Jim_Simon and Ann Bens have a very long track record of providing really awesome help to people who are having trouble. They are veterans in this forum So if it were me I would follow their advice. Or don't. It's up to you. If you want to read more about importing media there are also some great help files that can guide you into making your own decision for your workflow. Importing media files into Premiere Pro has some really good explanations. Good luck!
The tricky thing is... all the cameras have different ways they store stuff ( I'm assuming you're using an SD card from camera). Even it using something else ( like atomos out of your HDMI ) the SSD would handle stuff the way it is set up by the manufacturer ( atomos).
Since nobody can be expected to know every camera ( and every iteration of it .. like a new one compared to an older one) the easy answer is to just put whatever is on the SD card into the computer HD and then look for your mov files and import them.
If there happens to be other stuff related to them ( like xml metadata files ) then they will be found by the NLE ( hopefully).
In your case you probably just need to move the mov files onto hard drive and import them.
I typically 'reformat' any SD card I put back into camera.... so it's ready to go and deletes old stuff, and if it wants to make other folders it does that during the reformat.
good luck...
p.s. there are some cameras ( sony S log ) that DO have xml files associated with every clip ( mov file ). Or is it MP4... I forget...so that's an example of weird stuff.
Some NLE's will recognize the metadata (usually some color space info ) and some won't. Adobe is stupid, so it doesn't, but that doesn't mean it doesn't need a whole file structure ( all folders) from some cameras to import properly.
So, again, in your case.. just drag the mov files or mp4, whatever they are, onto HD and you should be fine,
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