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clips are offline – editing lost?
Hello-
I’m just a typical consumer. I had a short film project made, exported it to dvd, happy with the end product, everything was fine. All my files were stored on an external drive, and that’s where I stored the clips and edited from. Later, I copied all the files (supporting files, avi clips, whatever else) from one external drive to another; I was hoping to make a few minor edits on a different computer.
But now, on my new computer/drive, when I open the project, all the clips are offline. Why? I can live with having to import each individual clip, but how can I recover all the original editing?
I tried the cursory “Adobe Help” feature but it didn’t help (unfortunately it reads more like a poorly written marketing tool anyway).
Thanks if you can advise.
T K
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1 Reply
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From the sounds of it, you haven’t lost the edit decisions you made at all. Premiere is just asking you where the missing files are.
So if I understand your situation correctly, this should be the procedure:
-hook up your new hard drive to your computer that has all the copied files, or skip this if you’ve already copied the files to an internal hard drive on your computer.
-open up your Premiere project, and you should get a dialogue box asking “where is …. file?”. Simply navigate to where the missing file is, and find the missing file Premiere is asking for, then hit “OK”.
-Premiere will now look in the same location for all of the other missing files. If you have your files all in one folder, Premiere will find all the missing files the first time round, and the project will open with the new links established. If you have your files in multiple folders, you will have to repeat the procedure for each folder, directing Premiere to the missing file each time, until all the missing files have been located.
-when you’re done, don’t forget to SAVE your project, otherwise when you go to open up the project again, you’ll have to re-establish all the links all over again.
-Premiere does have the ability to produce a basic edit decision list, or “EDL”, that will tell you what clips were used where.
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