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xxxx18565915
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January 2, 2017
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watch folder?

  • January 2, 2017
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Is there a kind of watch folder? I need a folder/bin which automatically updates when I put a new file in the folder and adds its automatically to the bin which is watched.

Second. Is there an option to double click on a clip in a bin and I see the clip fullscreen?

    Correct answer R Neil Haugen

    You can setup watch folders in Adobe Media Encoder (AME) with transcode presests such that drop media in, it auto-transcodes and applies any renaming you might wish exporting to a particular folder you set.

    As far as PrPro ... I can't think of anything. Double clicking on a clip brings it up in the source monitor, at whatever size you have the source monitor set at the moment ... which I don't think is what you're asking exactly either.

    Neil

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    Josh_Wallace
    Participant
    February 12, 2018

    This would be such a useful feature. I add to folders of time-lapse and stock footage on my hard drives over time and import those folders into various projects to use as B-Roll etc. But having to manually update the Bins when new clip are added into the source folders on my drives is a ball ache.

    Something akin to the way bins/folders works in Lightroom would be amazing in PP. The way you have the ability to Synchronise a Lightroom bin based on a folder of media on a drive and Lightroom scans the folder and updates with fresh media etc.

    Such a time saver and great way to keep your media and projects organised.

      R Neil Haugen
      R Neil Haugen
      Legend
      February 12, 2018

      I can see for your work that would be useful, and possibly for some others. So, please file a Feature Request ...

      Adobe Bug Report /Feature Request form: https://www.adobe.com/go/wish

      (They never respond to postings, but all filed reports are collated and distributed to all relevant managerial types, so they are seen.)

      Realistically, PrPro and Lightrooom ... and in general, video & stills ... are such different 'beasts' for most workflows, that there aren't that many that would be interested in this. I think there might be more horrified about it, unless they had a preference to lock this down so it would NEVER ever happen in their projects. For over 40 years now, our income has been from our portrait studio. My wife and I both shoot, and we started with Lightroom about the "0.8 public beta" version.

      My adding some video five years back was an enormous eye-opener. They both use cameras to make images, and ... that's about as far as they go together. As much of what I do shoot in video could have large chunks reused as b-roll in other things, I'd love it if say Prelude was the vid equiv of Lightroom, full database & such. Ain't happnin', baby. Not many video pros are interested at all.

      So ... PrPro has only a small database for keeping dibs on assets within a project's bins. And bins are a theoretical device for organizing within PrPro, and don't have anything to do with folders on discs. As far as PrPro is concerned. There are ways you can import folder structures into bins, but few use that process.

      Neil

      Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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      excited_Genie16B8
      Legend
      January 2, 2017

      Watch Folders are not available for Premiere Pro.  While editing, you will have to manually add any new clips to the project's bins.

        Bill Gehrke
        Bill Gehrke
        Inspiring
        January 2, 2017

        xxxx18565915 wrote:

        Second. Is there an option to double click on a clip in a bin and I see the clip fullscreen?

        When you double click on the icon of a clip in the Project Window, it opens in the Source Window, then do a Ctrl + ` (the key in front of 1) and you get a full screen image and then hit the space bar to play it.  That Ctrl + ` also works in the Program Window so you can easily check the timeline full screen.

        R Neil Haugen
        R Neil HaugenCorrect answer
        Legend
        January 2, 2017

        You can setup watch folders in Adobe Media Encoder (AME) with transcode presests such that drop media in, it auto-transcodes and applies any renaming you might wish exporting to a particular folder you set.

        As far as PrPro ... I can't think of anything. Double clicking on a clip brings it up in the source monitor, at whatever size you have the source monitor set at the moment ... which I don't think is what you're asking exactly either.

        Neil

        Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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