Relinking Media everytime I open a project

Hi @JanVdB - Thanks for the test results.  You mentioned this happened a few days ago.  Did you recently update your PC?  The operating system's exFAT driver implementation can affect performance, I wonder if this is what is happening.

Hi Jamie,

I did a few tests.

On different drives, I created the same folder structure, I copied the same video files on, every disk, I created a Premiere Project file on every disk, all differente projects but with the same content. Using the same .Mov Prores444 files, all around 3 to 6GB sized, HD1920x1080 

Here are my results:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Hz1LSAw6v17Ettbz4OmBr0IgEVryOLbfgpC-v-qDEYo/edit?usp=sharing

Hope you can figure it out?

For now it seems Premiere is not liking exFat formatting anymore, but why is that? Few days ago: there wasn't a problem at all.

Should I try to downgrade to Pr 2024 to check?

Jan

Hi @JanVdB - Thanks for confirming the format.   

Was your media in the same folder structure as the SSD in the virtual environment?

It would be helpful if you have another external driver that is formatted as FAT32 to test.

Hi @JanVdB -  Is your virtual “internal” disk formatted differently from your external SSD?

Yes, that is correct, thanks

Hi @JanVdB - Is your virtual “internal” disk formatted differently from your external SSD? Just to make sure I understand: your media is on your 😧 drive, and when opening Premiere Pro, relinking takes a while. But when you mount a virtual disk stored on the 😧 drive, Premiere relinks everything immediately is that correct?

Hi,

I posted that earlier in this thread:

Update: I created a "virtual internal disk part" on one of my external SSD's, copy/pasted a few movs there and replaced these movs instead of the versions on the real external SSD's and... that works fine.

So the "solution" is to trick Premiere/Windows in to thinking that the external SSD is an internal SSD...

But of course that is not a great solution for the longer run...

In Windows disk manager you can create a Virtual Disk Part on any disk, internal or external, and then Windows points that part of the disk as "internal". When putting movs on that disk part, Premiere didn't have to link the files and everything ran smoothly (altough in reality the files were also on the external SSD connected through USBC)

HI @JanVdB - when you say "this afternoon I tricked Windows into thinking the external SSD was internal,"  What does this mean?

this afternoon I tricked Windows into thinking the external SSD was internal, and then there was no problem then, there was no auto-relinking

disk speed:

Hi @JanVdB -  Thanks for reaching out. Could you share a screenshot of the read/write speeds you’re seeing on your external drive? That will help us understand if the drive performance might be a factor.

When opening a project, Premiere Pro will need to relink your media, and the time it takes can vary depending on the number of files in the project and the drive’s performance.