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Hi there.
So, last night I started rendering a video, and I didn't realize that the output name was by default the same name of one of the main clips in my composition. Premiere didn't give me any warning or overwrite popup, so I didn't notice. It started rendering, but I guess it deleted the original file in order to be able to save the render with that same name. Result: all the clips that used that original file where rendered without audio and without media.
I saw it this morning, and I have been trying to recover it anyway I can imagine... In my project folder I have a "Adobe Premiere Pro Video Previews" with the full nice video (but no audio). And in the "Adobe Premiere Pro Audio Previews" I have lot of audio files that I can't use apparently.
Even in the timeline, I still can see the video that was on the deleted file (it must be taking it from the cache) but the audio is not working, it just can't load it.
Anyone has any hint on a fix for this? I don't have the original media anymore, I tried restoring it from the camera's SD card but it didn't work. I haven't even closed Premiere yet, in case it's still there somewhere in the cache. I proccessed the whole sequence before rendering it, so the cache must be the perfect version, but I just can't load the audio.
Thanks!
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Video Preview files are what they are: just video.
The audio previews is AFAIK unusable.
Copy the sd card first so the harddrive (rename or add a _1) then try to replace.
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?? The SD Card doesn't have the source files anymore, nor are they restorable.
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?? The SD Card doesn't have the source files anymore, nor are they restorable.
By @RayJaKen
Unfortunately, without backups, you won't be able to recover the overwritten files without specialized recovery software.