I am editing a large production with multiple episodes using the Productions feature. I have created a separate project file that just contains all the raw footage and project files for each individual episode (plus project files for graphics, music, etc.). I am mostly editing on a separate proxy drive, but sometimes I attach the big drive and sync up all the project files depending on which was the last drive I was editing with. That has been working fine for me for the last 6 weeks.
A couple of days ago, Premiere crashed when I was using the main drive, and then I started getting this error message that "This Production comtains projects with duplicate IDs, which will interfere with tracking media across projects." I couldn't figure out where the duplicate ID project was, it was saying it was in the proxy drive, but the proxy drive wasn't attached. Today, I was using the main drive and everything was working normally and fine. I saved everything over to and started using the proxy drive, and I opened up my FOOTAGE project file, but the contents were now that of one of the episode files. None of my footage was being listed, just timelines from the episode project file. When I open up one of the episode files and click on a clip in a timeline and say "Show in Project," it tells me that the media is missing and must have been deleted from the production. I went into auto-save to find an older version of my footage project file, but they all open the same way. I unplugged the proxy drive and plugged the main drive back in. Same thing. I restarted the computer. Nothing changes and now I'm a bit freaked out.
WHERE IS ALL MY FOOTAGE WHICH IS LINKED ACROSS 10 EPISODES AND TRAILERS AND CLIPS??? WHY DID THE PROJECT FILE SAVE AS SOMETHING TOTALLY DIFFERENT?? WHY ARE OLDER VERSIONS OF THIS PROJECT FILE SHOWING ME THE SAME THING???
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