Importing

[ARMAND23183711we1u]

So I have footage from an event that I filmed, on my computer the files are named lets say 0001, 0002 and so on. Now here is my issue, when I import the clips into Premiere Pro, all clips show on my timeline in name. However when playing the footage in Premiere Pro, 0001 and 0002 will playback as exactly the same clip when its not. The footage looks differnt in file explorer than in Premiere Pro for lets say 0002.

So to be clear, in file explorer 0002 is its own clip and 0001 is a differnt clip, but on my timeline its the same clip. Why is this happening. 

Note I clear my cache every week, and cleared it before I started on this project.

[R Neil Haugen]

You have "spanned media" that you've been importing as clips ... wrong. "Spanned media" is media where the camera breaks up the clip into separate files of X duration. So several of those "clips" actually are only one clip in total. And it is confusing in the metadata if you don't import them correctly.

Some Sony camera formats do this, Red does it, some others.

Start over. Use the MediaBrowser panel, and import the folder of media. Then it should work better.

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hi @ARMAND23183711we1u,

Can the team have more info? See, How do I write a bug report?

Thanks,
Kevin

[ARMAND23183711we1u]

Thanks, I believe that was the case as the camera did break up 1 long clip into several smaller clips. I did solve the issue by renaming the clips, and doing the importing as you described.

[R Neil Haugen]

"Spanned media" can be a bit of a pain.

I forgot about this on a job I hired a guy shooting both a Red and a Sony ... all the Red files were spanned, some Sony.

I initially imported all by navigating to the folders with the clips, and imported them ... "as normal".

But I'd have say five clips of Red that all were identical on the sequence though named the same. And realized ... oops.

So I deleted ALL those bins of clips, and went back and properly imported by folder. 

I really, really dislike working with spanned media.