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jenna bush
jenna bush
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July 31, 2022
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Source media not found in any of the open projects

  • July 31, 2022
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I'm using Productions for the first time.  I have a large documentary film that I broke up into multiple projects within Productions.  I sorted everything by topic and some sequences reference clips in other pojects.  Everything is working great so far and playing well in the timelines.  However there are some clips when I right click "reveal in project" it tells me that the source media is not in the project.  It asks to search all open projects.  Then it automatically opens the project where I know the file is, but stops there. I get the error message "The source media is not found in any of the open projects."  Even though I can manually navigate to the clip in the now open project, Premiere can't seem to find it on it's own.  Which also means I can't view the full clip in the source window in a way that shows me exactly where the clip in my timeline is from.  Still it plays the clip perfectly fine in the timeline and is able to locate the clip in finder.  Is there a way to tell Premiere where this file is in the project?  I did use the consolidate duplicates feature.  Perhaps this did something?  The screenshot shows the error message as well as the clip in the project window that I manually navigated to after the fact (0001OT). Thanks!

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    Acion
    Participating Frequently
    May 29, 2024

    This is happening to me now. I have a production I've been building for a while with daily output. It's incredibly annoying and a production breaking bug for me.

     

    I'm going to have to stop using Premiere because of this. I've tried resetting the media. Changing file names. I have too much media and too much work to do deal with this. I trusted a lot of my time and work to Adobe Premiere and now it's corrupting my work and my projects. I hope you have a fix soon. I'm going to ask my YouTube channel if they know. They expect daily videos. This really screws up my trust in Adobe to be able to support even the tasks it supported the day before. Produced 300 videos this way and now its falling apart and corrupting my work.

     

    What an unexpected and terrible disappointment.

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    Jane28708435jkl5
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    March 1, 2024

    I am also wondering if there's a way to tell premeire where to find the clips. For a different reason than the original post. I had an AE sync clips remotely and am trying to import the multicam groups and sequences made into my project. It bring in all of the media files again, though. So I have duplicates in the project. I have marked up some clips and make other multicam groups from the same day's media, so I can't just delete the original clips and use the newly imported ones. So yeah, is there a way to make premeire re-connect to the new clips of the same name and info?

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      Warren Heaton10841144Community Expert
      Community Expert
      May 29, 2024

      @Jane28708435jkl5 

      Hi, Jane.  Sorry to see that your question went unanswered.  

      You can right-click any clip and choose Replace Footage to link it to a duplicate clip in the Finder or Explorer that's in a different location.

      Another approach would be move or delete the duplicates in the Finder or Explorer while the project is not open and then use the Relink dialog box to connect the source footage that you prefer to be using.

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        Acion
        Participating Frequently
        May 29, 2024

        @Jane28708435jkl5  I did the rename and relink source footage and it doesn't last. It broke again. It worked momentarily. It's literally breaking my production that I've been releasing daily videos from. Today marks another day of totally losing trust in Adobe products. Why use a software that will randomly delete your work? It's literally useless now.

         

        The best approach would be to use software that does what is says and doesn't disrespect your work by deleting it. How about building software people can trust rather than "a work around" or maybe another thing that might work. Adobe treats it's customers so terribly. Ooops we deleted your work, now pay us the monopolistic monthly fee because you can't quit, right?

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