Watch folders with subfolders

Funnily enough its now 2025 and im still looking at how to do this! @EckiAME any news?

Update on this?? 

This would be an amazing addition to Media Encoder... as well as the ability to recreate the subfolder structures in the output directory. 

If this was possible, then we could setup Media Encoder on a transcode machine in our server room watching a network location... and then AEs and Editors can drop in large batches of camera cards into the watchfolder to handle edit and web proxies without tying up resources on their local station. 

See my answer above.

Any news on this?

Usually I am copying the whole memory card of the camera to a drive with checksum verification.

I would like to have a watchfolder transcode all my new video files.

But the watchfolder does not detect new files to process as they are "hidden" in a subfolder like "DCIM".

Is it possible to process all files that are copied to the watchfolder, even when they are in new subfolders?

We have added a feature request with a link to this forum thread. I will post here as soon as we have news for you. Thanks for your patience.

Is there any updates on an overhaul of the watch folders?

Watchfolders accessing subfolders would be huge for large scale project exports that need multiple itterations of videos in different video formats. Allowing the option to specify video formats per subfolder would be an incredible feature. Also being able split a single video export apart into two different formats would be useful. Ex. Send video to watch folder (preset to export one 480p and one 1080p version)-> 480p sent to one folder and 1080p sent to another.

I have added all your suggestions to a feature request and we will discuss this in the team. Thanks for all your ideas!

Are there any news regarding this topic?