Consolidate duplicates does not work

[shakespit]

I have big project with some dupes in it. So when I try to use "Edit > Consolidate Duplicates" it does nothing.

So I ended up cleaning all project to three clips that are linked to exact same raw footage, no proxies attached and I nothing else in project panel, just those three clips:

Still "Consolidate Duplicates" does nothing. Maybe I should look for some other places where Premiere thinks that those are different clips? Any ideas?

[Aldy Waani]

It's not working on my mac running 23.4.0

but its working on my team running 23.1.0

tried both new projects and projects with XML imported.

[_Spliced]

I wanted to echo what maiathesun says here. I banged my head against the wall trying to get this working again and his 'Modify' tip worked.  My example is I already had footage imported in Premiere. I wanted to import an XML from Resolve that had some edits. I import the XML, it creates duplicate clips. I run Consolidate Duplicates, it doesn't work....

First I tried modify > Audio channels on the newly imported clips from the Resolve XML.  This didn't work either. Then I noticed the Resolve clips had Mono 2 channel selected.  But the clips I had already imported had Stereo 2 channel selected.  I ran Modify > Audio Channels on my original imported footage, changed the audio channels to match new resolve clips. Ran Consolidate Duplicates again, and it worked!  It removed all of the newly imported clips, keeping my originals intact and the edits in the new sequence using the single reference of the clip. Hope this helps someone. 

[R Neil Haugen]

Thanks for the detailed post!

[Rashad Wells]

Here's what worked for me:

I needed to consolidate a variety of videos, audio, and images, and "Consolidate Duplicates" wasn't working. So, I created three search bins:

• Searchbin 1: Metadata - Media Type | Find: "Movie" OR Metadata - Media Type | Find: "Audio" (to gather all videos and audio in one search bin)
• Searchbin 2: Metadata - Media Type | Find: "still image" (to gather all images)
• Searchbin 3: Metadata - Media Type | Find: "offline" (to gather all the offline files I was about to make)
  
  

These search bins captured everything, including duplicates. Then, I selected all the files in "Searchbin 1" and made them offline. I did the same for "Searchbin 2"

All the files then appeared in "Searchbin 3" as offline files. I selected everything and used the "Link Media" option. After linking, the "Consolidate Duplicates" feature worked perfectly and consolidated everything. Finally, I deleted the search bins.

It's worth mentioning that in the Link Media panel, I had "Relink others automatically" enabled, so I only had to link one, and the others linked instantly.

[Path 88 Productions]

Brillinat.  In the world of "work around" solutons for Premiere, that's a fix that's like traversing the globe --but as long as it works!

So it seems like if even one simple quantum of meta data is different between a media clips Premiere refuses to see it as the "same" and won't consolidate.  You process is basically nuking the meta data and giving Premiere a fresh look at the files.

Good job.

[joseph_0716]

Check the path of the duplicate files. Prpro do this weird thing with the paths after importing. Unlink and relink all the duplicates. Need to close project and reopen in order for CD to work!