something similar to AMA linking in premiere

[John Pale]

[jo gali] “Is there a way to link my footage to my drive instead of importing them all in premiere? I work with hours and hours of footage and takes way too long to import. AMA linking is something AVID does but wondering if premiere has this ability as well.

Thanks”

Import in Premiere is the same thing as AMA in Avid. When you import in Avid, it creates new media. When you import in Premiere, all it does is link to the media.

Premiere does not create new media unless you use the Ingest option, which can be configured to transcode your media to a mezzanine codec.