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I just started to check trial version of PD13 and noticed that there are no folders or subfolders option in media library window. I found, that in older versions of PD there was such option add folder and its subfolders (I have seen some tutorial) and organize clips into these folders.

Is there any way how to easily organize 1000+ clips within PD13 project media library or any other window.

Thanks for answer

Petr

In PD you can create folders (New Tag) to organize groups of files and facilitate the work.

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What would be nice is the ability to drag a folder into the media library and have PD automatically make a new tag with the contents of the folder in it.

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Quote: Dear all

I just started to check trial version of PD13 and noticed that there are no folders or subfolders option in media library window. I found, that in older versions of PD there was such option add folder and its subfolders (I have seen some tutorial) and organize clips into these folders.

Is there any way how to easily organize 1000+ clips within PD13 project media library or any other window.

Thanks for answer

Petr

In PD you can create folders to organize groups of files and facilitate the work.

See the image.

Thank you.
Do you mean I can create new tag? I did not find any option to create new folder and/or subfolder within folder (BTW Sony Movie Studio has such option).

I know I can create tag and move some clips into it. Tagging your footage is good if you have only small projects. I usually have 5-6 cassetes wit 200+ clips each, which is difficult to handle if there is no way to organize clips in a sensible way. Without possibility to take some 100+ clips from an event (let say visit of cathedral) and organize them into smaller groups is difficult to do any reasonable project.

That is why I need to migrate from Adobe Premiere, which in new versions also removed possibility easily organize clips.

AFAIK the only possibility doing larger projects with PD seems to be saving chunks of work as smaller projects and somehow finalise them with loading/unloading clips not used in relevant chunk.

Thanks
Petr

petr777,

You said

Quote: the only possibility doing larger projects with PD seems to be saving chunks of work as smaller projects

Yes, that's what I'm doing... I'm making a GradVideo for my granddaughter. 3.5GB worth of photos and vids. I made separate projects for the opening sequence, her three favorite songs and then the end credits and "produced" each of them. Then I made a 6th project that combines them and produced that. On my hard drive, I organized her photos into Backgrounds, Family, Friends and Solos. Then, having the same problem you are... if you go in the Media Room and scroll all the way to the bottom and find a blank spot... you can right-click and "Remove All Unused Content from Library".

What I'm going to do for my next project is create the tags first, select it and then import the files so they are then classified into that new tag.

It seems, the more planning you have done, the easier it is. I hope this helps in some way.

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Thank you.
Do you mean I can create new tag? I did not find any option to create new folder and/or subfolder within folder (BTW Sony Movie Studio has such option).

I know I can create tag and move some clips into it. Tagging your footage is good if you have only small projects. I usually have 5-6 cassetes wit 200+ clips each, which is difficult to handle if there is no way to organize clips in a sensible way. Without possibility to take some 100+ clips from an event (let say visit of cathedral) and organize them into smaller groups is difficult to do any reasonable project.

That is why I need to migrate from Adobe Premiere, which in new versions also removed possibility easily organize clips.

AFAIK the only possibility doing larger projects with PD seems to be saving chunks of work as smaller projects and somehow finalise them with loading/unloading clips not used in relevant chunk.

Thanks
Petr

That what you want is the same, I do in Windows Explore need not be done within PD.

Add hundreds of files in the media library PD, will leave the slower process, I prefer to do in steps for these cases.

Just my opinion.

Thanks to all who responded. Anyway I prefer to do all editing in one program, so PD although it can render quickly and although has some nice features is probably no way. I wonder why PD discarded such option if they already implemented it in older versions.

Best regards
Petr