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How come premier doesn’t import subfolder?
I’m editing weddings. I’ll have one big folder first then in that folder I’ll have subfolders such as Pre-Ceremony, Ceremony, and Reception. If I import the project folder, it doesn’t import the subfolder (pre-ceremony, ceremony, and reception).
Why is that?
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Sorry to not have an answer but this is something I find annoying as well.
I spend a lot of time organising projects at the Finder level so it would be nice if premiere kept the folder structure when you import the master older.Should you really have to drag every folder in individually in this day and age?
I am enjoying working on pp but these are the little niggles that I feel need to be eradicated.
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Just bring in all the folders individually to Premiere Pro and it will create a Bin for each folder.
If you want them all to remain in a single folder, move all the Bins into the Main Bin.
Personally, I prefer importing each folder individually as they remain individual bins, that makes for easier workflow for me.
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We have identified this as something our users would like us to fix. We plan to…Soon…
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Awesome, it’s the little things that count.
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Just another reason to use Prelude. Put bin inside bin inside bin as much as you like and send over to PPro with that folder structure intact.
You can make it even easier than importing a bunch and sorting by just having the bin you’re targeting highlighted when you select and ingest your clips. They’ll go right into that bin. When you need them just right click and “Send to PPro”.
And while you’re there you can tag and keyword it all up…or not.
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Interesting, I just got Adobe CC so haven’t worked with prelude before. What is prelude exactly?
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[Victor Nguyen] “Why is that?”
Good question! Unfortunately there’s not a good answer. Coming from FCP7 which could import sub-folders and was released around 5 years ago you’d think any modern NLE would have this feature – Adobe certainly has had ample time to implement it.
Here’s a workaround though:
• Import the top folder into After Effects – this will keep subfolders/file heir achy intact
• Copy and paste the top folder from After Effects into Premiere ProSucks that we have to use a workaround for something that should be standard.
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Just use Prelude.
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We just revealed that we will be supporting this.
Cheers
Dave
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David McGavran, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Senior Engineering Manager Adobe Premiere Pro
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I use Prelude as an ingesting program for video files. It is like lightroom, but for video.
In our department, we have several different types of cameras that we use, and each camera uses a different codec (GoPro Hero 3, Sony HVR-V1U, and a JVC GY-650). I use Prelude to import all of my videos, convert them to the same codec for editing, and automatically name them. You can also add metadata to your files that will come in handy later on.
While it takes a longer to ingest my footage, it saves me time in the long run when it comes to editing.
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