Better project management

The same on my projects. You can get everything in but when it comes to archiving ist a disaster. We edit about 120 Projects a year. I cannot store every project on my fast editing hard disk. I have to consolidate the footage for later adaptions. But unfortionately it is not possible with Premiere Pro.

The archiving function should be improved. With smaller projects it works quite well, however, as soon as the projects get bigger and the most different kind of footage in the project is it sometimes does not work at all with consolidation. Clips are no longer trimmed correctly, I can't choose codecs for different source material. Why should I convert an H264 codec to a DNxHD just because the rest is converted to DNxHD.
It would be ideal if the existing codec were only cut with handles and not converted into another codec. H264 becomes H264, .r3d becomes .r3d, ProRes becomes ProRes (or ProRes becomes DNxHD or Cineform on PC) etc.

This feature would be very welcome as dumping all media into a single folder - as is currently the case - has led to a lot of confusion in transferring our projects.

It would be nice to see an estimation of time of the current Project Manager Export. Not only the bar moving.

Also it would be nice to have it exported in the background, while editing on another project. Or to have it exported via Media Encoder.

I'm very much on board with this. After Effects has this functionality, copying the folder structure you create within AE's project panel. My edit projects usually have WAY more assets, with WAY more bins. Being able to retain that organization in a collected project just makes sense.

Yes! This would also simplify fixing project structures provided by producers if we could just force it to match the structure provided in Premiere (which is best practice at our station anyway) that would solve a lot of problems for us

@anonymous - yes...that will be a great feature for archiving definitely!

Also, the copying files function would be amazing if you can copy the original files trimmed without having to transcode.