Hi all,
This is a somewhat complicated issue, so I'll do my best to be brief and thorough.
I edited a television series on FCP long ago. When they moved to FXPX, I moved to Adobe and haven't looked back. Before I did so, I exported XML files of all of the sequences of my first series, and have been waiting to tackle them, because I knew many assets would have issues due to the move to Premiere (motion files, etc.). What I did not expect is that my video files would not link due to "file import failure".
I'm still using OS Mojave, and as a result am still in Premiere 13.1.2. I'm not updating until I get this sorted, mostly bc I understand that I can't import footage using Firewire in the new iteration, and I need to do that for this specific series.
My files are all mostly .mov files, nothing special. Some of them link, some of them don't.
When I go to relink one clip, for indstance, it will take me to the folder where the clip is, but it won't show the clip--even though it's there--as an option to relink. Here is a screenshot of this. You can see the file I'm trying to relink is called "Philadelphia sights and sounds1-11". The file is IN the file where it's looking--see to the right--but when I go to relink it, that file is NOT among those found.
When I try to Replace Footage, it tells me the footage is in a file format that is not supported. Even though it's an mov file like everything else.
I'm not sure how to proceed with this, aside form reediting this whole thing...
Any advice would be appreciated! Thank you!
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Hi Rob, thank you so much for your response!
Ok, so I took another screenshot, showing the following:
1. the files that Premiere finds when I try to relink the clip.
2. the info properties of the clip I WANT to link
3. the info properties of a clip that Premiere finds.
BOTH clips are MPEG-2 Quicktime movies. They're both shot on the same day, same camera, same location. Yet Premiere FINDS one and links to it, but not the other.
Hence my confusion.
If the file format was the issue, wouldn't it refuse both?
Thanks!
Here are close ups. This shot shows how the shot I'm trying to link to (the one called "Philadelphia sights and sounds-11") is the same format as another shot that Premiere finds when I try to link the file.
Here is a screenshot of the linking dialogue, showing how Premiere only finds THREE files in a folder that has many more files of the same file format (and all shot on the same day, with the same camera).
So, again, my question is why is Premiere only finding SOME of the files, but not the one I want it to link, when they are ALL the same format?
And when I try to REPLACE the file, it tells me it's the wrong file format, which makes absolutely no sense, since it's finding and linking to other files of the exact same format.
Thanks!
yup. that solved it.
🙂 moving on...
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