Managing stock footage from different projects

We're trying to figure out how to manage our stock footage. What we want to do is take stock clips out of a finished project, move them into a project that contains only stock footage, and then delete the project they originated in. That way we have all our stock footage in a single project that we can call up whenever we need to use it. Of course, we can do this manually by selecting the clips, copying them into our Stock project capture scratch and then re-connecting, but this is hugely time consuming. Any suggestions on a faster way to do this? We've thought about using Media Manager, but it seems that would only work the first time we created the Stock project. After that, with stock from other projects, it seems like we'd have to import and re-connect from whatever file Media Manger puts the clips into.

Whoops. Didn't realize that. New forums got me all confused. Thx Tom.

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Thanks Colin, I tried what you suggested with both the AE Project that it should be referencing and the AE project it is erroneously referencing but both failed to fix the issue. Its as if a hidden clip were laid over the top of the one I want to play. Frustrating.
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:47:03 -0600
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Subject: Dynamic link confusing two separate AE compositions in PPro from different projects
    Re: Dynamic link confusing two separate AE compositions in PPro from different projects
    created by Colin Brougham in Premiere Pro CS5 & CS5.5 - View the full discussion
It's not the comps that are the problem; it's the project file names themselves. You can have all the comps in a project named the same thing, and it'll be fine, but naming projects incrementally is an issue. After Effects includes a versioning function (Save and Increment) that will create a new AE project file with a serial number, e.g. AE Project 01, AE Project 02, etc. This is all well and good if you're just working in After Effects, but Dynamic Link gets confused and will usually start looking at the later project file for comps. That will just create a big mess, as you've found. Changing the names of the project files won't help things relink automatically properly, but it can help you fix things. Make all your DL AE comps offline in your Pr projects, and name your AE projects in a manner that is not serial (give them more random names). Select your offline AE comps, and right-click > Link Media, and point to the new AE project. Things should link up correctly then--but if they don't, you'll just have to remove all the AE comps from your Pr project, reimport the comps from the newly-named AE project, and replace them. It's a pain but it'll probably just keep getting worse if you don't.
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