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April 19, 2017
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Exporting AAF/EDL and reimporting timeline linked to different footage?

  • April 19, 2017
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Hello everyone-

I've done this in Avid Media composer before, but never in Premiere. I hope it is possible!

My friend is editing a project that was shot in AVCHD. Rather than transcoding her original footage, she imported those AVCHDs directly into Premiere and has been editing for at least 2 months now. Now, it is giving her a lot of problems, but I won't open that can of worms in this thread.

I am now going to transcode all of her AVCHD video files into ProRes 422 with the same names.

I am then hoping to be able to export her old timeline as some sort of meta-data output, like an EDL or an AAF, something that doesn't necessarily have the video attached to the file (aka it has offline media), but instead something that allows me to relink the footage to whatever I want. The goal is to import this EDL/AAF/something else into a new Premiere project, and then link all that "offline media" to the new transcoded ProRes 422 footage.

I tried exporting and reimporting both EDLs and AAFs, but I'm obviously doing something super wrong. It's not giving me a timeline at all, but instead I'm just getting the bins with the footage already linked.... strange.

TL;DR - Can I export a Premiere timeline with offline media and relink it to footage with a different codec in a new Premiere project?

Thank you in advance for your help!

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    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
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    April 19, 2017

    Have you tried simply renaming the folder of the old media, starting up the project, when you get the "offline locator" dialog, relinking to the transcodes? You can make sure the option to relink only when the extension is the same is not checked, so it doesn't even look at the file type.

    You can also create a new project, and from that project, import the old project file ... that normally works rather nicely. I wouldn't try an AAF/EDL route except as a last resort.

    Neil

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