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Re-render after moving project
I had a project broken into several ‘sub-projects’, each in their own separate folder and decided to ease automatic backups by placing all sub-project folders into one main project folder on the same drive. All timelines had been rendered prior to the move. As expected, when I started each project, I had to find the media files for Premiere. Even though the renders were still there, and I was able to point Premiere to their new location, the timelines were all un-rendered when the project loaded. Why does this happen, even though all renders were there?
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions
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Hi…
I don’t know this for sure…but as everything in Premiere is based on file path….
To you and I when we look at the timeline:
Render A = image A + image B
To PPro it’s:
Render A = File path/file A + File path/File B = Render A
PPro doesn’t know what the images are, simply that they are.
When the file path changes on the timeline for a relink….it has to way to compare the fact that they are indeed the same images just sitting at a new location.
So for example if you ended up with a timeline where some combinations of the files were in their old locations, and some in new locations…some of the renders would stick because the source paths to the media hadn’t changed…
Simply put, the render flag must be set based on whether the events on the timeline need a render AND the render file must look at the new paths as the possibility of it being new media.
it’s sort of a convoluted explanation….but does it make sense?
Alex
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A good explanation, yes. Make sense? Not at all. It’s a good thing that every other app in the world doesn’t use that kind of ‘reasoning’ that Premiere does. Think what would happen if you moved a 200 page Word document, and because Word didn’t recognize the new file locations directory structure, you had to retype the entire document, or move the doc back to the original location, open it, copy everything, then create a new blank document at the new location and paste everything into it from the document in the old location.
Add this to the list of things that Avid does better than PPro. That brings the list up to…1 item. ;>)
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions
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Yeah…
but create a word file that includes a .OLE spreadsheet in it linked via path and i wonder what you’ll get when it can’t find the data?
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Just tried it. It can’t find it, but when you point it to the file location it sees it and all is well…even if the file is moved to a totally different drive.
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions
VODSouth
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