Adobe Premiere Pro Cannot Link Familiar File with 2/1 Audio Channels

Report · Mar 28, 2020

Hi there. I'm re-editing a video project in Adobe Premiere Pro that I haven't touched since 2018. Premiere has undergone some updates since then.

All my files are exactly where and how I left them, on this project has its own secure external drive.

However, two of my video files will not load correctly.

When I open the project, it says for each of these two video files, "The selected file cannot be linked because it has 1 audio channel(s) and the clip was created with 2 audio channel(s) with a different channel type."

Please help me. I have no idea why it's doing this or how to fix it. Every file is the same as it was before.

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Report · Aug 25, 2022

What worked for me was to cancel the first re-link window you get when first opening the project and then re-link each clip individually by right clicking on them in my timeline. It took a bit more time, but at least I didn't have to re build my whole edit from the ground up!

Report · Sep 09, 2022

Late but I found a solution!

Import the clip into the bin -> right click -> modify -> audio channels -> set to however many channels you need -> export

Then reopen the project and locate the file with the proper ammount of channels and you shoul be set!

Report · Nov 25, 2023

No need to export and re import.

Import the clip into the bin -> right click -> modify -> audio channels -> set to however many channels you need -> Link Media and Done! Thank you for this.

Report · Nov 10, 2022

So i had a project with lots of material 10 days worth of filming.

Also i did not have the RAW available, but found a quite quick solution.

I marked all clips in project - found one that was offline, right clicked and chose attach proxies.
Then you can point it all in the right direction and click search and it should find all the files-
Might have to do this search process a few times in each folder if proxies are in separate folders

Report · Feb 01, 2023

SOLUTION

Here is a solution that worked for me. Can’t understand Adobe don’t solve these kind of problems themselves. Basically what you need to do, is to make new proxies with the right amount of audio-channels that Premiere requests when trying to link the files.

To do this I used DaVinci Resolve as it is free and renders fast.

- Go to File > Project Settings… and set the project Fps and proxy-settings so that they match your proxies (in my case 25fps, ProresProxy)

- Import all you proxies into resolve, into the media pool.

- select all clips and right-click to select - Clip Attributes

- Under the audio-tab , add extra audio-channels so the total number match what premiere wants. All channels should be mono (in my case the proxies had 2 audio-channels, and wanted 5, so I mad a total of 5 mono channels making the total amount af channels 5)

- Select all files, right-click and choose … generate proxies.

Then all you have to do is to wait until the new proxies are generated, which should be pretty fast if the settings match. Hope it works for you too.

Report · Jun 13, 2023

Ran into this same issue and the fix was to offline all the proxies that premiere didn't want to attach and once the project was open. "Right click > Attach proxies" on the files with the issue and for some reason it does attach them once you get past the locate files before the project is open.

This feels more like a glitch than an actual issue with the proxies and/or channel count on the proxies. Adobe should fix this ASAP.

Report · Nov 27, 2023

I just had this issue today, Nov. 27, 2023. Not sure if it was due to the update (to 24.0.3) or maybe because my drives changed paths, but reverting to the previous version (24.0) did not work. What is working is re-attaching proxies once I've opened the project, and fortunately I am able to do this in batches and not one clip at a time ie. select all clips with unattached proxies in a bin -> right click -> Proxy -> Attach Proxy.

Report · Jan 03, 2024

HOW IS THIS STILL A PROBLEM. I made proxies for an entire project on a SSD for my colleague and I to work together. I exported the proxies on the same drive and it's doing this. WTF ADOBE. RETHREAD AND REVAMP YOUR ENTIRE SOFTWARE.

Report · Sep 10, 2024

IT'S STILL PROBLEM ADOBE GIVE MY MONEY BACK