You can use AviSynth to consolidate multiple episodes into one source file.
Download AMVapp (http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtechold/amvapp.html) as it has everything you'll need to work with AviSynth in one package. Alternately, you can download the components separately; make sure you have AviSynth itself and the Premiere import plugin.
Save it as "[filename].avs". Now you have one AVS file (i.e. a script) you can import into Premiere that contains five episodes that you can edit as you normally would. If you need 20 episodes, this would cut your number of source files down to four. As far as I can tell there's no limit on the number of episodes you can put in one script, but obviously the more you cram into one script the harder it is to scrub through and find the clips you want.
If the episodes won't play properly, replace AVISource with DirectShowSource. That usually fixes the problem with most standard codecs. Also, another nifty trick is to use the KillAudio filter. This eliminates the audio track and thus prevents Premiere from taking up all that time and space it wastes in conforming audio. To implement it, write KillAudio(AVISource("file1.avi","file2.avi",etc)).
Hope this helps!
ETA: Please note that if you are working with raw DVD rips the process isn't quite this simple. You'll need to use DGIndex (included in the AMVapp) to index the VOBs. This will spit out a bunch of .d2v files that can be included in AviSynth scripts and be read by Premiere. You can then use those to consolidate the episodes however you wish, using the same procedure as outlined above.
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Date: 2008-02-10 05:24 pm (UTC)Download AMVapp (http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtechold/amvapp.html) as it has everything you'll need to work with AviSynth in one package. Alternately, you can download the components separately; make sure you have AviSynth itself and the Premiere import plugin.
Then open a text editor and copy this code:
#ASYNTHER Default (AVISource)
AVISource("file1.avi","file2.avi","file3.avi","file4.avi","file5.avi")
Save it as "[filename].avs". Now you have one AVS file (i.e. a script) you can import into Premiere that contains five episodes that you can edit as you normally would. If you need 20 episodes, this would cut your number of source files down to four. As far as I can tell there's no limit on the number of episodes you can put in one script, but obviously the more you cram into one script the harder it is to scrub through and find the clips you want.
If the episodes won't play properly, replace AVISource with DirectShowSource. That usually fixes the problem with most standard codecs. Also, another nifty trick is to use the KillAudio filter. This eliminates the audio track and thus prevents Premiere from taking up all that time and space it wastes in conforming audio. To implement it, write KillAudio(AVISource("file1.avi","file2.avi",etc)).
Hope this helps!
ETA: Please note that if you are working with raw DVD rips the process isn't quite this simple. You'll need to use DGIndex (included in the AMVapp) to index the VOBs. This will spit out a bunch of .d2v files that can be included in AviSynth scripts and be read by Premiere. You can then use those to consolidate the episodes however you wish, using the same procedure as outlined above.