Feature Request– Show Media Usage in Project Panel across all Production Projects
Productions workflow offers many advantages, but still has a long way to go, and simply is overly complicated, or comes up short in a lot of ways versus using just one Project File per project. One simple feature I'd like to see in Productions is the following:
In a regular project file, if you click on a piece of media in the Project Panel, it will show in the Preview Area at the top (if it's turned on) if the selected piece of media is present in any sequences, and you can even click a drop-down list and select any instance of that media in any sequence.
This functionality is lost in the productions workflow. Unless a piece of media sits in the same project as a sequence that contains it, this dialogue comes up and it seems like there is no instance of that media being used. This is hugely helpful in many ways, but with Productions encouraging the siloing of media to one project and sequences to others, we lose this very helpful functionality.
For example – I want to use a song in a scene of a film. I'm in my music project file, and I know several songs in this project file are used in sequences throughout the film, but I can't tell which ones any more unless I manually go through each project that contains a sequence (of which there are dozens) and manually scan the sequence and write down which songs are being used. It would be WAY more helpful to click on a piece of media, and have Premiere tell mein the Preview Area if/when that media is used somewhere throughout my sprawling Production, not just the project file the media sits within.
The same for SFX or B-Roll shots – whatever the case.
In the end, I'm hoping Productions workflows become a no-brainer, but as exemplified by the above, I have to always way the functionality gains vs the losses. Right now, the scales are too evenly balanced.
