Re: How to see codec of a file in media browser

You are finding out what an absolute crap sandwich Premiere is when it comes to media management. Media Browser is a joke. A hack. An embarssment. But Adobe "don't care". They just cash your subscription checks and pile on stat sheet features without ever doing any core improvements that true professional editors need.

Adobe recommends Media Browser as  THE WAY to bring assets into Premiere. Yet, you cannot even see the basics about clips, this gets even worse if you pulling assets from other active or archived Premiered projects. In that case you cannot even seen info like time code or other standard clip headings. TIME CODE is pretty imporat in our biz. Why not just have the ability to see custom bin views. (which are also a disaster).

If you decide to ingest these files then be prepared for all sorts of zannies like having your clip name reset. This is due to hack upon hack being layered on top of Premiere's rats nest of dynamic linking (slow) and reliance on helping applications and "scripts" that invoke Media Encoder batch processing even just to move a file. Metadata tracking by XMP is also super goofy. 

The hits just keep on coming. If you are unfortuante enough to use subclips Premiere doesn't even understand their relation to master clips, not while editing, and not in media management. So unless you are super careful your will get duplicate and file name incremmented master clip MEDIA for each subclip ingested from another project. Even worse issues if you import vs ingest. This has now changed your subclip's link to  its orginal archived source media. THANKS ADOBE. 

Subclips are very important to our edit process. They are foundational to managing selects pulled from larger clips and organizing projects. Our team of editors scattered worldwide switched to Adobe from Avid about 4 years ago. For all its issues, Media Composer at least gets media management right. It is as if Adobe doesn't understand the traditional editing process or need for flexibility at all.

Work arounds involved opening two projects and importing is even worse. I am once again talking about being able to move clips and subclips from other logged projects into a different active projects. Forget deleting what you don't want after you move it all to bring it back online. Premiere doesn't understand subclips relations to master media enough to prevent you from deleting everything. Avid has "select media relatives" and the ability to invert that selection to delete or find things related to each other. That ain't a great solution either. You should not have to invoke such things to 

There are other embarassing issues with media management and they will get worse until Adobe solves them via core functionality rather than their approach now. Productions and Teams feels like the same messy patchwork. We work mostly off of local drives and vast library of 100s of offline archive drives of older projects and camera media. 

And I make sure to tell the Adobe folks emailling nearly everyday to buy more services that until Adobe fixes this stuff, no more new services. I also tell the Adobe folks that I caution others about switching to Premiere and the company's general lack of ability to remedey an aging application. Our photography side of the business has already abandoned the mess Photoshop has become. And we don't miss a beat telling others to do the same.

Bottom line is Adobe doesn't need our money. They know it. They are over critical mass. So they don't care about the issues of certain smaller customers. Another sucker right behind us. I have been complaining about this stuff for 3 years. 

There are a couple of corporate, staffing, and other reasons we made the switch to Adobe Creative Shroud. But you can bet we are looking at how to get off it. It is the opposite of the Avid situation. If we can't manage our media properly then nothing else matters.