What if I need clips from the AVCHD file that are now open in a project in Premiere, brought into other projects? Do I need to open the same AVCHD file again in each project to sort out which clips belong to which project?Īs ShooterNZ says, all you have is a link to Asset (your AVCHD in this case). Keep all your source files exactly how they came of the card ( camera card) on your local hard drive. ( one way.Drag them to a Folder in the Project Window eg "Holiday Clips"". Where varies a little depending on camera but eg. Locate your Source footage on the local hard drive directory.Ĭlick down to the individual source clips. " Copy entire AVCHD file from your card to your local hard drive ( not C ) Okay, I'm now going to do an about face and revise my workflow routine to start in Premiere. You dont need to use the QT player at all in your Premiere editing workflow is the advice that Jim and I are telling you. The place to sort your files is in the Bins in a Premiere Project.īasically.Edit in the editing Application. THey will be individual files in side Premiere.ĭont mess around trawling through them, viewing them in an external player and sorting them. It wont harm your source files by working "with " them. ie not the ingesting of the source files into Premiere (Project Bins) although I am sure he is right.but I think he is advising you about something else. but it sounds wrong and I think you have a misunderstanding of the work flow and NLEs! I am not exactly sure what you are trying to do here.
I keep specific projects 'whole' and 'isolated' as 'stand-alone' and 'complete' in respective folders. I have no problem with that and planned on continuing that way as I don't want to rely on Premiere to handle my original files - Only after I have previewed them outside of Premiere and decided which one's I want to include in any specific project. Saving time is a major consideration for anything to do with video production for me. Here's my 'I Wish': I wish there were a way to extract all of the files in the AVCHD or 'Private' file as a batch save so I could have all of the individual files (clips) extracted and ready to preview without having to go through, one-by-one, viewing and exporting. I'm just getting my ducks in a row at this point.' I'm new to Premiere coming from FCP and I'm liking Premiere better every day. I don't consider this arrangement to be 'mucked up' at all, I'm just glad to know how it is and what I have to work with before I start tackling any serious work. You get Five Stars for that reply Jim, I gathered that it seemed good to double-click on the resulting file, which does open in Quicktime and does show all of the clips and does offer the ability to export in the original format to folders where I save original clips.