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CS5 to CS6 Link Media problem after “Collect Files and Copy to New Location”
A CS5 project was saved via Project Manger->Collect Files and Copy to New Location. That folder tree was taken on a portable hard drive to another PC running CS6, where I get numerous errors trying to open the project:
– “Where is the file 00032.m2t?”
I then tell it the location, which then gives the error:
– “Where is the file 00032.xmp?”
When I tell it the file location, it then gives this error:
– “File import failure”, “File format not supported”
I then click cancel, it loads the project, but many clips are red “Media Offline”.
For each of those offline clips I can right-click->Reveal in Project, then in the Project Panel, right-click->Link Media, point to the the media and it loads it.
However many of these clips are all in the same folder — the folder CS5 put them during “Collect Files and Copy to New Location”. Even those in different folders are in the place CS5 put them.
How do I avoid laboriously re-linking each file? I thought the entire purpose of “Collect Files and Copy to New Location” was to avoid this?
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2 Replies
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in a nutshell…
If you get into a project with a number of media items not linked…
it’s possible to expose the media status as a column in project panel.
(might need to go to project panel metadata to show it)then if you do a quick search for “offline” (via the field at the top of the panel) it will show only those items.
If you multi-select them and right click re-link…
then find the first one…
and the others are in the same folder…
it ought to find them….
Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX -
I guess….my point on above…
unlike AE….which will add all missing if one found…
unless all missing are selected first in PPro…
only the selected will be relinked…
Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX
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