Add clip with Media Browser to specific bin

[Kasper.Photos]

Hi,

I use Media Browser to find and choose clip for my project. Double click open clip in source monitor, put IN/OUT  point and drag this fragment  to timeline. Premiere import this clip to project automatically in background but put this in main project catalogue. Can I define bin where Media Browser should import selected clip?

[R Neil Haugen]

No, I don't think so. If you Import from a bin in the Project panel, the clip will appear in that bin. However, that's not as handy as having the Media Browser panel open for selecting clips the way you work.

Neil

[Kasper.Photos]

Thank you for reply 🙂

Maybe I should suggest Adobe creating this function? 😉

I am looking for the best way to create a comfortable workflow. Previously, I imported all clips into the project, sorted and transferred to the right container. Now I'm trying to work with the media browser to select right take and it's very good, but if you forget move clips you have big mess in project. Can you share how you work with this? Maybe you have some advices 🙂

[R Neil Haugen]

I typically use the Media Browser to import folders of media which then appear as bins in my project. I most often add clips to a sequence and do my trimming there, especially using top & tail process ... Q auto-cuts at the CTI, deletes the part of the clip before the CTI and ripple closes the gap to the previous clip; W does this to the back end of a clip.

Then re-arrange as necessary. Sometimes I do the above with all clips of a bin as a "stringout" sequence, then drag/drop them onto the working sequence in a pancake stacked timeline layout. Sometimes I do use the Source monitor, set in/out and then insert into timeline.

Neil

[RobShultz]

Have you tried selecting the bin folder icon in the project panel before taking these steps to see if it lands in that bin?

[Kasper.Photos]

Rob I've tried and this not work 😞 

[Michael Grenadier]

I usually just drag files from the finder to the target bin.  Of course I'm either working on a macpro with 2 monitors or a macbookpro with an external monitor... so it's an easy step.   I know I think Neil has suggested that using the media browser preserves the metadata better.  Hasn't seemed a problem for me...  I've tried the media browser workflow, just doesn't seem as easy to me as draging the files to the bin...

[Ann Bens]

If the clip is selfcontaind there is no harm in drag and drop.

If the file is not 100% contained (spanned clips, complex directories, external metadata files, etc) then Media Browser is the way to go because Premiere can properly identify the clips/structure before trying to import.

[Michael Grenadier]

haven't tested this in 2020, but premiere handles spanned clips ok with the drag and drop method and using the media browser is no better.. or worse.  but your in deep doodoo if you have to export an xml to color correct in resolve.  I'll test it in 2020 when I have a few minutes, but I dug in to this pretty deeply with the only solution I found was to use editready to convert my spanned clips to prores and combine the multiple files in to one file...