New in Beta: Improvements to Relinking

Hey ​@Fergus H ,

I'd like to touch on this improvement of which I'm not even sure if it was released already. But we work with both Win and Mac machines in our team. As I understand it, Premiere can store both paths for media so once linked on each OS all is good. But you have to link it a first time everytime a new file needs to link on an OS it hasn't been on yet.

If relinking worked this wouldn't be a super big deal, but we very often run into the issue where footage simply refuses to auto link further, even if the files live in the same folder!

We've just started a new project which is setup on a Mac and doesn’t auto link FX3 MP4 material.
I'm running the beta here as well and it still poses the exact same relinking problem indicating that this update is not addressing it.

As a workaround we’ve vibecoded a tool that can inject a secondary file list of the existing one inside a .prproj file with a corrected source path, i.e: mac Volumes/PROJECTS/blabla/file.mp4 into mapped drive X:/blabla/file.mp4

This works flawlessly and gets rid of the relink window all together so it feels rather silly that Premiere still doesn't have very good media management in this regard.

Concepts like defining a project container from where paths are defined could make the process 10x faster. Redefine the container location and the rest of the paths deeper into it correct themselves automatically. Or maybe some form of relative paths from project could also be smoother.

Anyway, please let me know if you need anything to get this issue solved.

Hi Fergus.

If you’re revisiting relinking behavior, I’d like to suggest something.

Currently, Premiere automatically relinks any file that’s renamed or moved within the Project file folder or its subfolders. That’s useful, but limited - many editors (myself included) will store media separately like in the folder structure below.

What I'd like to see is Premiere also searching a level above the Project file folder to catch any changes made in these media folders. This would save having to use the dreaded Link Media dialog in the first place.

Of course, I understand if the level above the Project file folder contained an entire drive or system directory, that could be problematic. So perhaps turn this behavior off by default and make it an option in the Preferences?

Dan