This baffled me for years. There is only one option in the Import Options dialogue - a box to tick Image Sequence on or off. Why in the world is it hidden?! One option is literally not taking any extra space from the import window, and it's ridiculous that I have to constantly first click another button to open the ONLY option in order to click it On or Off. Very time consuming and annoying when importing multiple different items. Can you please please make it always visible? In fact instead of the "Options" button there should just be this one simple tick box...

I've recently been encountering strange issues when Importing .MOV files into Premiere 2019 or 2020, where I'd get a "File Import Failure: We were unable to open the file on disk" error. The error also occurs in After Effects, with the same files.

The files import or open without issues in every other video application I tried (DaVinci Resolve, Quicktime Player, Screen (Videovillage.co), VLC, IINA, Telestream Switch Pro & FCP-X).

After a bit of sleuthing, I figured out that the problem only occurs with .MOV files that were specifically transcoded out of Apple Compressor 4.4.8 (which is the latest version for macOS Mojave, as of 2020-10-17), AND also contains audio tracks.

MOV files that were encoded as "Video Only" out of Compressor 4.4.8 did not exhibit the import issue. Nor did the same file transcoded out of Compressor 4.3.2 (last High Sierra compatible version) with audio tracks enabled.

.MOV files transcoded out of other apps (such as EditReady) did not have any issues importing.

Changing the video/audio codecs or encoding parameters used to transcode them did not have any effect on resolving the issue.

Files that were transcoded to non-MOV containers out of Compressor 4.4.8 (e.g. .MXF & .M4V) all import fine, regardless of the presence of audio tracks in the transcode.

Deleting the physical audio tracks from the suspect .MOV files (using Digital Rebellion's "QT Edit" tool) did enable them to be imported without error. But obviously, this isn't a particularly ideal workaround if your camera footage has sync'ed audio in it.

So there seems to be some sort of bug that is causing File Import failures with .MOV files that were specifically encoded with Compressor 4.4.8 .mov files, AND also contains audio tracks in them.

I was first inclined to submit this issue to Apple as a bug, but the fact that no other application on my Mac (macOS 10.14.6, with latest Apple "Pro Video Codecs" package installed) seems to have problems importing the same files makes me think it's an Adobe specific bug.

Here are my test files, if anyone wants to help investigate:

Master ProRes .mov file (this is the source master file I used for my testing): https://d.pr/v/k6DYrJ

Test Transcodes: https://d.pr/f/MGIgWv

The Test transcodes in the .zip file contain the transcodes of the Master ProRes file, in various formats, from Compressor 4.3.2, Compressor 4.4.8 and EditReady 2.6.5. All the Compressor 4.3.2 & EditReady encodes import into Premiere/AE without issue. The only encodes in the Compressor 4.4.8 folder that import fine are the .MXF and .M4V files, as well as the .MOV file which was encoded with the "Format" option set to "Video" instead of "Video and Audio"

My current workaround is to "rewrap" (NOT re-transcode) the offending files to new .MOV files, using EditReady. This appears to strip out whatever internal inconsistencies existed in the original transcode, and allows them to be imported into Premiere again.

Here's a link to an EditReady-rewrapped version of the "compressor4.4.8-Apple ProRes 422 LT.mov" file. This imports into Premiere without issues, and is not re-transcoded, either.

https://d.pr/v/I0DiZg

Media Browser is awful - to the point that I spent $300 on Davinci Resolve JUST to get a working media browser. I capture clips at 400Mbps which results in very large files. When editing I only want to capture the good takes from SD to my storage drive. So I need to view them. But Media Browser refreshes every second, which means I lose my place and have to scroll down over and over and over. At some point Media Browser will refresh before I get back to where I was. Also, the clip preview performance is very sluggish. So I bought Resolve - which for me is essentially a $300 media browser that only refreshes the folder I'm viewing when I tell it to, plays clips smoothly, and shows them in a window that's large enough to evaluate the video.

Hello, It would be great if there was a way to link folders on a computer or hard drive to bins in Premiere. That way, if I copied a photo or video clip into my folder on my hard drive labeled "Day 1_Footage" (for example) then it would be great if (assuming I already imported that folder from my hard drive into my Premiere project window as a new bin) that footage or photo automatically imported into that given bin. If I add a new photo into my hard drive folder titled "Photos" then it would automatically update the bin in Premiere also labeled "Photos" as long as I specify ahead of time that I want them linked. This would save time if we didn't have to manually import all assets after we already placed them in our specified hard drive folders.
Thank you.