Clips going off-line in CS3

[Bigcrunch]

Addition:

It’s also possible to copy and paste (or duplicate) the whole sequence in the project window.

[Bigcrunch]

Addition:

It’s also possible to copy and paste (or duplicate) the whole sequence in the project window.

[Greg Mooney]

Thank you. I’ll try sequences.
Oddly, I’ve used additional sequences to build portions of a story, but never as a “reconstruction” aid.

Also, did you read one of my previous posts? With PPro loaded, a power outage shut everything down. I rebooted and opened PPro to see that everything was intact.

[Dougie Campbell]

I too have the same rerender and offline problem.It seems to be a farly massive bug yet nobody at Adobe has a fix!

[Greg Mooney]

I found an easier workaround to the offline clips problem.

When a PPro project is reopened some clips show “offline” in the project window but are as intended in the time line.

Here’s what I do:
Show entire sequence in timeline (Backslash)
Select ALL clips, Ctrl+A,
Drag entire sequence ahead by a few second or so (this snaps all clips back “online”, but the track keyframes for audio mix may now be out of sync.).
Use Ctrl+Z or move back one step in History to reposition all clips as in original position. The clips will realign to audio track keyframes and all is well with the world.

I find this fast and, so far, accurate.

[Rob Ing]

I have this problem also. It is really frustrating. I have found that shifting all the clips then back again like what Greg has done works. It make me a little nervous when this is happening when the project i am working on is worth huge $$.
I am looking forward to a update for a fix to this.
Inger

[Jason Steelman]

https://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3c0552ee

the adobe developer says it will be fixed in the upcoming update (but no one knows when that will be released). He doesn’t know of a way to get back a render involved with an offline file issue, but you can get the offline file back easily by hiding then reshowing the video on the highest level of the timeline.

[Greg Mooney]

Thank you, Jason.
I couldn’t follow you through that. Can you break your description into simpler pieces, or help me with the terminology?

[Jason Steelman]

sure – the short-term fix is to hide and reshow the highest video track. The show/hide toggle is that eyeball icon next to the lock icon at the head of all your video tracks. The highest video track is video on “top.” If you have 3 tracks the default name is “Video 3.” Toggle the show/hide track next to that track off then toggle it back on. Again, you’ll loose your previews but you get your files back without any fancy tapdance.

It should also be mentioned that some users have had this problem with previous versions of premiere, but the only reported fix is on the upcoming update for CS3.

[Justin Parker]

I too have this problem. I thought it might have just been because some of my projects had started in CS2, but it appears not to matter. the unlinked clips seem to happen more to subclips, but I don’t know if that’s really the case.

I’m using a brand new computer with a fresh install. Practically nothing on it except for the creative suite so adobe can’t blame it on plugins or extras on the computer.