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MEDIA MANAGING DISMAL – Am I right or wrong?
I have never been able to relink a project without selecting one clip at a time when working with native Red (R3d) files.
Recently I received a PP CS6 project that I needed to online and conform for colour correction. After opening the project file, I had to reconnect the media to a backup drive. The folder structure was the same, but the drive name was different. So I started to reconnect my media.
Premiere Pro forced me to select one clip at a time. There was no other option available to relink all the clips at once, which are in the same volume.
For me, this is a major reason to stay away from Premiere Pro, especially in a multi-editor or multi-facility scenario.
Will this be fixed???????? Come on Adobe, this should have been addressed by now. Learn from AVID please.
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Want it fixed? Tell them to do it 😀
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
Tom Daigon
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Done and done!
Thanks for the link Tom.
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Glad to help, Craig.
Tom Daigon
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I agree that media management is something that needs to be fixed. However, you can select multiple items in the bin, right click to re-link, and I believe Premiere Pro will go through and find them all after asking for the first clip so long as the clips are in the same folders.
—Eric
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This may be an issue with Red alone. Premiere will usually re-link all files based on the first selected, even if they are on a different drive.
Vince Becquiot
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Or select all clips in bin, right click on first clip and Relink Media.
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Not knowing much about RED it’s harder to chime in on this one…
I had trouble in previous versions of PPro when dealing with structured media where the video elements lived in “Sub folders”
PPro wouldn’t snoop in parallel or deeper folders….perhaps this was to avoid collisions (found commonly with .MTS files I understand)…
but if you could identify media…other selected elements in the same path wold be found….
Alex
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I do think that’s a disaster in PPRo. I had a huge project with tons of MTS files. All of those files have the same name! It took forever. There needs to be a media manager that will put the files in a managed folder that has the option of giving them unique names.
And then it needs to use relative folders instead of absolute. So if the drive name is different it won’t matter. FCP uses relative folders for MM so you can copy a media managed folder to another drive and it still re-links. It just looks down from where it is instead looking at the drive name. So if one person has an edit on one system, and then copies the media to a portable drive, you then copy it to where you want it and it should re-link. I hope Adobe realizes that this is a big deal. I don’t think it would take much engineering time to improve it drastically.
Robert Brown
Editor/VFX/Colorist – FCP, Smoke, Quantel Pablo, After Effects, 3DS MAX, Premiere Prohttps://vimeo.com/user3987510/videos
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[Robert Brown] “I do think that’s a disaster in PPRo. I had a huge project with tons of MTS files. All of those files have the same name! It took forever. There needs to be a media manager that will put the files in a managed folder that has the option of giving them unique names. “
Completely agree!!!! It is a very big issue.
Especially when using folder structures based on REELS. PPro does not scan more than one folder at a time which means much time is spent reconnecting individual clips.Can anyone from Adobe comment on this?
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If you want to communicate with Adobe do it here..
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
This forum is mainly populated with users with infrequent visits from helpful Adobe personnel.
Tom Daigon
PrP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRIg6h-LIm0 (Best viewed at 1080P and full screen)
HP Z820 Dual 2687
64GB ram
Dulce DQg2 16TB raid
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