Batch Relinking proxy mov files to mxf files

[arodon7]

Hello, I'm done with my edit and am now trying to relink to my original 4k files, but the "link media" feature will only link one clip at a time.

I transcoded my original 4k mxf files in DaVinci to quicktime proxy files with the same file names. When relinking I moved my original media folder up to "trick" premiere and also unchecked file extension in the media file properties search box. Still will only link one clip. I would normally just batch relink in DaVinci but I only have the lite version, which cannot output 4k. Thank you!

[R Neil Haugen]

Typically, when relinking, you select the first properly named file showing in the list, hit ok, and PrPro does the whole folder ...

Neil

[excited_Genie16B8 · Accepted solution]

I do recommend the native Proxy work flow described below.  It just works better.

Work offline using proxy media |

For this project, Premiere Pro will only automatically relink files in the same folder, so if you have one clip per folder, you'll have to relink them all individually.

[shilpa10937223]

I'm also having a relink problem.

I had to move the Masters to make space on the hard drive, and because the project has gone on for 3 years now and I'm sending it for Post Color & Sound.

The files are linking to the Backup Folder, not the Masters.

So I tried:

1 - Select All

    - Offline All

    - Locate: File by File --> It relinks the file I have selected to the correct folder, but automatically relinks all the others to the Backup Folder, not the folder I selected.

2 - Select an individual file in the sequence timeline

   - Offline

   ----> 100 files list in the Link Media Window.  Most of these are linked to the wrong (Backup) folder.

   - I individually selected each file for Offline.

   - Then Premiere puts a gray question mark next to the file name, and I can't go back up to Locate the previous files.  The cursor doesn't move up.

    -  I tried batch Offline by selecting more than one file in the Link Media window, and same thing.

3 - I Offline'd 1 file.

   - 435 show up in the Link Media Window.

   - I relinked and located them to the "Master" folder.

   - When I open the Sequence, they are still saying "File Path" --- "Backup" folder in the MetaData.

[R Neil Haugen]

It will look in subfolders frequently during offline/relink processes. So I know some editors working heavy projects with masters and proxies "old style" had their master files in a separate folder tree from proxies  just to avoid this hassle.

Neil

[arodon7]

Did you find a workaround? Still having this issue.