Replacing original lab-roll media with subtitle-burned versions while preserving existing Merged Clips and sequence references.

I don’t have an answer, just curious.

I would expect the ​@Carlos Ziade method to work as you found: the bins have both versions.

I would expect the ​@PaulMurphy method to work as you want. If you renamed the computer folder so PR could not find it, and relinked the files in your bins, how could they not show in the bins?

As a test (use a copy of your project), right click on one of the files in the Project Panel and use “Replace footage”; does that work? I don’t think you can do that with multiple clips, so just a test.

Stan

1. Name the subtitle-burned versions of the lab-roll files identically to the originals, and save them to a different folder.

2. Rename the folder containing the original media so Premiere Pro can no longer locate it, taking it offline.

3. When prompted to relink, navigate to the new folder containing the subtitle-burned versions.

4. Enable File Name under Match File Properties.

5. Enable Relink Others Automatically.

First of all backup all your files and project files to a different location or storage.

Save another version of your project and work on this new version.

Import your new subtitle-burned versions of your clips.

Lock all your audio tracks.

Use Alt(Option) + Drag from the project panel to the timeline, 

so Alt + Drag each subtitle-burned clip to its corresponding clip on the timeline.

Unlock audio tracks when you finish.

You can also take a look at Automation Blocks if there is any script that

automates this for you, or maybe create your own script that does this, but

always after you backup your project and work on a new version.