PP exports fine but AME exports red "missing Media" card

Report · Jul 17, 2024

Hi Everyone,

I have been a PP editior for a long time and have seen a lot of crazy bugs etc. this one has me STUMPED.

So I Have a project, 2 camera interviews of 5 or 6 people cut together on 1 timeline, straight forward. When I go to export the sequence out in AME It exports out the red "media missing" frame for the entire video every clip.

All the media is showing on the Timeline and I checked that every piece of media in the project is linked to the correct location. I do not get the warnig that media is missing and there is no yellow triangle in AME suggesting anything is wrong until it starts to export and I see its the red card. If I export directly from PP all works as it should.

to troubleshoot I have:

1. cleared cache both through PP & AME and by hand in the assigned media cache folder and the default location PP & AME would put the media cache.

2. I have un-linked and re-linked all the media for the project.

3. Manually deleted all Temp files

4. Moved media to a different drive and relinked all media.

5. Started a new project and imported the sequence into the new project.

Oddly eneough in the new project if I import the same media put it on a timeline I have no problems. If I use the media that was brought in from the import sequence in other sequences no problem. BUT if I copy and paste my entire edited timeline to a new timeline in the new project I get the red screen on export ( same media) I am at a loss.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Darrell

Report · Jul 17, 2024

Projects and seqeunces in Premiere are "simply" metadata lists, that's all they are. There's apparnetly a bit of "off" metadata in the sequence for that sequence that doesn't stump Pr but does stump Me.

In such cases the first thing to try is in Me's preferences, de-select "import sequences natively" ... and that often fixes this kind of thing.

Report · Jul 17, 2024

Hi Neil,

I was hoping you would chime in as you normally have all the answers!

I have tried that already to no avail. It is starting to litterally drive me nuts. So I had to keep working and started a new sequence for a new interview from the source interviews. After the edit I decide to export just to see and it exports out. So I thought ok, just some glitch somewhere in the sequence data inside the project file as you suggested. I have to exprt that sequence again because I made a tweak and now it gives me the red media missing again.

I thought of starting over but I already have about 40 individual multicam interviews synced together and I do not want to have to redo all that work. I guess I amjust exporting these outthrough PP.

I hate when sh*t does not work like it should!

Darrel

Report · Jul 17, 2024

Totally understood! There's often glitches between Pr/Ae, or Pr/Au, or Pr/Me, and any time there are, it is annoying.

Somewhere in that sequence, there's a glitch/hiccup. You might try copy/paste of shorter segments. Then narrow down, as the segments that copy/paste without issue are fine. The one that when done, gives you "red" ... that's the section that may need rebuilding.