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Importing folders with subfolders does not work in CS6?

Sep 5, 2012 9:00 AM

I've been working with Final Cut Pro for years, and at the beginning of each project I would always set up a project folder on my drive with subfolders for my audio, images, PSD (a subfolder of images), etc. I would then drag all of my content into the folders and subfolders and then drag the main folder into the Browser of Final Cut and it would import it with the same structure using bins. I just tried this in CS6 and it imported the main folder as a bin, though it dumped the content of the subfolders inside the main folder/bin. So I would now have to recreate the folder/bin structure that I setup in my initial project folder on my drive if I wanted everything to be organized the same way.

 

I always thought of this as a good workflow for starting and working on a project. Is there anyway to import a folder with lots of other folders into CS6 and have it keep that structure after import?

 

Thanks.

1617 Views   8 Replies   Latest reply: jstrawn, Jan 24, 2013 2:30 PM
 
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  • jstrawn
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    1. jstrawn,
    Sep 5, 2012 10:50 AM   in reply to mediafred
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    There is no way to 'automatically import folder structure with media' as you request. But I agree it would be a good workflow to start with and would save some work for people like us who like to arrange all their assets on the os before importing them int Prpro. Please submit a feature request for this.

     
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  • Ann Bens
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    2. Ann Bens,
    Sep 5, 2012 11:50 AM   in reply to mediafred
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    There is a workaround (if you have AE) to get the folder structure in Premiere.

    Import all folder/subfolder etc into After Effects

    Select all, copy and paste into Premiere.

     

    http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

     
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  • mediafred
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    3. mediafred,
    Sep 5, 2012 12:22 PM   in reply to Ann Bens
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    I'm just switching to Premiere and like everything so far except this. I can't believe this is not part of PP. I always work off of an external drive in Final Cut Pro and setup my project folder with all of my media before importing it.

     

    1. What is the Premiere Pro way of setting up a project folder? Do you just dump a bunch of files into a folder on a drive and start importing them and then sort them into bins once in Premiere?

    2. After you already started working on a project and you need to bring in new media, do you copy those new media files to your main project folder, and from there import them into Premiere? Or is there a better way to do this?

     

    Thanks.

     
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  • jstrawn
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    4. jstrawn,
    Sep 5, 2012 12:58 PM   in reply to mediafred
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    1. There is no absolute workflow or this. I create bins names in a way that is logical for that prject 'Video, Audio, Graphics... etc) and then import into those bins. or, if you name the media folders that way and import the folders it will inherit the correct name. It just wont get all of it's sub folders and keep the media organized within them.

     

    2. I open the bin which corresponds to the new media I want and then import directly into it. Or you could just drag it in after the import. Either way, there is some organizational work to do when you start and as long as you go along. But there would also be some work at thr OS level if even if we did import all subfolders as they live on the OS.

     
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    5. bernk,
    Dec 21, 2012 12:47 AM   in reply to jstrawn
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    There is a way to import organized media!

     

    1. In Media Browser switch to directory view using the second icon to the left of the scale slider at the bottom of the window
    2. Navigate to the folder containing all of your orgaized media, and open it
    3. Select all of your media folders with cmd-a (ctrl-a on Windows)
    4. Drag and hover the folders over the Project tab until it becomes visible, and drop them into your project

     

    Hope that helps someone.

     
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    6. makilex,
    Jan 15, 2013 11:34 PM   in reply to bernk
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    You can also drag from a Finder window (on the Mac) but it can only import one level of folders, so make sure you re-create the rest of your folder structure as bins first.

    I had to import 5 days of 4-track audio recordings and it just kept bundling the tracks from the same day in a single folder, which was too bad, since they were all named 1.wav, 2.wav etc.

    So I made bins for the days and just dragged all the file folders from each day into the day bins from the Finder window. Presto!

     
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  • Steven L. Gotz
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    7. Steven L. Gotz,
    Jan 16, 2013 6:18 AM   in reply to makilex
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    I do it the way that bernk suggested.

     

    I have a project that I use as a starter for other projects. Actually, I have a few different starter projects. You might find it handy to have one for personal videos, another for television commercials, another for weddings. Whatever. That project has all of my logo stuff, some sequences that have video or audio that have effects or transitions applied to them that I can copy and paste attributes over to clips in the new project, things like that. Black video, white mattes. That sort of thing.

     

    What I do not have in the project is any reference to my video or audio directories.

     

    I copy that entire directory structure over to a new location and give it a proper new name. Then I rename the project in the top level folder and open the project.

     

    That leaves me with everything I need except the items that are specific to the new project. Then I just use the Media Browser to bring in those folders as bins. Since I keep my audio and video on a different drive, this works out well for me.

     
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  • jstrawn
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    8. jstrawn,
    Jan 24, 2013 2:30 PM   in reply to Steven L. Gotz
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    Yes, that was a good suggestion by bernk. I had forgotten about that. As a bonus, importing via the media browser eliminates other problems too... mainly having to do with folder-dependent media.

     
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