Is there a simple way of only importing video files into Elements Organiser?

Thanks for the tips. LR obviously works for you as you seem to be more used to including video in your workflow.

I do not use much video and wanted to trawl my discs for all videos - which are mainly family/holiday snippets - to draw them together in a single catalogue, without mixing in stills or audio, to then decide how to edit them for future viewing.

Neither LR or Elements Catalogue allow you to search for a specific file or media type to import. LR does a better job because you can at least sort before hitting the import button so uncheck all the media types you don't want.

I have now done what I set out to do by importing everything into an Elements Catalogue, then removing all but the movies. Then a tidy up followed to remove videos that were not mine but in application directories, etc.

For comparision I then imported the catalogue to Lightroom.

LR Catalogue is much faster than Elements Organiser and, as you say, some minor corrections can be made on-the-fly, something Organiser cannot do.

Most formats do play smoothly, but some odd ones from various older digital compacts (3gp for example) struggles to play in LR.

Going back to my original point, I just thought the whole process could be simplified if there was an opportunity to filter file/media types from at the start of the search/import, rather than having to remove items later.

Thanks again.

The Lightroom Catologue shows the videos, yes, but Develop does not support videos and no option to open in an editor (now Premiere Elements for me) from the gallery.

Furthermore, playback in Lightroom for some formats appears glitchy compared to the same file which plays smoothly via VLC or another media player.

Good Tip whsprague

I am quite organised in Lightroom, using dates to organise imports etc. and I too, use some of the import options to copy rather than move, and so on. However, LR it doesn't really handle videos very well, so I was hoping to use the Elements Organiser just for Videos so I can do something with all those videos scattered around my hard disks in Premiere Elements.

I may go back over my LR Catalogues and do as you suggest.

Organiser has found 138,000 media files on my disks so it may be a big job!

Thanks John.

Yes, you can restrict by folder, but if the folder/sub-folders contain mixed media, as is the case for an import from a digital camera, everything is catalogued. Furthermore, that assumes you know where each and every video is stored!

I am currently importing everything and will then see if i can create a video only view.

It still seems odd that you cannot filter effectovely by file-type at the import stage.