How do I REALLY Import (move) clips, not just link to the clip?

[CaptianVideo]

I'm new to Premiere and am coming from an editing workflow that defines "Import" as actually MOVING media from the camera card to a specific location. There must be an easy way to do this but I can't figure it out.

The back story is that I'm teaching Premiere to college students who may or may not remember to bring their camera cards to class. They are working with many different cameras and each has different file structure. Simply saying "Find the media files on your camera and copy those files to your computer." is not a good solution.

Any advice will be appreciated.

[excited_Genie16B8]

1a. Use Windows Explorer or Finder to copy the full card to the Media drive.

1b.  (Always start a new shoot with an empty card.  Never 'continue' shooting on a card with media present.)

2a. Open the Premiere Pro project and use the Media Browser for Import duties.

2b. (Students will have to bring their cards.  You're teaching them how to use professional software.  They need to learn professional habits.  They're adults now, don't coddle them)

[Kib]

I teach video editing on a number of film production courses.  Students should always have an external HDD for their own media.  1TB 7200rpm USB3 portable drive.  G-Drive has a good one.  I get them to format them for ExFAT to allow Mac & PC access.

I get students to use Disk Utility on the Mac to make a dmg archive of the camera card

This image can then be mounted and Media Browser & Ingest Settings used to take a copy of the card media (and proxies if necessary) and deposit in their working media folders on their HDD.

Cards are naturally formatted, the Card images created are stored away from their working drive as a backup and they have their portable drives with all variants of their media allowing them to work on any Mac in the room as the media linked to a named Volume on a Mac and not a lettered drive C:\ etc

[Meg The Dog · Accepted solution]

See below, Ingest Workflow:

Basic Premiere Pro editing workflow

MtD

[CaptianVideo]

This is exactly what I was looking for.

THANKS!

[CaptianVideo]

Thanks for the suggestions. I understand what you are both saying and will have students use a variation of the suggestions.

I must say I find this "solution" rather convoluted. When we use Lightroom, there is an option to Copy the images from the card to a specific location on the computer - there is even an option to save it to two different locations. For my way of thinking, this is a much more logical workflow since I don't always want to use everything on a card.

Thanks.