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How to relink to different media (same content, different quality)?
I edited my project in compressed prores LT, but now I have to online the original dslr (h264) files .
So I offline all my clips. I show premiere where it can find all the same clips in the original h264 format with exactly the same names. And premiere onlines all the clip. But when I check it, by clicking a clip and request to “show in finder” It turns out that premiere has ignored my request and relinked back to the compressed Prores, after all. That’s very clever of premiere, except that I really do want it to link to a different media.I did try to move few of the prores files but premiere still found them on the same disk. But when I moved them to a completely different harddrive, that actually worked. However, I would prefere it if it was possible to perform this task without having to move all the prores material.
Any ideas?
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A small correction. Premiere does actually link the one, single file that I point to, to the original h264 file, as I want it to. It’s just that all the remaining files are relinked to the prores files that was my edit files. How do I do this in one batch?
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I’m not quite sure how it is right now….but you don’t have to move stuff to another volume….
I think a parallel folder or level above is sufficient…
once PPro can’t find original media, the batch should take…
Alex Udell
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I tried that.
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I’ve run into this as well, the issue is that you are checking the box that says ‘relink others automatically’. You need to UNCHECK that box. Premiere doesn’t understand that you want to link to NEW media, so when it sees the existing media, it will relink to it. If you uncheck that box, it will require you to relink each file individually…..huge pain but it works. This way you can force Premiere to link to the file you tell it to. One issue is that it won’t change the clip name, so it will still look like it’s linked to the wrong media until you do a ‘reveal in finder’ then you’ll see that it has linked to the appropriate files. If you keep your original media in the same folder as your transcoded media, it will be easier to find everything.
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