I paid for a 3rd party plug in for this function. It's called Watchtower from nightsoftheeditingtable. Saved me hours if not days just trying to organise things properly.

I don't get how it can be this hard to implement this change in Premiere - it seems like it would be LESS WORK for premiere to just accept the folder structures as they are on the drive rather than try to consolidate everything on its own, often times incorrectly from an organizational standpoint.

But then again this is what you get when you have programmers solve problems without understanding the workflow behind it.

For those of us who are producing a lot of content on a regular base in a free lance way or working at scale in a production environment that process has been ironed out. Standardization helps streamline workflow to focus on the creative work. So having a placeholder system to then populate as the project progresses rather than having the media files already in hand prior to setting up the project directory / bin foldering system seems like an absolute no brainer. When can we expect this minor feature update yet powerful productivity booster to be implemented in the road map?

I can't help but wonder if there has to be a minimum number of votes and comments before this gets prioritized for the roadmap? Does anyone have a point of contact on the inside?

At some times you just have to question yourself if you really want to continue using Adobe products. I really don't get how this problem exists for years and no-one responds ...!

Bumping this again since it's been 3 years -- can someone from Adobe please respond? Is this being addressed? Preserving empty folder structures for organization is a critical tool for any assistant editor.

This is critical. I am building out course content with a very intentional folder structure and naming convention to handle the volume of videos being produced. I am seeing the subfolder structure get eliminated on import. Right now it appears it only goes 1 folder layer deep. So if my structure has 2 or 3 layers deep all the assets anywhere inside get scanned for and dumped up on the 1st folder level. VERY CONFUSING and VERY DISORIENTING while in production with the team. We've had to resort to manually dragging folder by folder into premiere to rebuild the structure which is a huge time suck when handling the volume of content in production.

Just came to request this feature and realized I already did... two and a half years ago. Has this been addressed? The ability to maintain folder structures is crucial to any larger scale television or film production.

Not only that, but If I have Folder B with one file inside folder A with no files, don't merge it with Folder B with files inside Folder C with no files and place it on the root tree and not import those folders! How am I supposed to find the footage I placed when I can't find it since it was "moved" (and the search function is broken as well).