I've been sharing sequences on a project. Unfortunately, Premiere starts creating 'Recovered Clips' bins... thus duplicated media for our project and defeating any effort to keep our media organized. When sharing sequences, it's impossible for all media to be under the exact same path (with drive letter) across numerous team members, so media must sometimes be located (even if the data tree is the same). It seems that Premiere creates duplicates for this located media, even though they already exist in the project. Can I merge these duplicates back into the versions that already exist?
I don't want to to have multiple copies of the same media in our project.