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Adobe pro project on external harddrive
Hello,
Here’s the thing:
I edited with adobe pro on one computer,
then
saved this project on an external harddrive to bring it to another computer.
when i open the project from the external harddrive it shows alot of ‘media offline’ clips and it looks as though they still need to be batch captured..
the only clips that are still visible are the ones that i captured straight onto the external harddrive.
is it only possible to save material (or a project) on the external harddrive if it is captured directly on that drive? Does that mean that I would have to capture all those offline clips again?
thanks heaps for advice…
Sara
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3 Replies
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Sara-
There are a couple of ways to do it. If you capture directly to that drive OR collect the project to that drive using project manager. The one thing you HAVE to do if you don’t want to relink is make sure when you put the drive on another computer you use the SAME drive letter you always have – that way it will find the madie without relinking.
slainte,
marisu -
Your problem probably has to do with the drive letter name of the external hard drive. When you work on one computer it will default to naming the external drive the next available drive letter (D,E,F,etc) When Premiere opens the project it looks at the path where it thinks the project assets are located. If the drive letter has changed, Premiere won’t be able to find the project or some of the assets. There are two ways to fix the problem: The first is to locate the files manually for Premiere when it asks where files are located. To make this easier, check the box so that Premiere only list files with exact name matches when you are looking for the files. You won’t have to find every file in your project, just the first one in a group. When you open same the project, Premiere will remember where the assets are located unless you move the drive again. The second option is to rename the drive as you move it from computer to computer so the path that Premiere looks at will be correct.
Good luck.
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Continuing on this theme, I had a major problem when I changed hard drives and I’m curious if you think that’s what caused a corrupt project.
I bought a new huge drive from an online wholesaler and it was bad, but I was already alittle into the project with a major deadline. So I put in a new external and all of a sudden Premiere got very confused about drive letters, and then had major capturing issues. Capturing even 30 seconds of footage took 4 minutes to dump into the project. I called Adobe and we finally realized it was just that project that was corrupt. So I capture in another new project and import into the bad project and it’s fine.
But I feel sure the drive switch in the beginning made it mad (trying to search for where to put footage) and caused the problem. Does this sound right? I have 2 internal drives and 2 external and haven’t had that problem until the bad drive.
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