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  • Smarter Missing Footage Script that will find the missing items on my system?

    Posted by Greg C neumayer on November 5, 2015 at 4:29 pm

    I have multiple projects that I need to “clean up” when work gets slow… Reduce, Collect, etc. and in doing so I sometimes break multiple links of another project that used the first as source. Has anyone built a smarter script (maybe on AEScripts?) that will detect my Missing Footage, but also take it one step further and say,

    “You’re missing X, Y and Z, but I found them in 12 other places on your system: here, here, here, etc.. Re-link to them by checking the box on the one you want.”

    and if it’s REALLLLLY smart:
    “I notice that they all exist in subfolder W. I recommend those ones.”

    Know what I mean? Re-linking missing footage is pretty easy by searching in the Mac Finder window that comes up, but it’s a pretty slow process to do over and over for 15 or 20 items.

    This is a good item for a feature request from Adobe, but seems like something someone could program into a script panel as well.

    Thanks for your input.

    Chris Wright replied 10 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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