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Ashley Thayer
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December 1, 2020
Question

Premiere Pro 14.6 shows clips w/ "danger stripes" after moving media to another drive

  • December 1, 2020
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I COPIED MY PROJECT ON TO A NEW DRIVE TO HAVE IT BACKED UP. The sequences are randomly now screwed up with weird banding in the timelines- see photo- this is all footage for a feature and under a deadline. It retroactively screwed up the original sequences as well. About a year's worth of work. Please tell me there is a way to fix this!!!

 

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Warren Heaton
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December 1, 2020

Just for clarification, are you opening the project with the source footage still in the original location?  Or are you opening the project and the files on the backup (maybe even on a different computer)?

 

This will take some patience, but it's worked for me in the past.  Open the project file with the media offline and do a File > Save As.  Append something to the file name like "_please_work".  When I did this, I moved the project file from the external drive to the desktop and then unmounted the external drive.  Then I opened the project making all the media offline and then put the Save As also on the Desktop.  I then reconnected the external drive, opened the Save As project file, and took the time to relink the media, checking it as I go (so, not all in one pass).  

 

For some clips, I would use Replace Footage instead of Link Media.

 

Since you mention that the original sequences also have trouble, it may be worth opening a recent auto-save to spot check it to see if the issue is presenting itself there as well.

 

Lastly, how did you do the backup?  Manual drag and drop?  A copy utility like Carbon Copy Clone or EaseUS?  And, is the LaCie drive formatted the same way as the original drive?  So, ExFAT going to ExFAT or HFS+ going to HFS+?  Reviewing this may prevent issues in the future.  When I ran into stripes in the clip boundaries, it was a project that had been uploaded to Google Drive and then downloaded and it was mostly AVCHD footage that was not reconnecting correctly.

Warren Heaton
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Community Expert
December 1, 2020

Forgot to mention, I did the relinking from the Project panel, not the Link Media dialog box.

Legend
December 1, 2020

Please tell us your system specs: OS version, Premiere version, amount of RAM, Hardware specs including graphics card.  was the new drive formatted the same as the source drive and is the folder structure the same?  If you're on the mac, I'd suggest you use a cloning program to exactly match the same folder structure so that if you rename the new drive to match the old drive, everything should relink without issues. 

Ashley Thayer
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December 1, 2020

Hi, I answered these in the reply to Kevin. Thanks!

Legend
December 1, 2020

Adding and "x" is a good approach.

 

I've always used "drivename" and "drivename_backup" or "drivename_clone".

 

As great as Premiere Pro is, I really miss Final Cut Pro 7.  


yeah, "x" is way fewer keystrokes and I also miss fcp7.  started on fcp1...    but relinking is much much better in premiere...

Community Expert
December 1, 2020

Usually I see this happen when there is multiple instances of very similarly named media on a drive. Do you have other similarly named clips on your drive? When it goes looking for the clips it can load in the incorrect ones, at least in the situations I've been in like this. I've had to be sure that the files are uniquely named and then relink them.

Ashley Thayer
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December 1, 2020

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. Wow. I have soooo many clips. They might have the same prefix, but differing numbers, ex. _01, _02.

Premiere should be able to pick up on this! UGH!

I also am very confused why it would do it to my original files. I'm going to have to walk away from my computer for a while. Thinking about renaming everything makes me want to throw my computer against the wall and go work on Wall Street.

Can't help but vent a bit over this. But thank you. Lets see if anyone else has a magic wand... 🙂

Ash

Community Expert
December 1, 2020

Yeah, the time I remember having to do this the clips were all part of a large project and they had very generic names (like Clip_001, 002, etc.) so on loading the project I would just get a completely random assortment of videos coming in. I had to go in and rename the clips at the folder level and then relink them. It was extremely frustrating to say the least. Hopefully you don't have to resort to that.

The first thing I would try is to offline the clips in Premiere and then relink them in small batches. Hopefully they are somewhat organized on your hard drive and not just sitting in a huge pile. If they are disorganized you may want to add to your folder structure in some way, perhaps adding folders for shoot days, subject-matter, etc.

You may also want to clear your media cache.