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Premiere Pro Project: Can I print list of all component files?
Hi Folks,
I’d appreciate some help on the following issue. Is it possible to print a list of all the audio and video files make up a Project, together with their source on the computers hard drive(s)?
I’m currently trying to re-aasemble a large project which became ‘fragmented’ following a transfer to a new computer system. Despite having backed up all the original files, the ‘references’ in the original Project to the appropriate video and audio files no longer match the new locations of the original files
Thanks in anticipation,
Regards
Stephen -
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Just put the files in a neat and organized file structure, then open the project. Premiere Pro will ask you for ino on the location of each file until it sees them all. Then just save the project.
Steven
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Contributing Writer, PeachPit Press, Visual QuickPro Guide, Premiere Pro 1.5 -
Easy way, if you have only a say 100 files is as follows:
Make a copy of the project file ( prproj). MAKE A COPY. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. rename it to end in .txt
Open in Notepad. It is an xml file but will be a bit hard to read. Do not open in Internet Explorer because it will take forever.
Using edit | find menu option, find
this will give you the complete drive letter and folder for each file. If you wish, copy that line from the .txt file into a spread sheet. Repeat as necessary. Harder way – write a query and macro in MS Access to do this and output the list. I will in fact do so for something to do next week or so, and post at beachdigital.com since I have had this problem many times but have been too lazy in the past to do something about it. I will add usage info, tape name and in-out TC if I can. It will be based on PPro 1.0, but if someone wants to email me a SMALL project file (just the .prproj file, not the clips) that has audio, video and a few titles I will see what the 1.5 file structure looks like. Email link is on the website. I will post here when it is up.
It is well and good to plan to have organized structures, but I have several drives of assets that get used in a project without being copied to a project folder, mainly because some of them are big files. Sometimes the drive letters change, especially with removable drives, and clicking around in the PPro file dialogue gets frustrating – more when several files may even have the same name in several folders but are slightly different. Also happens when you steal clips from several other projects to see what they look like.
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