My source file just dissapeared 'cause of rendering in Premiere Pro 2020

[marcins7360654]

I opened a new project in Premiere Pro 2019. I imported all the files that I needed. I was editing for like 3 hours or something like that. I saved the project. Then I opened this same project in Premiere Pro 2020. Everything was good. I ended edit this material. I saved the project. Everything was good. I started to render and in the beginning of rendering Premiere couldn't find my source file (the same video file I used in editing and that same video was there few seconds ago). I closed rendering panel and looked in the folder where the video was. But unfortunatelly it wasn't there. I don't know what happened. I think Premiere just deleted my source video in encoding process. I didin't have ccopy of that video.

[Michael Grenadier]

or you had some kind of disk corruption issue which may or may not have anything to do with Premiere.  Are you on the mac or pc?  I'm a mac person so you might want to run diskutility on the media drive (after quitting Premiere).  You might also do a finder search for the file name of the missing file.  Maybe it got moved...  

[marcins7360654]

I'm on pc. I tried to find this file with windows search app and it looks like that file is no more on my computer.

[Michael Grenadier]

sorry for your loss...  but we can learn from our mistakes (this is the voice of experience speaking).  Always make sure you have your media backed up.   Remember, every hard drive will fail (including SSD's), it's not a question of "if" it's a question of "when."

I'm not a pc person, but there may be diskutilities that can restore lost files.  You might do some googling.  

[Mo Moolla]

Premiere wouldn't just delete a video file.

Have alook back and retrace yiur steps a little

Perhaps it was a subclip that was used and accidentally erased by the user

Mo