Crazy AME missing media issue

[10Eighteen Media]

Hi Everyone,

I have been a PP editior for a long time and have seen a lot of crazy bugs etc. this one has me STUMPED.

So I Have a project, 2 camera interviews of 5 or 6 people cut together on 1 timeline, straight forward. When I go to export the sequence out in AME It exports out the red "media missing"  frame for the entire video every clip.

All the media is showing on the Timeline and I checked that every piece of media in the project is linked to the correct location. I do not get the warnig that media is missing and there is no yellow triangle in AME suggesting anything is wrong until it starts to export and I see its the red card. If I export directly from PP all works as it should.

to troubleshoot I have:

1. cleared cache both through PP & AME and by hand in the assigned media cache folder and the default location PP & AME would put the media cache.

2. I have un-linked and re-linked all the media for the project.

3. Manually deleted all Temp files

4. Moved media to a different drive and relinked all media.

5. Started a new project and imported the sequence into the new project.

Oddly eneough in the new project if I import the same media put it on a timeline I have no problems. If I use the media that was brought in from the import sequence in other sequences no problem. BUT if I copy and paste my entire edited timeline to a new timeline in the new project I get the red screen on export ( same media) I am at a loss.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Darrell

[MyerPj]

You might try checking or unchecking this option in AME

[PaulMurphy]

Also, where is your media stored?

[10Eighteen Media]

Hi Paul,

I store my media in a few places, always in their own drive. The project that is active the media is on an NVME solid state drive. I also have external spinning drives where I keep backup copies and such. I have a seperate SSD drive for Cache files and previews and I have another SSD drive where ai keep only project files.

In PP if you right click a clip and select revealin exploroer it takes you to the right place.

[PaulMurphy]

I'd be interested to know the connection to the SSD for the media cache. Is it through USB, Thunderbolt, or another interface?

[10Eighteen Media]

The ssd I use for media cache is  wired to the motherboard through SATA.

Darrell

[10Eighteen Media]

Thanks Myer, but this did not help

[MyerPj]

Just checking, do you have drive letters assigned to those various drives, so they are always the same.

[10Eighteen Media]

yes sir. Same drive letters all the time. The media is where it started (except when I moved it to test)