Better Proxy Relinking

@1050758 Kodner sorry to hear it didn't work out, this method worked for me.

@Porous Freak that does not solve it. i've tried that

Hi everyone,

For those dealing with this in 2022 I have found a solution that does not require you to re-ingest your proxies. Upon opening your project, offline the proxies and wait for Premiere to load. Once in the project, go to where your media bin is and right click to select "Attach proxies." If you have your proxies written to the same drive in a separate folder like I do, link to that folder and you should be re-attached. Hope this helps!

Adding my shrieking voice to this thread. What ABSOLUTE nonsense it is that a project created on one computer cannot open on another computer without a host of these audio channel mismatches. It should just work.

I've got 60+ files that I need to manually reingest and send back to my fellow editor in the hopes that we can share the project easily.

This is why I stay in Avid land 99% of the time.

Having major issues with my projects as well. WORKS FINE when I set it up, using the Premiere Proxies workflow. As soon as I copy this all to a new harddrive for another editor, DISASTER. MEDIA OFFLINE. The proxies cannot connect, due to different audio channels, BUT PREMIERE CREATED THOSE PROXIES USING ITS OWN PROCESS and it WORKED BEFORE.

WTF IS GOING ON?

If proxies were working last time I opened Premiere Pro, and nothing has changed or moved, why do I now need to manually link them one by one?

PLEASE FIX THIS!

See Benjamin Morgan and Kyle Kosaki’s comments for the workaround. It would be great if there could be a “base ingest preset on source audio channels” checkbox, but as of now there isn’t, so you have to do it manually before making your proxies.

Hey everyone! Kyle Kosaki's comment is the actual fix! Look down to his comment and there are two photos that show where to find your original file's Audio Info and the Media Encoder Preset Settings Audio Tab.

In your project bin, it is found in the metadata listed as Audio Info. If you don't see that in your bin, go to your Metadata Display settings and add Audio Info there and then take a look. Your media encoder preset and/or ingest settings have to have the same number of audio tracks and type, as well as same frequency and bitrate. So if your preset says 1 Stereo track, 16 bit and your footage has 2 Mono tracks at 24 bit, before making your proxies, change the audio tab in your Media Encoder preset to reflect the exact frequency, bitrate and number of tracks and TYPE of tracks to your original footage. If you've already created your proxies and created Merged Clips, not all is lost! Recreate your proxies from the RAW, or original files, then reopen your Premiere Project. When you receive the Locate dialog for your Merged Clips, find the new proxies you just created and it should be able to relink them to the Merged Clips. I just tried this and it worked for me!

For the love of all things good and holy, THIS. Please!