[John Williams]

So first thing I did was to update to the latest version (build 6 , 15.4.1 – as of 26th August 2021) – that still didn’t fix the problem about the ‘reveal in finder or project’ being greyed out – even though they had all linked perfectly to the new location (it remembered this time for some reason). Then I right clicked on the media in the project window and used ‘attach proxies’ – despite the fact that they were already attached – and that seem to attach them all even though I have about 200 in different bins. And now ‘reveal in project’ etc. is not greyed out and works again.

[John Williams]

I have this issue too since I moved some proxy files and then relink on opening – I have to do it every time. I did try to ‘offline all’ and then I found that it hadn’t offlined any – it knew where they were BUT the ‘Reveal in Project’ and the ‘Reveal in Finder’ options were greyed out. So that also meant it would not ‘attach proxies’ – because it thought they were already attached. I am not sure whether cancelling out of the first relink window is the same as ‘offline all’ but will try again and report.

[John Williams]

I may have missed something since this was first posted in 2016 but I have a similar issue with hundreds of Red raw files. As you may know Red spans its clips every 4G so can make multiple clips inside a folder depending on the length of the shot. It also uses a new folder for every shot – every time the camera record was switched off and on then there is a new folder – result: hundreds of confusingly named clips inside hundreds of confusingly named bins (obviously a system designed by a very clever idiot). I can live with that because importing them into premiere pro via the browser it only looks at automatically reconnect clips and treats them as one normal clip.

But now the problem starts with proxies because when you tick ‘put proxies alongside original files’ when you generate the proxies it writes a set of proxies to each individual folder containing those spanned Red clips. So now you have hundreds of proxies each in hundreds of individual folders alongside their clips. These can only be attached one at a time – trying to do so as a batch usually causes the programme to crash and in any case it can’t do it.

However, I went back to the drive and took out all the proxies and put them in one folder – tedious but not as tedious as relinking hundreds of proxies one at a time in PP. Once in one folder PP can find all the proxies as a batch and relinks (AKA ‘Attaches’) them.

Maybe I should have ticked something else when making the proxies if I had known – written them all to one folder for automatic attachment? Maybe that will help you if you are doing proxies for Red and want to attach batches of hundreds.