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Merged Clips Appear Off Line Yet Are Successfully Linked In
Hi there. I just migrated a feature documentary from an edit suite in a local production company to my home. We’re using Adobe Production Premium CS 5.5, I tried to migrate the project using the Project Manager function of premiere. But no matter what combination of options I tried it failed everytime. Huge pain!
Anyway, the whole thing is nearly up and running again – but there is a problem with some of the merged clips. We were shooting on DSLRs, with a Zoom H4N dual audio system. Dual Eyes was then used to synch the clips. Which were then merged with the relevant video files in the various relevant bins.
Here lies the problem, obviously I had to go and relink all the media files. Grand job. Thought I was all done but then I noticed, that when I was linking “merged clips” they weren’t coming up properly in the sequences. Like, they were there in the bins. They would appear if double clicked in the source monitor. You could even do an old “in and out” and drag your selection into the sequence, and all the extra Dual Eyes audio synchs would be there and ready for use. But, the ones that were already in the time line were not picking up anything, they were just off line.
I find this stuff hard to explain so attached is a screen grab and some explanation below.
A – Shows the panels with the media successfully linked.
B – Shows it double clicked and opened in the source monitor.
C – Shows where it should be in the time line. But its not linking.
I’d really appreciate someone helping me out with this. The whole thing means going back and doing the rough chopping of a nearly 15 interviews again, taking out the bets bits and prepping for use. We had all that work done months ago before moving edit suites due to resource share constraints. Redoing it has us repeating a lot of work we already did.
It must be something simple or some oversight on my part?
Anyone???
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6 Replies
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1. Do not highlight anything in your bin
2. In the timeline right-click the offending clip and use “Find in Project”Does this highlight anything in the bin? If not then this is a very deep issue with the Premiere Pro file in that it isn’t linking the timeline info to the bin info. No way to repair it except a 3 point match frame edit for the offending areas.
If you’d like to email me your project file (visit my website for contact info) I may be willing to run it through an in-house program I have to “flatten” merged clips back to original source files. This may or may not work in your case.
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As an alternate, have you tried manually offlining a few of these merged clips in the bin (right-click menu option to make offline) and then relinking? Does that refresh the timeline or no? If not, again you may have that deep rooted issue I mentioned.
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Thanls for getting back. Thats the mad thing, if I highlighted nothing in the bin, right click and go “find in bin” it will bring up the offending clips.
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Thats the thing. When right clicked it does allow me to find the clip in project. Bizarre isnt it!?
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Hi, yeah when I right click “find in project it does indeed highlight the merged clip in the bin.
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I just noticed as well, that when relinking some of the .wavs related to the merged clips I get a premiere error and it crashes out.
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