Intelligent Media Search Feedback/Idea

[Jeffuno]

The Intelligent Media Search is an awesome new feature, however it would be even better if you could search a folder on an external drive. I have hundreds of hours of B-roll that I've filmed over the past 10 years and it is impossible to load this into a project, but if I could just point to an external folder for it to search that would be amazing!

[mattchristensen]

@Jeffuno Thank you for the feedback! You're not the only person who has suggested something like this.

In the meantime, you could create a sort of "archive" project where you just import all the footage on your drive, don't make any sequences or anything else. You don't have to put it in bins or do any organization, just import all the footage and let the analysis run.

Then you could just open this project when you want to search your whole drive or archive. Premiere Pro can have both your edit project and this archive project open at the same time, and when you search and find the clip, dragging it into your actual edit project will move the clip over automatically.