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johnm1530
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November 19, 2017
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Recovering Earlier Project Version

  • November 19, 2017
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I've been working to complete the sound design for a short film of mine. I've worked with the audio tracks extensively. Recently I brought it to a friend who is a sound mixer to help me finish the project. He gave it an assessment, and determined that it would be best to start the mixing process with unaltered audio tracks, basically from square one. Rather than having to replace each audio track I've done work to, I know that there is a way to locate earlier versions of the project through project auto save. Basically, I would need to locate a version of the film from about three weeks ago.

     I believe that there is a way to do this through scratch disks via project settings, but when I browse project auto save, the auto saves from the past two months are not there, and I'm quite sure I did not change my settings to delete media after a certain period of time, so it should all still be there. Can someone explain to me the easiest way to locate an earlier version of my project?

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Inspiring
November 19, 2017

If your sound mixer is going to use ProTools to mix your film, then you don't have to return to an earlier version.

Just export an OMF.

All your original source file will be copied for the mixer use. You can add handles so that there is head and tail trim for your sound editor to work with.

When the OMF is loaded into ProTools, the engineer can quickly turn off any mixing you have done and just have the native files in sync with the video as called for by your sequence.

MtD

John T Smith
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Community Expert
November 19, 2017

This might be better answered in the forum for the program you are using

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johnm1530
johnm1530Author
Participant
November 19, 2017

Yes.  Adobe Premiere Pro

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 19, 2017

I hope for your sake you kept backups of your  raw media files on external drives or Dropbox just in case.

Nancy

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert