Hi Paul,
How are you handling the reimporting?
My understanding is that to avoid media duplication at the very least….
re-import of the sequence should happen through the media browser.
if you are doing this and still see media duplication….read on…
What kind of media container are your proxies? .mov might be a good choice because .mov’s allow metadata to be added to the file….
this is important in the initial creation stage of the proxy media….
here’s why…
in prefs BEFORE you make the proxies go to the media tab and enable “Write XMP ID to files on import”
in this was PPro SHOULD add a unique ID to the proxy media….
if PPro see that unique ID on subsequent reimports…. IT SHOULD allow it to connect to your existing assets without creating dupe assets…
see if this works for you….and let us know!
hth,
Alex Udell
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