Editing with clips directly from Media Browser

As soon as you add that clip to a sequence, it's automatically imported anyway.

So whether you import first and then add to the sequence, or go straight from Media Browser to sequence, the media is being imported.

I think there is nothing wrong in opening the video files from media browser to source monitor and mark IN & OUT to use them in the sequence or timeline because the time you place the clip into the timeline, premiere pro automatically imports the clip in project panel.

Incase you just mark the IN & OUT in the clips opened in source monitor from media browser but won't use them in the timeline/sequence than the IN & OUT points will be lost once you close the premiere pro and reopen it, whereas if you import it via media browser and than mark IN & OUT point into the clips than it will be saved with the project.

Importing clips also helps you to organise clips into Bins or create a storyboard out of the clips into the project panel or to add metadata information I.E. labels, notes etc.

There can be many other reasons to import the clips into project via media browser instead of straight way using into the source monitor....

Because the best way of guaranteed import with all metadata correctly parked in the PrPro database is via importing by media browser.

You can also right click a blank spot in the Project panel, select "import", and that seems to do as well. Other methods get the media in, but can get more weirdities later on in the Project.

Neil