For my line of work, I need to open an old Premiere project on occasion to edit something that was originally completed anywhere from six months to three years ago. Most of the time, I save it as a new version to be compatible with the current version of Premiere and go about my merry way with no issues.
However, occasionally I will open a sequence from an old project and every clip on the timeline will start at the beginning of the timecode. In other words, all the in/out points are messed up with audio and video both starting from 0:00:00 in the media file. In the most recent case of this happening, only one of four sequences in the project was affected.
On my team, we store all of our projects on a network server and keep everything very well organized. Edits to any given project may be done from multiple machines but all are connected to the same server and accessing the project file from the same location.
I've tried many things to try and solve/revert this issue in the affected projects: installing the older version of Premiere the original edit was made in, copying the whole project to a local drive (taking it off the network), sending files offline and relinking (saw someone else had success with this), and exporting the XML, then imported that XML into a new Premiere project. None of these were successful. I'm tired of opening old projects only to find they're completely lost unless I want to spend hours and hours repositioning the in/out points of every single clip.
Has anyone else experienced this?
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