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Relinking preview files, possible?
Hi, I have a project that was fully rendered and now it shows only a portion of it has been rendered, however, I don’t recall changing the project anywhere. If anything, the only change that took place was when I put the external hard drive that held the project in another system to get some data off of it and then put it back in the original computer, both times safely removing the drive.
Is there a ways to relink the previews or at least force the linking of such previews?
Thanks in advance.
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7 Replies
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Yes, when the program asks you where is file so and so, you will have to find it and select it. The rest will follow.
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In my circumstance, when I open the project file it does not ask me for anything. It opens all the files where they are supposed to be. Thus, I don’t get the chance to select the preview files.
This is why I would like to force the relink if possible.
Mikkell Khan
Director
Diamond Films Ltd. (Trinidad and Tobago) -
I have no idea how to relink preview files if not asked on opening the project.
Are they that important? You could render the timeline again for preview but dont use them on export, use Max Render Quality instead if you do not have MPE. -
Well, they would be time savers. Right now we are exporting stuff for review and have magic bullet looks. But we should not use preview scenes for final as this would not be of a high quality?
I am exporting in mpeg quality 4, would this matter at this level?
Mikkell Khan
Director
Diamond Films Ltd. (Trinidad and Tobago) -
Mpeg quality 4 is ok. What is the final product going to be?
By the way, loved Tobago’s beaches.
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Its a feature length horror film, first in the Caribbean. It’s called 3 Line, for the cutlass with three etched lines in the blade.
And glad you like our beaches, the movie mainly takes place on an isolated village near the Trinidadian coastline. 🙂
I’ll see what I can do with the relinking of the preview files, but I took your advice with the maximum selection (next to use previews) and the final render for Act 1 took about 6 hours.
I figure once I leave it in Media Encoder for a day, everyone should spit out just fine.
Mikkell Khan
Director
Diamond Films Ltd. (Trinidad and Tobago) -
In the future, when this happens, don’t save the project. Just rename the project folders and then re-open the project. It will not be able to find anything and force you to re-link.
But once you save the project with unrendered portions on the timeline, I assume those renders have gone bye-bye. Maybe you could open an earlier auto-save when the previews were still active.
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