Can't drag and drop anything anywhere into Premiere Pro

For the record for future generations - I had this same problem today, and in my case it turned out to be a JPEG file in CMYK mode rather than RGB. When dragging and dropping, the operation will silently fail. When importing using Cmd+I, you will get a proper message.

In the Project panel, if you right-click in the panel, Import, and select a folder somewhere, you get that folder as a bin if it has more than one item. If only one item in it, you get the item not the folder as a bin.

And although you can import via drag/drop from a file manager app outside of Premiere, it doth seem more likely to get all file meta in the proper places (from practical experience) when using it's own processes.

So the MediaBrowser panel works directly as a file manager app. You can easily 'favorite' locations for quick access, navigate around your computer precisly like any other file manager. Use it as a 'floating' panel if you want to move it around.

And when you add a folder, it's now also a bin.

A possible working practice.

Neil

Hi Guys,

Im new to editing and this community so please excuse if I havent gone through the correct protocols in posting this question.

I am currently taking an online course to learn Premiere Pro and we are now been shown how to use "Assembly View" for better organisation. I am using a PC.

For some reason it wont allow my to drag and drop complete/whole folders in this view. I can go within each folder select all and then drop but I can't do the whole folder as the instructor is currently showing.

Can anyone please advise?   (I see a circle with red line down the middle when trying to do this)

Having the same problem, did you find a solution?

First thing ... although I know a lot of people do it, I really never simply drag/drop from Finder/Explorer to import media. I either use the Media Browser or the Project panel import options.

In Media Browser, I do have 'favorites' set for my main drive/folder locations so getting to stuff is fast and direct.

I often import entire subfolder systems, either through the Media Browser or Project panel, right-click, Import.

Neither takes any more time nor clicks than going out of PrPro to open a Finder/Explorer window and navigating to the folder/media. And from long experience, using Premiere's import/ingestion process does a better job of getting the file metadata from media into PrPro's databases cleanly.

As to getting things from the Project panel ... if that's not working, then Kevin's right, you need to check your Source/Target patching on the sequence.

Neil

Hi Sergiu,

Sorry about that. If you show us a screenshot, we can help more easily. I suspect your tracks are not patched properly. This post should explain how to set up source patching. Let me know if it works or not.

Thanks,
Kevin

Reset preferences and plugins by holding SHIFT+ALT at start up, not just ALT. Give that a try. Also, if you getting the crossed circle, is there another dialogue window up somewhere? Try resetting your workspace once you get into Premiere and open a project, then try to drag in an import again.