We have several users of BRAW Studio experiencing timeline shift after moving their projects between computers. Sometimes it even goes back to the first frame.

If this also happens to you please tell your story in Adobe Community Forums : https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro/cc-2020-timeline-clips-shifts-after-moving-project-relocating-relinking/m-p/10923880

Happens only with CC 2020 (both 14.0.0 and 14.0.1), both OSX and Windows, all framerate (23.96 fps and 25 fps for example).
Apparently happens with others formats than .braw : https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro/linking-media-losing-in-and-out-points/td-p/10922669 "I have this problem on every file type I have tried; R3D, BRAW and CRAW"
Attached is a zip with the two .prproj from a user editing with .braw and you can see what's changing inside <MediaFrameRate> and <TimecodeFormat>, also the timecode changes from 01:43:25:03 to 01:43:31:16000

Please investigate and fix this issue it is very annoying and preventing users to edit in good conditions with Premiere Pro it is quite urgent

Thanks,
Antoine

Please include the option to retain folder structure when managing a project via the Premiere Dialogue.

We go through great efforts to maintain an organized project, both within Premiere but also at the Windows Explorer level. It's incredibly frustrating that if we try to move a project, archive a project or just generally manage the project that Premiere takes all the files and dumps them in a messy pile in one folder.

We've stopped using it entirely, instead opting to copy assets manually and re-linking the project to the assets. It's a tedious process and doesn't allow for trimming or transcoding.

Sometimes one doesn't merely want to switch off the proxies, but actually destroy the relationship between the clips in premiere and those proxy files.

If you simply move or delete those files, Premiere freaks out about it and tells you it can't find them every time you open a project. There's no way to tell it not to expect them even after clicking 'offline all' for a given session.

Also, the proxies REALLY mess up the project manager so until that can be fixed, one way around that would be remove their existence from a project altogether so the project manager can't be confused by them.

I desperately wished Premiere's "Collect Files and Copy to New Location" feature would have an option to preserve the folder structure of the original files when copying them to the Destination Path.

Unfortunately tapeless workflows have made proper media management practices a total nightmare, especially when working with outside editors or clients who do not have sensible media management systems in place. This often results in media with duplicate filenames, etc., and as a conformist/colorist, I need to be able to determine the type of media (original camera format, shoot date, proxy/original transcode status etc) based on the information in the original folder paths the media was located in.

But if you "Collect Files" on a sequence, Premiere will just dump all the files from that sequence into a single folder without the original source paths. So you lose all references to where that media originally came from, which is important information to know for both troubleshooting and many other tasks.

Right now, I will either use Davinci Resolve (whose Media Management tool allows you to collect media while preserving original source paths), or a custom command-line shell script which does the same thing based on an XML export of the timeline. However, I hate having to make Premiere editors have to download, install and learn how to use Davinci Resolve just for this simple task. If you were able to do this, simply by ticking a checkbox in the Project Manager window, that would be a huge workflow win!

If you have proxy files in a project and attempt to use the project manager and the transcode and consolidate function a lot of bizarre and unexpected behaviour occurs.

I recently found I could improve the results by making a project including only the sequence I intended to transcode and consolidate and nothing else, because despite being able to choose such an option in the project manager, it will ignore that choice and transcode every single clip in the project instead, hence having to make a project where there are no other clips than those in the sequence.

This almost worked, however for some infuriating reason after I succesfully used the project manager to trim (with handles) and transcode all the clips in the sequence, it went ahead and copied all the proxies of all of the clips that it just transcoded and to make matters worse it decided to copy the ENTIRE proxy file for each such clip, not just a trimmed section of what's used in the timeline. This massively increased the space it consumed and the time it took and now leaves me with a bunch of useless proxy files I have to somehow separate and deal with in the output folder.

Can the project manager please be improved to deal with proxy material properly, including the ability to explicitly tell it not to use it at all and not include it in any consolidating or transcoding functions?

Furthermore can the project manager be fixed so that when one specifies a SEQUENCE to be project managed as opposed to the entire project, that that is what actually happens? This might just be because of the proxy files, perhaps it works as expected when they aren't present but in my experience, before I took the step of specifically making a new project that ONLY HAS THE ONE SEQUENCE, it decided to transcode every single clip in the project, untrimmed. It also did this using the proxy files as well and completely ignored the original rushes.

For the last few months, I've been asked to work from home from time to time due to the pandemic.

I have used the Project Manager to copy an edit in progress from our network storage server to my PC's internal hard drive. It's a really great tool that saves alot of time...sometimes.

A rather large project I am doing color work on - the project manager finished succesfully with no errors. I got home with my project, fired up PP and opened the project.

To my suprise there was footage in the wrong places on the timeline and some files didn't even copy over.

I had the 'danger bars' on the timeline as well as missing audio. About 50GB of files didn't make it.

Long story short, we shoot with multiple cameras on multiple days. Some cameras produce random-like filenames, others use sequential filenames like 'C0001.MXF, C0002.MXF' etc..

But when Premiere copies the files over to your designated save location, it doesn't bother to put them in subfolders. It places all the footage in the root of your save location.

Guess what happens when you have multiple 'C0001.MXF' filenames.....yup, you only get one.

And the project finds it upon opening up, and places it on the 1st instance on your timeline.

Camera guys like to format the cards on camera, and that reverts the sequence numbers back to C0001.

So you end up with many files with the same filename.

So using this tool for some projects is not safe, you think you might have a backup, or a copy to use to edit... nope. You only got the 1st file of that duplicate filename.

I would think this could be easily solved with some sort of folder management, if the original file was in a folder named 'Day 1 - Camera A', then why wouldn't it be like that in the copied location?

So now I can't trust the tool to collect only the files I need, I have to copy the whole 500GB of files - even if I only need 100GB of them for the edit.

Can this please be addressed?