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importing files with name previously used glitches the new footage.

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July 25, 2024
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I'm Using the current Beta Premiere Pro v24.6. I'm naming my files in my finder window, then importing them into a new premiere pro project. So I name a batch of 7 files for a short film I'm working on, Take 1-7, then I import them into premiere. However, I notice a file from the same angle, and sure enough, one of the files I just uploaded was an 13 second, in between, nothing shot. So I clear the footage, delete the in between shot from my files, and name everything correctly. But when I import the new file, it only lists 13 seconds, and has glitchy audio. I have to rename the file in my files with an attachment in order for it to treat it as a new file.

Ryan Fritzsche

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If I understand your situation correctly, then I'm pretty sure that the isssue is the Media Cache and Database files for the imported file need to be deleted. Although you removed the previously imported (and now deleted) file from Premiere, the cache/database/peak files created when it was imported were not, and when you bring the new file in, with the same name as the old, Premiere doesn't know it's a different file, and it references it using the old cache files.

You can just erase the cache (and restart Premiere) and that will probably do it, like @MyerPj said. But I tend to prefer to just find the offending files. I usually quit Premiere, search the Mac for the file name of the file (the database/cache files usually have the file name as part of their name) and when the database/cache files come up, delete them. Then restart Premiere, and it should re-create new cache files for the new clip.