• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Import folder and sub-folders

  Posted by Dustin Parsons on March 9, 2012 at 2:32 am

  I have a folder for my sound effects called SFX and inside that folder there are sub-folders like, “Vehicles” “People” “Animals” etc… and inside those folders are more sub-folders.

  I would like to be able to import the SFX folder so that it maintains it’s subfolders in Premiere Pro but every time I try it only imports the SFX folder and puts all the sound effects in that bin, there are no sub-folders.

  Any advice on how I can achieve this is greatly appreciated. Thank you

  Reinhardt Brönner replied 12 years, 7 months ago 6 Members · 7 Replies
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  Ann Bens

  March 9, 2012 at 5:03 pm

  You will have to import all the folders and subfolders separately.

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  Dustin Parsons

  March 9, 2012 at 6:39 pm

  Ouch… that’s terrible.
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  Paul Neumann

  March 10, 2012 at 4:45 am

  Make one folder called SFX and then import all your subfolders to it. Do ’em all at once.
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  Jeff Greenberg

  March 10, 2012 at 2:20 pm

  Hopefully you have After effects.

  Import your clip/bin/folder structure to AE.

  AE will retain the folder structure.

  Select all. Copy.

  Paste into Premiere Pro.

  Ugly workaround, but it does work.

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  Dustin Parsons

  March 12, 2012 at 7:20 pm

  Thanks Jeff! You’re right, it’s not pretty but it works.
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  Fred Nelson

  July 25, 2013 at 9:13 pm

  Just tried this. One EXTREME drawback – take heed.

  You cannot have BOTH subfolders AND uncategorized individual files inside of your main folder. If you do, copying and pasting from AE to Premiere will take all of the individual files and toss them inside one of the subfolders.

  For instance: I have a folder called “Abraham Lincoln”. Inside this folder:

  – Sub-folder: 1st inaugural
  – Sub-folder: 2nd inaugural
  – Sub-folder: 1860 Election
  – Sub-folder: 1864 Elections
  – 7 graphics (not categorized into sub-folders)

  It maintained the structure from the Finder when I imported it into AE.

  But when I copied this and pasted over to Premiere, I got the 4 subfolders just fine. But the 7 individual files had been moved into the last sub-folder (1864 Elections).

  Don’t get me wrong; I appreciate the advice. It does save alot of work. But it is not applicable if you don’t have EVERYTHING in a sub-folder.

  Come on, Adobe. There’s been enough comments on this all over the web. Time for a fix.
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  Reinhardt Brönner

  October 2, 2013 at 10:09 am

  Hi! I had the same problem. I found out if you use Adobe bridge to import to premiere it works.

  If you have footage in a folder ex: zoom out footage, but you have a lot of sub folders in that specific folder.

  Create one folder in Premiere ex: Zoom out Footage.
  Drag all the sub folders from bridge into premiere.

  Works 100%

  Thanks GUYS!

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