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September 12, 2025

Beta Import imported the wrong folder

  • September 12, 2025
  • 1 reply
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Steps to reproduce:
For today's fun and games, I created a new project, and the Import screen popped up.  I thought I had that bypassed, but I guess an update reset that preference.

 

Anyway I thought, "Ok, I'll use that interface."  So I navigated to the folder with the footage I wanted to import, selected it all and clicked "Import."

 

Now first of all I just wanted to import the footage into a bin. Instead I got a timeline full of footage, all jumbled in the wrong order, and since some of the footage was in different time bases and resolutions, I can't use the timeline. Annoying, but I can delete that, so that's not the real problem.

 

The real problem is, it was footage from the wrong folder!

 

The project fils is in Root>Client>2025>Edit.  The files I requested were in Root>Client>2025>Shoot>Footage.  The files I got were from in Root>Client.

 

It appears the importer doesn't work if footage is in other folders. But why'd it pull footage from the root?
 
System info
    Application: Premiere Pro (Beta) v25.6.0.63
    OS: Windows v10.0.26100, RAM: 63.79 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 16

1 reply

R Neil Haugen
Legend
September 15, 2025

The wrong folder thing is odd, certainly.

 

As to the other, check the options to the right side of the import page. Probably those were set to do exactly as happened to you. They typically are 'sticky', so once you turn them off, they stay off.

 

A couple of the options, like being able to copy to a different drive and do checksum fdile validation testing, are actually handy for a real "ingestion" workflow from card, similar to the way Prelude used to work.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...