Collection import from Lightroom

Good evening
I am a new user to Premiere Elements 9, but I've been using Adobe Lightroom for a long time for indexing and sorting photos (and vidéos since ver 3).
I have created a collection of photos/videos in Lightroom from files located in different folders, and I would like to import it to create a DVD in premier. The problem is that drag'n drop does not work, and catalog file format seem to be not compatible between Lightroom (lrcat) and Premier (xml ?).
Does anyone have an idea to solve with efficiency ? I could of course export all the files from the collection in Lightroom to a temporary folder, and import this folde in premiere, but this would be time and space consumming...
Thanks,
Erwann

You might already know, but Lightroom's .lrcat is really just a complete relational database system housed within a single file. And Premiere's project files are .xml, so yes, the file formats are completely incompatible.
I don't know of any automated way to get a collection into Premiere. I think you will have to do an export.
I only have LR 2, so I'm not sure how the videos would work as far as exporting, but the pictures should be relatively straightforward. You can just select the entire collection and export them to a temp folder as JPG, PSD, TIF, or DNG. I'm sure Steve or others could chime in on the preferred format but I would guess PSD or JPG.
Then just suck that temp folder into Premiere.
Also, as you may or may not know, large-pixel images do not work well in Premiere, so in your LR export step be sure to limit the exported images to specific pixel sizes. If you plan on doing this more than once, you could save the export settings as a preset.
HTH

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