Fuzzy Barsik wrote:
1. Do you import your assets into a project based on scenes or cards?
2. For multicam reality how do you build your timeline without knowing which '00025.MTS' exactly belongs to a particular camera angle taken in particular time?
3. Being aware of some inconvenience, why fighting windmills? If you understand how things work, you can organise your project accordingly. Why e.g. not to combine clips for a particular scene in a particular sequence instead of moving footages from their original project folders? If you can't live without, why not to choose another tool?
1. They are imported by cards and on large enough shows, the assistants do the prep. Sometimes the workflow allows us to keep the footage in their respective bins, but at other times, this is not a feasible workflow.
2. Usually we rename the clips to a naming system less arbitrary and one that makes logical sense for video editing and production. Hence also my disdain for Panasonic's random file naming. Their op-atom implementation makes it much worse.
3. My point is that I didn't know exactly how Premiere Pro re-links to a clip, as there was once I re-named every single clip in 2 separate folders and it re-linked to all of them perfectly without so much as dialog box to resolve the conflict. The automatic re-linking on that project was very handy, and initially I thought PPro used timecode/reel name to relink when there is a discrepancy with file names, but your post seems to suggest that perhaps PPro relies on folders and pathnames, which seems very troubling. But again, there is no proper documentation from Adobe on this.
Perhaps a suggestion to the OP is to keep the media in the original bins and keep the Finder level folder hierachy on the files similar on both machines. Perhaps that may help the re-linking.