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ClintonLugert
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August 23, 2017
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Importing only video clips from within subfolders

  • August 23, 2017
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// Hey guys,

I need some help & can't seem to find it elsewhere. Thank you in advance for your brain power.

A client has handed me 28TB of archival media for me to painfully sort through for a video edit. The problem is, each folder has .pdfs, spreadsheets, .psds, after effects source files, etc within all of these subfolders.

I want to get just the video so I can start logging content of shots. I thought I could use Spotlight and grab only video files - no luck. I thought I could use Prelude and it sorta works, but not for logging. Then when I try good old Premiere it goes bonkers over all the other project files within their archive.

Could you help me devise the best way to filter just the video files into my import bin?

Is there a way to show subfolder content so I could sort by type?

Note: I don't have the storage to ingest and move the files to another set of drives cause wow that's a lot of HDDs.

Thank you!

  - Clint

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excited_Genie16B8
Legend
August 23, 2017

Use the Media Browser to dig into the folders.  It won't show you files that can't be imported.

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Meg The Dog
Inspiring
August 23, 2017

You mentioned Spotlight, are you Mac based?

If so, open the subfolder up in the finder and switch to the list view. One of the columns will be "Kind" and you can click on the column title to sort the display so that all the video files are grouped together.

You can then select and drag those files into the Premier Pro Project Panel (and into a bin, one would assume) to import them.

MtD

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ClintonLugertAuthor
Participant
August 23, 2017

I am Mac based, but there are hundreds of subfolders, so i'm trying to cut through those.

Right now it's looking like using Adobe Bridge, viewing items in subfolders, and then filtering by file type is the best way to get only videos snatched out of there and into Premiere.

If anyone else has a better plan, I'd love to hear it!

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