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Can you force a project to open with all media offline?
I have an OLD project that I want to reference for an edit. Most of the media is offline, but I actually only need the timecode of a few clips in the edit. My problem, is at one point, the Audio in the project was linked to an OMF file. I can’t seem to open the project without getting the dreaded “Searching for movie data in file xxx.omf.”
Is there anyway to skirt this? I don’t need ANY media online.
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I know I had a similar problem with ref movie files that I moved. But I could get hit skip or cancel for each search (there were a ton of linked files) and eventually the project opened. This is why I never edit ref movies.
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[Michael Sacci] “This is why I never edit ref movies. “
I’ll go one step beyond that… I simply never output as a reference file. They’re not marked or identified in any way automatically (as they should be), and who knows when at some point down the line you may want to use the file for something, only to find that it’s now completely useless.
Hard drives are so inexpensive that saving space by exporting a reference file simply makes no sense. In the old days, when hard drives were expensive, reference files made good sense, but they no longer do.
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I really wasn’t doing a traditional reference movie. I imported an OMF using Automatic Duck and the way it links files from the OMF to the master files is by using reference movies.
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