Productions is always creating 'Recovered Clips' bin with duplicate media

[OliverFelixDear]

Hi all, I'm an assistant editor currently working on a feature doco and we have chosen to use Premiere Productions. Within the production, there are many projects but I'll simplify it by saying there is a Media project that contains the source clips, and a Sequences project that should contain sequences of all the media on a timeline. The Media project also contains the original copy of these sequences - and I am copy pasting this sequence over to the Sequences Project. When doing this, I can go into one of these sequences in the Sequences project, righ click reveal file in project - and it will take me back to the Media project as intended. However, the moment I close the Sequences Project and re-open it, a new bin named 'Recovered Clips' is filled with random clips from the sequences, and the copied sequences no longer point to the clips in the original Media Project, but to this terrible new Recovered Clips bin. Whats going on and how can I fix this?

Some other information:

-We're using Merged Clips. I know, I know, its advised that people dont use Merged Clips anymore and should use Multi-Cam clips, but we've gone down this path now and its too late to go back with the amount of logging, and assembling thats occured. The clips that appear in the Recovered Clips bin are always Merged Clips as far as I can tell (which is to say, a majority of our media). BUT there are many times that sequences filled with Merged Clips pulled into the Sequences Project never create Recovered Clips. 

-Not all clips in a sequence appear in the Recovered Clips bin, and it seems to be differant everytime. I did several tests of dragging the same sequence with a full day of media from the Media Project to the Sequences Project - then closing and reopening the project to see what clips appeared in the Recovered Clips bin that is created upon reopening the project. Always seems to be differant clips. I also noticed that it seems the longer I leave the Sequences project closed, the more Recovered Clips appear in the bin.

-Our setup is 3 iMac's connected to a shared network. The media and project files are all stored on a raid system storage that we are all connected to. 

-Initially, we were all on individual Project files that I have since collated into one Production. I did experience some problems with Recovered Clips as well during the import process, but it was minimal and I just replaced a few clips within the timeline. So perhaps there is some other issue inherant with the media not associated with us being in a Production.

Any support or suggestions on what may be causing the issue is highly appreciated! I'm not really sure how to proceed from here as we cant continuously be creating Recovered clips that arent associated with the original media.

[Mary31437702tyko]

I was having this same issue and it was driving me crazy, but finally figured out a workaround. 

Context: I'm working in Productions and have all of my media in a source media project. I have a separate project for dailies using media from the media project, and Premiere is constantly making recovered clips bins when I open my dailies project. Sometimes it's just one or two clips, sometimes it's been upward of 1000. Unlike OP and other people I've seen with this issue online, I am not using any merged clips or multicam sequences, and I haven't moved any of my projects around or brought them into productions from past projects. 

Solution: After much trial and error, I finally figured out that if I move the original source media from my media project into the dailies project where the recovered clips have generated, the recovered clips will immediately disappear. Then I'm free to move the source media back to the original media project. You have to be sure to MOVE the media and not just copy it or it won't work. Sometimes when I reopen my dailies project later it will create more recovered clips, but it's never the same number of clips and it doesn't happen every time I save and reopen the project. Seems like it must just be a bug and while it's annoying that it still happens, I just repeat this process quickly now and move on. 

Hope this helps someone!!

[jacekk]

Thanks, @Mary31437702tyko 
How do you mean 'move' and not 'copy', please?
Do you mean, in the Production, drag the original source folder from the source project into the working project, then once the recovered clips have disappeared, drag/move the folder back? Is that it?

[Mary31437702tyko]

Yep! Open the two projects in panels side by side and drag the media from the original source media project into wherever the recovered clips are. The recovered clips should disappear, and then you can drag them back to the original media project 

[jacekk]

Thank you! Worked like a charm! It's been bugging me for a couple of years. Phew.

[jacekk]

Pun intended, Mr. Adobe!