Trying to rebuild an existing project from scratch without duplicate media clips.

Question

I’m running premiere pro 25.6.4 on a Mac mini M4.

I’ve been working on a documentary film for a little over a year and had to import other editors sequences. I was not able to bring them in without also having all of the duplicate media and bins brought in as well. I used media browser to import them and uncheck all of the appropriate boxes and it never made a difference…the duplicates and bins have shown up every single time.

Consolidate duplicates doesn’t work. It literally doesn’t do anything at all except wonder if in losing my mind.

So, I’m willing to rebuild my project from scratch, but everything I try still brings in duplicates. I don’t understand why this is so broken. My current project is starting to lag due to its file size from all of the unnecessary extra media and bins.

can anyone please tell me how I can import a sequence without also bringing in duplicate files? Or can someone explain why consolidate duplicates isn’t working and how I can get it to work?

mattchristensen1 · Answer

​@TZH2025I’m sorry for the frustration. The thing to know is that when you see “duplicates” in Premiere, it’s referring to exact duplicates, like in situations where within one project a clip was duplicated multiple times. If instead you have clips imported to Project A, and then separately import those clips into Project B, then you send a sequence between them, Premiere will not consider those duplicates, because the clips were generated in separate projects.All of that said, I think you might be best served by working in a Production, which is a different project paradigm designed for editorial teams and/or large projects. Even if you’re the only editor on the project, you can still have some benefit from using a production, especially if you are continuing to edit for a long time and the project will keep growing.A good place to start is read Chapter 6 “Working with Productions”of the Best Practices Guide. You can find it here as a PDF: http://adobe.ly/PremiereProGuide (click Get File to download it).You can also search YouTube for some great tutorials and deep dives on using Productions in Premiere. Karl Soule has a great video series on it, and this video is about migrating a single project to a production:

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