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Link media Premiere CS3.2 XDCAM – Media Offline, one file at a time
Hi everyone,
I got this huge problem with a XDcam project in Adobe Premiere CS3.2.
I’m taking care of the editing of a film that is already in a rough cut format. The director sent a external disk drive to work with. Opening premiere, the programs puts all the file offline (missing), what I got to know is that every goddamn clip is in differenent folders! Does someone know how to relink all the files in a XDcam project without relinking them one by one, this IS NOT a solution, this short film has nearly 900 videos clips and relinking them would make me scream and that would mean that once i sent the project back, the director would have to relink everything again.Please, if someone has a solution, this is REALLY URGENT!
Eric
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3 Replies
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okay.. this is a wild guess…
let’s say that when the videos were captured on the external hd using the director’s system, that hd was related as drive x:\
and when u plugged the hd to ur system, it was related as drive y:\
if you change the drive letter in your system to what it was named at the director’s system, probably the project will be able to link the files…
however, if you did any saves to the project on your system, it probably lost the original links and you have to do it all over again… but maybe u can find an original back up copy of the project before you did the saves…
good luckthe child is grown
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Yeah, it has been tricky but I managed to find a solution.
Open the project with ”notepad”, use the option find&replace to change the directory of the files.
Ex.: C:/ to I:/
Also, another problem, this may sound stupid but I happened to understand it and know it only when i faced the problem. Don’t edit HD via USB 2.0, it has a flow of 20mb/s and when you have a very big project, it’s two much to handle. USB also use some CPU power and it’s no good. Firewire400 or 800 works fine and eSATA is best.
USB will work (maybe) but it’ll be slow, so i recommend those Lacie HDD without a firewire or eSATA input to be used only as backup drives, and even that, it’ll still be really slow when transfering large files.
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I described an easy solution to this problem
in my notes here
Let me know if you have any more questions about it.Enjoy
Gleb Galkin
http://www.laVcinema.com
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