Loading Subfolders in Library

Boaz · Post by **Boaz** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 11:10 pm

I have all my footage saved in a folder hierarchy that goes:

year\month\day\clips.m2ts

Is there anyway to load all the videos in the whole year without going into each day one at at time?

It seems so silly that I can't load a whole folder, I am not going to change my storage structure, so if it can't do it, I'll just quit VS.

I'm running XP and X2 btw.

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:35 am

As far as I know you can't.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:35 am

Well, I'm afraid it might just have to be bye-bye to VS then!

But I would be interested to hear of an editing program that can do what you want it to...

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:39 am

Why bother using the library if you already have a structured filing system on the hard drive. I experimented in the past with large libraries and found it was just a waste of time and cumbersome, better to have a small library restricted to the "job in hand" and cleared at the end of the project ready for a new one.

Boaz · Post by **Boaz** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 7:22 am

sjj1805 wrote:Why bother using the library if you already have a structured filing system on the hard drive. I experimented in the past with large libraries and found it was just a waste of time and cumbersome, better to have a small library restricted to the "job in hand" and cleared at the end of the project ready for a new one.

Because the project is the whole year.

Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 6:30 pm

Hi

Batch rename all files in the individual folders giving them a suffix like, year, month, day, etc
Then move all files to one folder.
Import the contents of that folder to the library.

But I would have thought you would prefer a separate library page for each.