but it sounds wrong and I think you have a misunderstanding of the work flow and NLEs! I am not exactly sure what you are trying to do here.

I keep specific projects 'whole' and 'isolated' as 'stand-alone' and 'complete' in respective folders. I have no problem with that and planned on continuing that way as I don't want to rely on Premiere to handle my original files - Only after I have previewed them outside of Premiere and decided which one's I want to include in any specific project. Saving time is a major consideration for anything to do with video production for me. Here's my 'I Wish': I wish there were a way to extract all of the files in the AVCHD or 'Private' file as a batch save so I could have all of the individual files (clips) extracted and ready to preview without having to go through, one-by-one, viewing and exporting. I'm just getting my ducks in a row at this point.' I'm new to Premiere coming from FCP and I'm liking Premiere better every day. I don't consider this arrangement to be 'mucked up' at all, I'm just glad to know how it is and what I have to work with before I start tackling any serious work.

You get Five Stars for that reply Jim, I gathered that it seemed good to double-click on the resulting file, which does open in Quicktime and does show all of the clips and does offer the ability to export in the original format to folders where I save original clips.

Vlc avchd collection