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BaxterBeast
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April 18, 2014
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Link Media on Network drive in Premiere Pro CC

  • April 18, 2014
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Hi there. In premiere pro CC, I'm trying to link media that has been changed or moved to a project. The media I'm looking for is on a network drive. When I click on "locate media" I am unable to browse to the netwok drive as there are simply no drives showing up under the "network drives" dropdown. Any ideas on how to make Permiere see my network to locate these files? Thanks in advance. BB.

      Correct answer RichardB99-bbh2ia

      Just switch off 'Use Media Browser' in the Link Media dialog box, Premiere then uses Explorer (WIN) or Finder (macOS) and you can find your network drives (and your locally attached drives) in the normal way.


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      John T Smith
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      John T SmithCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      April 19, 2014

      Some/all? versions of Premiere do not work properly, if at all, over a network

      -see messages #1 and #3 in http://forums.adobe.com/thread/771151

      -you MUST give all users administrator accounts to use Premiere

      -and especially Encore dual layer http://forums.adobe.com/thread/969395

      -#5 Server 2008 is UNsupported http://forums.adobe.com/thread/851602

      -a work around, of sorts http://forums.adobe.com/thread/957523

      -and not on a "domain" http://forums.adobe.com/thread/858977

      -http://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/kb/networks-removable-media-dva.html

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      matthewh35044921
      Participant
      July 17, 2023

      A shortcut didn't work for me.

      Deselecting "Use Media Browser" in the Link Media browser box kind of worked, but it was making me link each file and not relinking automatically. And yes, "Relink Automatically" was selected. Given that there was hundreds of files to relink, it was impractical to relink them one-by-one.

      The solution for me was inspired by John T Smith's answer. I needed to go to "Security & Privacy" in "System Settings" and under "Privacy" -> "Full Disk Access". I needed to add Premiere to this list. First you have to unlock the settings by clicking on the lock in the bottom left. Then you click the plus sign and add Adobe Premiere (navigate to Premiere through the Finder).

      Once I did that, everything relinked right away.

      PressPlay Video Team
      PressPlay Video Team
      Participant
      October 10, 2023

      We work with a NAS server. And since I have a new computer Premiere Pro crashes as soon as I open an old timeline. It seems like premiere can't find the files from the server. I can't even link myself because premiere crashes right away. So there is no error message but it crashes right away. Does anyone have a solution for this? On the other computers it works this way.

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      excited_Genie16B8
      Legend
      April 19, 2014

      Honestly, outside of using Adobe Anywhere, the better option is usually to keep everything local.  Use network drives only for backup.

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