Maintain folder structures on import
Add an option to preserve empty folder structures on import!
Often I or an assistant editor will create a folder structure in the finder with empty folders to be populated with media later on in the production workflow (i.e. Final mix stems, color files, graphics). Currently if you import empty folders or folders with only one item in them, those empty folders disappear on import and the single item that was inside them is left outside any folder. This prevents planning and proper organization, and I'm not sure what the benefit of it is? Fewer folders? But I wanted those, that's why I made them.
Just leave the folder structures as they are, don't change them. If some users want an option to "automatically remove empty folders on import" then add that, but don't make removing them the default.
Importing empty folder structures is an essential organizational tool for any medium to large scale professional production. I made this same request in May of 2018 and have never gotten a response or seen it addressed, I really I hope I do this time!
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David A Ells
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I just upgraded myself from "important" to "critical." I'm working on a large project right now and I can feel the hours of wasted time building up because of this change in Premiere.
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jakob degen
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I've come from Version 22.3.1 to 22.6.2 and all the work I've put into organizing and structuring my footage is for nothing. I'm a professional earning my living with Premiere and editing.
I'd loosing A LOT of time right now, so I'm going back to version 22.3.1
PLEASE ADOBE make Premiere PRO again. Right now it's becoming less and less useable for professionals! -
Rob Tyler
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Typical Adobe - does not address any user issues.
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Ben Doyle
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Please!
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Dan Pearce
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Yep, a constant annoyance on each and every project. Please fix
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dakota giglio
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This NEEDS to be addressed. Media professionals need this.
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Aaron Roberts
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Seriously WTF is this nonsense? We take time to organize our footage to save time in the edit and then I have to do it twice? Are you for real?
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Jude McAuley
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When you have hundreds of folders from hundreds of shoots across multiple systems, this is critical to management.
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anthony chirco
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still having this issue on Aug 20 2022 .. how hard can it be to fix?
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Joshua Fong
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Having to manually recreate folders inside Premiere that I already created in the Finder is a waste of time and completely pointless. Folders should be imported when we import them. Editors don't need to be second-guessed by the software.
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Henry Cakebread
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When I import a whole shoot into a project which is organised with different card and camera names, Premiere clears it all out so I only have XDROOT or M4ROOT folders with no idea which camera it is unless I manually re-apply all the folder names. I have gone back to v22.2 which is the last time I was able to import the whole folder structures and can't justify updating until this is sorted.
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yoav biran
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They still didn't solve this and its a disgrace, I have folders that contain card names and premier just delete it. its a scandal.
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James Lucas
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This behavior is really annoying and needs to be fixed. Just more unprofessionalism of this program.
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David Lawrence
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This is absolutely ridiculous. WTF Adobe? Please fix this now!
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Jacob Weber
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Please fix this. It’s pretty critical to organizing projects for many editors.
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Anthony Rizzuto
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Argh...was just forced to update creative cloud to collaborate with a new editor and now to find this ridiculous behavior that ruins all of the systems we have with our project organisation and external editors. Where can we partition for a 'feature reinstatement'??
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MIchael McSwain
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Just adding my voice to this. I too miss being able to transfer my folder structure from my file browser into Premiere. PLEASE FIX!!! It wasn't broken!
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Kyle Dubiel
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What a ridiculous oversight. Yet another unnecessary inconvenience caused by adobe's absurd overreach in the supposed continued transformation of the program.
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Samuel Norman
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This is absolutely ridiculous, why has this feature dissapeared? Now we have to recreate folder structures within premiere? Why! As everyone else has said, add this as an option, not as deafult, unless you enjoy wasting creators time.
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Daniel Armstrong
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it's actually insane that Premiere doesn't do this already. I regularly import folders with only 1 item in them because i plan on populating that folder in premiere with things like adjustment layers, or things from other projects.
ADOBE - if i drag a folder into premiere, i want that folder to be in premiere. otherwise i would have just selected the files.