Import folder structure...

I have my pictures stored in year/month/day format on my HDD. Is there a way to import into Aperture with folders/projects showing year/month only?

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I have my pictures stored in year/month/day format on my HDD. Is there a way to import into Aperture with folders/projects showing year/month only?
So in the day folder are the image files? At what level in aperture do you want the projects? And what do you want the structure to look like? A folder for year, sub-folders for months then projects for each day? Or a project for each month?
When you import folders you have two options as to how you want the folders/sub-folders mirrored in Aperture. [See Why is Aperture not including subfolders when importing from another drive|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12886970&#12886970]
More info migh tmake your task a bit easier

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Import folder structure. Incorrect date on folders.

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Hi Anton. A possible work-around. Import as you have been doing, then select all of the imported Images in Aperture and run "File→Relocate Masters ... " using the setting "Subfolder format: Image Year/Month/Day". I have started seeing similar failures to properly file Referenced Masters on import. Re-filing them from within Aperture has put them all in the right Finder folders.
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Thanks Ann Bens (& Jeff Greenberg).
It worked as suggested. It even brought over the pesky little "NewTek Info" folders from a client that I sometimes can't see in Explorer/Finder. Everything was Nice, Neat, and Organized, exactly the way they were set up. - I guess I should visit 'Bessie' more often as everything I found here for 'Import Folder Structure' led me to LightRoom discussions.
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Many thanks

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Retaining folder structure when importing videos

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I am a new User auf Itunes. On my harddisk i have several folders sorted by topics. Can i keep this folder structure when i import the songs into itunes? When I tried it yesterday all songs were in the main folder in itunes. I dont want to sort these songs again.
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How to import files and convert folder structure to collections hierarchy?

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Hi.
Trash the iPhoto Library folder that you created on your Mac, or rename it "iPhoto Library damaged" if you may need some of its contents. Copy the iPhoto Library folder from the backup into your Pictures folder. Hold down the Option key as you launch iPhoto and select "Choose Library" from the dialog. Navigate to the good iPhoto Library folder and open. iPhoto should launch and open your library in exactly the same condition it was in when the backup was made. If all goes well you don't have to import anything.
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When I import my media it breaks apart my folder structure

Strange thing started happening and I'm not sure what changed. The way I organize my media is in a folder tree like this:
- Client
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Normally I just import my my raw media folder for that project into premier and folder structure stay intact but now it's not. it gives me the folder that I import and then all the clips but I loose the other folders for day and card. It's a particular pain in the *** because the project was shot on a Sony FS700 and the 700 does do distinct file names. Every time to start a new card it starts on with 00000. Anyone have a clue on how I can fix it?

Well I do something similar. But I start at Project.
On the Hard drive I just Ingest / Import the camera card structure from and including the Folder "Private">.mts"
I just Import the .mts files to a Bin in the Project Window that has the same naming protocol as on the HDrive. eg Day1 >Card 1 etc...
No problems ever.
and the 700 does do distinct file names.
I think you meant "does NOT do..."

Can I import and keep folder structure?

I have thousands of pics and videos. I'm willing to buy in to the whole iCloud experience (literally), but in my small experiments, I couldn't see how to import and KEEP the folders containing numerous pics. For example, if I have 1000s of FAMILY pics, TRAVEL pics, and FRIEND pics, all in separate folders. Can I import these pics (currently on Onedrive; I assume I can't import direct from Onedrive to iCloud.com?) keeping the separation and folder breakdown I worked so long to organize? Every attempt I've made, strips the folder and throws all pics in together. Yes, I know we can use clever tricks like geotags and dates to separate the photos to an extent. But most of my photos don't contain that metadata. And moreover, I've already manually done the work to my liking. Any ideas?

Import your folder structure to iPhoto, and then migrate the iPhoto Library to Photos.
iPhoto will create an event for each folder you import and name it like the folder. You can simply drag the whole folder structure onto the iPhoto icon.
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Importing .mts files not nested in original camera folder structure

The short version:
Is there any way to import .mts files already copied to a hard drive, without keeping the camera's folder structure intact, into Premiere Pro CS5.5?
The long version:
I recently purchased an iMac. For years I edited video on Windows using Sony Vegas and Vegas Home Studio. My camera, the Panasonic Lumix TS2, shoots AVCHD video. Vegas has no problem importing and editing AVCHD .mts files from a camera or a hard drive so it wasn't until I attempted to edit some video in Premiere Pro, recieved the "unsupported compressions type" error message and did some searching that I realized folder structure is so critial to working with AVCHD. From what I can tell, the files have to be in the PRIVATE>AVCHD>BDMV>STREAM>xxxxxxx.mts confirguration to be imported via the media browser.
Here is my situation, I have hundreds of .mts files in separate folders, bundled together with photos from the same day or event. I'm on an iMac i7, using an activated version of Premiere Pro CS5.5 from the Master Collection. Is there any way I can import and edit these files natively? And in the future, is there any way around transferring the entire folder structure everytime I want to copy the video files to my hard drive? I use Bridge to import photos and it will just pull the video files off the card and plop them in the same folder. Having to transfer the videos separately seems like a silly work around in our modern age. Thanks for any help you can provide.

Yo! I used to have this problem for about 1 year!! And fixed it about half a year ago and I have never been as happy when I fixed it!
Be sure that your sequence settings are set to the right settings: When you create a new sequence you should be promped with a window asking what settings you want. Open the "AVCHD" folder and there should be 3 folders; 1080p, 1080i, 720p. Pick the one that you filmed at, I film at 1080p, so I open that folder and then you pick the right setting to what you filmed your scene. I film at 24 fps so i pick AVCHD 1080p24 (non-anamorphic). Now there should be a new sequence with the right settings (don't use the same settings as I do unless you have filmed at the same frame rate and that it was filmed at 1080p or 1080i, there is a big difference between "p" and "i"). If you go in to the window in the bottom left corner there should be a tab on that box that says "Media Browser". Click it and the directory to your computer should be shown. If you have your SD card connected there should be something called SD card (or if you have renamed it then it is obvious what you should select). After selecting it there should be a folder called AVCHD and you open it up. This is where it gets tricky... because I don't know what camera you use and don't have any experience with your camera then you will have to go through all the folders that are within the AVCHD folder. They are not so many but in the folder where all the clips are hidden they should be called 00626.mts for example. Then you just select the clips you want to import and import them. This process can also be done by opening Finder (mac) or on PC just open up the same way and select the clips you want and drag them i to your project window
Then if you drag a clip in to the sequence, this is were you see if you did all the steps right (with the sequence settings) then the light above the clip should be yellow, meaning that the playback engine recognizes the format and can play it back without any compression Therefor giving you much better quality videos!
Hope this helps, I know the pain you are going through, don't want it to happen to anyone else

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