Importing Files and Folders

In this movie I discuss how you can import files and folders into your Premiere project. We cover five different examples:
- Importing a Single File
- Importing multiple files of all file types
- Importing Files of One file type directly into a bin
- Importing a Folder with all subfolders
- Importing a Folder while limiting what else is coming in

[monday]

Thank you. You are really good at teaching.
You explain things so well, step by step, making it easy for beginners to understand.

[tgard]

Thank you so much for your content. I ran into problems with .DS_Store files (so I excluded thosse) and when trying to exclude sub-folders. The ....indexOf(".") doesn't work when one of your folders in your file path has a period. Instead, use "instanceOf File" to check if it's a file or a folder. Also, using was crucial to not make slots in the Ary that are empty (when a sub-folder is found and you don't want to include it in import). You can't import the importAry when it has slots that are empty.

[prophetincorporated]

Hi. My respect for you! Nice that someone explains this so clearly.
This is a very important question for me. How to import specific comp form After Effects?
When you importing a AE project file PP asks which file I want to import and I need to click everytime. It doesn't even imports multiple files, only one by one...

Please tell me how to write a script to import a specific comp from AE (names and indexes of those comps are constant and known).

[EttiCohn]

Hey!! Love your content!!! Extremely clear and helpful! I was wondering is it possible to import a file where ever the player head is? without having to like drag and drop.... maybe even create a specific key stroke to call on a file? and import it practically with the click of a button... Id love to create that!

[ADERPIS]

Hi there been loving the tutorials so far, Just wondering how to import files and folders from an exact file path for windows instead of opening a menu and selecting the file or folder like you've shown?

[jeganjegann]

Hi its very useful can you demo on how to read file name and assign on something
thanks in advance

[ianhampton]

Thank you for all these tutorials. Just a note though that might simplify your code. You have a for loop to get the file names from the importManyFiles array. You can simplify that with the array map functionality.

importAry = importManyFiles.map(f => f.fsName);

Here's a good description of how array map works: