Premiere Pro can't locate media files

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I am so angry right now that I'm the calmest I have ever been. I just spent days editing a wedding film since the wedding Saturday. Their entire family, 200+ people are supposed to watch the film tomorrow.

The Groom asked me to add something to the beginning. I pushed all the DONE FILM all the way down the timeline and add the beginning. I go to pull it back together and there are a million random missing pieces of footage and audio. I am 300 degrees mad.

How do I fixed this mess?!

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ScubaBadger · Accepted Answer

Can I go back reinstall the drivers. It only choose certain files to delete off the time line. Better yet. can i just keep hitting undo until I get back to where the the film was all still together?

The files were not lost "into" the drivers, put old drivers back on will change nothing.

Hitting undo may take you back a few steps since you last saved and closed the project.

You'd be better off looking for one of the most recent autosaves and re-starting from there.

I set my PC to autosave every 15 minutes. so the most I lose at any time (and I have moments too) is 15 minutes.

ScubaBadger · Answer

I have learned to love and hate Adobe and PP.

Most times you need to adopt an attitude of "If I do this, will PP screw me?"

So, with the good possibility it may, I do little things such as when a major step such as that which you describe above happens - I "Duplicate" the sequence that I was happy with - and work on the new addition suggested by the family / client in the duplicate.

In addition - while working on a raid drive, my autosave is saving in the project folder on the raid - so every time it autosaves - I manually save on a hard drive sitting in a separate drive in a hotswap bay.

It might help you in future.

Meantime, are the files you state are missing actually missing (deleted) or just being represented by the red place holder, in which case it may be a case of re-linking the files. Ultimately because PP may have forgotten where they are doesn't mean they are destroyed - just missing as far as PP can remember.

If you can find and re-link one - don't rely on PP auto linking the others even if you toggle it so - yesterday I had to re-link 30 files and PP didn't support the toggled auto re-link to other files in the same location - "P in the A".

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