Media encoder - transcode clips to different hard drive while maintaining folder structure

[alexp3145766]

Hello,

I have a question concerning Premiere / Media Encoder.

Im working on a huge project. I have a lot of footage on a 8tb hard drive and its capacity is maxed out.

In order to work with the footage, I need to transcode it or create proxies on a different hard drive while maintaining the folderstructure. There are around 100 folders with subfolders, so I prefer transcoding them all at once.

Is there a way to select all folders of the footage in premiere in my project, create proxys to the original folder of each individual clip but just replacing  Drive X witch Y for all clips?  For example, just change from X/Interview/footage/CameraA to Y/interview/footage/CameraA without choosing a location manually.

Same with media encoder: When I throw all Folders in there, can I switch the drive it transcodes to without changing the folder structure?

I need to have one drive with the original footage and another drive that mirrors the original one with transcoded footage.

Thank you!

[Guest]

Moving to the Premiere Pro forum from Get Started

[Ann Bens]

Destination is set in the Create Proxies window.

There are but two options:

Next to original Media in proxy folder or a custom desitonation.

Might need to do this folder by folder.

[Michael Grenadier]

Personally, I'd get a new drive with room for both the media and your new proxies and put the proxies in a folder next to the original media.  You can simply copy the media folder structure from the source drive to the new drive and after you've copied everything over, rename the new drive to match the old drive and premiere should see everything without an issue.  You can set a single folder on the new drive as a destination for your proxies, but many cameras create arbitrary file names that may cause duplicate file names to exist.  I'm not sure how premiere handles this and I'd probably avoid doing this on principle.  Hopefully someone who has more experience with this kind of proxy workflow can contribute a better worfklow.  

that said, testing your workflow before working with terabytes of material is always a good idea (this is the voice of experience speaking).