Bulk Replace Footage

[Alex Udell]

He Keith,

1) Are you multi selecting files fore relink?

2) are you linking to original media or perhaps proxies or transcodes of different names? This probably won’t let you relink multiple (you probably know this)

3) is this single source media (QT/AVI) or atomized media in a folder structures (like P2)?

PPro Should find material in the same directory off a multiselect, it won’t find stuff across multiple directories, like multiple P2 Contents Folder sets, for example.

Alex

[Toby Gale]

it depends if your footage is entirelly different (naming and file format) in that case this is difficult.

if your footage is simply offline and has been moved from its origional directory then you can reload the footage either when PP complains footage is missing when your load your project file (it will then guide you to locate the footage, and will try and load all other missing footage from the directory you chose) or find the footage in your timeline right and click “reveal iN PROJECT” OR FIND THE FOOTAGE IN YOUR PROJECT PANE THEN RIGHT CLICK AND “replace footage”

if the naming system and file format is different and you are wanting to replace clips within your project the only suggestion i can give is that a PP file is an xml format file that you can scan through and replace the meta tags for the footage you want withing a texteditor. there maybe some tool online or plugin for this. i have done this for bulk resizing clips before.

ican probly help more if i know the exact requirements. unfortunatly PP is bad for automated processes, im looking forward to a editing suite with expression and python support.

sorr

Best Louis

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[Keith Moreau]

Thanks Louis. I have a strange workflow where I wind up with a lot of files that are .MOV – Quicktime wrapped files. My process is to replace that footage with the .MTS original files that created those wrapped .MOV files, file by file. Most of the time those .MTS files are in the same directory together, right now I have to click on the .MOV file, choose ‘Replace footage’ then click on the .MTS files in the file browser, and repeat until done, tedious but not too bad. I’m always looking to reduce tedious repetitive things which supposedly computers are good for.

I did think about messing with the XML and could probably create a script that looks for .MOV files in a source directory and matches them with MTS files in another directory but there is also a lot of meta data in the XML that would also need to be changed and I fear this could be a big programming effort that isn’t worth it.

Thanks for you advice here.

[Michael Scarn]

This is very late, I know, but with CS6 out I wanted to come back and answer this because I had similar trouble. What you will want to do is select all the files you want to relink, right-click, then select “Link Media…”

This should do the trick, provided your folder structures are the same both within Premiere and in the original source folder.