Efficient way to replace footage

[Corniger]

Hey there,

I was using Premiere to mix photos with live footage and did a preliminary comp. After approval, I edited the images and exported them, replacing the ones previously used for the Premiere project.

Now I have to click on every single image I edited (filenames are exactly the same), "replace footage", go through 8 levels of folders (I copied the path to save that extra hour) to exactly the file that is, pretty much, part of the project anyway.

1) is there a more intelligent way to batch replace lots of different footage files, like images?

2) probably a Windows thing, but why won't it remember the folder and instead always goes back to the video folder? 

There must be a smarter way, delete the cache?  

[Richard van den Boogaard · Accepted solution]

Have you tried making all the material offline and then relink one of the assets? Usually, PPro is intelligent enough to find the missing clips....

[Corniger]

That sounds like an excellent workaround.

Though I'd prefer sort of an intelligent function, like in InDesign - if one linked file gets altered in the slightest way, you get a warning and can update the file in one click. CS4, btw...

[Richard van den Boogaard]

The link media option has been there since - I'm guessing here - CS6 too...

But if you have ideas on how to improve the feature, please feel free to use the option Help > Provide feedback ... from the program menu.

Cheers.

[Corniger]

"Link Media" obviously slipped me, wrongly assuming everything worked like InDesign. I'll check it out asap.

Much appreciated, thank you!