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Mobius Strip
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July 22, 2017
Question

How do I relink footage that ISN'T missing?

  • July 22, 2017
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Hi all.

It seems that this would be a very, very common situation: I've used the Project Manager to copy all the clips used in a project to a new directory. I've color-corrected all of them in my color-correcting application (in this case, Resolve). Then I've rendered them all out with the same names to a new directory.

How do I re-link all of the clips in my Premiere project to those in the color-corrected directory? "Replace footage" is disabled when multiple files are selected.

Thanks!

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Mobius StripAuthor
Known Participant
July 25, 2018

May have lost an opportunity to have our series picked up thanks to delays from this glaring defect and other inexcusable basic-workflow failures in Premiere.

And there's no real bug-reporting mechanism anymore, which is especially despicable since we're all renting this software and PAYING PER MONTH.

There is no excuse.

More brilliance: The Link Media dialog claims to have found some files in directories that don't exist. Look at these paths; they are nonsense:

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excited_Genie16B8
Legend
July 22, 2017

With Premiere Pro closed, rename the media folder.  When you reopen the project, PP will ask where the media is.  Point it to the new files.

Jogen
Jogen
Inspiring
July 22, 2017

Hello Mobius,

select your files -> right click -> media offline.

Now you can link (-> right click -> relink media) to your colored files.

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    Mobius StripAuthor
    Known Participant
    July 22, 2017

    Very helpful.

    But also sadly revealing of Premiere's baffling immaturity.

    All of the source files are MP4s.  Of course, after color-correcting, I'm not going to recompress to crappy H.264, so I've rendered out to ProRes HQ.  Thus... all of the filename extensions are different.  The source clips are all .MP4, whereas all the color-corrected ones are .mov.

    But Premiere doesn't offer the option to ignore filename extensions when locating offline files.  Seriously?  This is such a predictable scenario.

    Even worse, if you select "Locate" for the offline files and select the directory that contains all the color-corrected files, Premiere will simply reconnect to the original files in a totally different location without telling you.  So you might think you're playing the color-corrected files, but in fact you're playing the original files that you just said were offline.

    Unbelievable.  What version of the software is this?  20?

    yairb999
    yairb999
    Inspiring
    July 22, 2017

    From my experience, before you select "Locate" and select the right directory, move the old directory far far away... .

    How far? Such that PP will not find it...

    Later on, after PP registered the new directory's files, you may return the old directory.

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