Import Sequenz from Project A to Project B without importing media, when media is already in B

[mathis_1133]

Hey there, 

please hear my wish!!!

I'm currently editing a large documentary, and I've received six projects from three different editors. Now, I'm in the process of importing these six projects into a master project. The problem is that some of the editors have very disorganized folder structures, and when I import certain sequences, it creates a lot of confusion.

My idea: You can open two projects simultaneously and then copy a sequence into another project. It would be great if, before copying, Premiere could first check if the media already exists in the project before importing it again and creating duplicates. The same applies to importing an entire project. Other editing programs, like Resolve, handle this well.

Thank you!

[Ann Bens]

This might help:

[mattchristensen]

Ann's suggestion is good. Make sure that setting is turned off, and Premiere Pro will look for duplicates when you import a sequence. However it will only catch exact, literal duplicates. If the same clip was imported independently in each project or if the metadata or markers are different, it doesn't count it as a duplicate and so you get both copies of a clip.

I realize you may have already been cutting this project for a while, but in the future you should use the Productions workflow for this. With Productions you create a folder full of as many projects as you like, and think of the projects like bins. Each editor can have their projects in the production and share sequences between the projects with 0 duplicates being created, ever. Source clips can live in a bin in Project A and be cut into a sequence in Project B without also showing up in Project B's bins. You can work with the Production hosted on a shared server, or, you can build out the production (import the media, etc) then share copies of it to everyone and still benefit from sharing projects with sequences, without duplicates.

I realize that's a lot to try to explain – check out Chapter 6 of our Best Practices Guide which documents all about Productions: https://adobe.ly/PremiereProGuide

[R Neil Haugen]

What a ... mess, to be polite.

Yes, Matt is correct, use the Productions process for any collaborative work or even any larger projects as a solo operator, going forward.

Even in my one-person shop, I abandoned stand-alone projects years ago to be able to use all my sound libraries, b-roll, template assets and such between all projects for all different work types and clients.

Awesome improvement.