Final Cut Pro Folders creation

Folders imported into FCP become keyword collections. They don't remain folders. There are no sub keyword collections, i.e. keyword collections inside keyword collections.

Folders in FCP are only used to group keyword collections. You can have folders of keyword collections inside other folders, but you can't generate them from the Finder. All the content on the Finder folders will be changed to separare keyword collections. Once that's done you can organize them into folders if you wish.

You are right, you can use the folder structure to make keyword collections, but there is no folder architecture as such for clips.

You can, however, somewhat mimic that structure by making folders of keyword and/or smart collections.

I don’t understand the part where you needed to create a folder first.

You should be able to drag a folder from the Finder onto an event and import. Make sure that FCP has Full Disk Access (it probably already does but if not it’s possible that it is causing the problem).

As for the last part, I told you as much. You can only have folders of collections, not folders of clips. Unless there are many layers of enclosed folders, it is very easy to reconstruct the hierarchy using the keyword collections just created.

These pages may help:

Import into Final Cut Pro for Mac from your Mac or storage device - Apple Support

Organize Smart Collections in Final Cut Pro for Mac - Apple Support

If you import whole folders by selecting the folder in the Import window or with drag and drop, keyword collections will be created based on the folder names or Finder tags.

These are checked on by default in the Import window.

What are you dragging to where? Could you post some screenshots?

Are you dragging folders to FCP?

What are the contents of these folders? If drag empty folders, or folders that do not contain usable media files (video, photos, or audio), then you should get that "None of the selected files..."

What happens if you press Command-I in FCP (or File->Import->Media) and select the top folder that you want and click Import?

Can you show the contents of the folder?

Where is folder located exactly? What drive? How is it connected and formatted?

The application is working correctly for me using the Import window. I got an error message on a couple of metadata files that were in the random 20 or so folders I imported.

I really don't understand why the folder dragging would not work. It's a direct function for creating keywords. You can drive onto the event icon or even into the event browser pane if the event is selected. If you have leave in place set as the import behavior you should see a hooked arrow. The only thing I can think that would prevent it is if the media is contained in camera folder structures. That may not work.

A few relatively obvious things that we may be forgetting:

1) Did you try deleting preferences? Just yesterday we were over a weird problem here and in the end deleting preferences fixed it.

2) (probably already checked, and sorry if I repeat myself): does FCP have Full Disk Access in System Settings->Privacy & Security?