CS6 - Premier Media Offline

[Peter.G]

Cutting a recent project and while doing some clean-up on the media drive the folder holding the media got a name change. How can we find the original file name to get the media back online...Premier 6.0 is working fantastic....-P

[Johnny Friday]

Ooops....well, if you changed the original file names.....only way i know is to re-link individual clips....since your orinal media is now changed names....and your media on your timeline/bins...has (assuming) the orignal media names.....unless you have orinal media some other place?

[Peter.G]

Hi John,

The media has the same names just the folder that holds them was changed. Anyway to identify the path of the original media for the name of the original folder?

Thanks,
Peter

[Peter.G]

Got it...

Thanks for all the replys!

-P

[Johnny Friday]

Can't you just change the name of the folder back to original name?
Another note...i recall Adobe being rather stone age about finding media....unlike FCP...but try to relink a few files....and use find....i had to mess with this a bit as well on 6500clips...and finally we got it working....we also used Clipfinder.....to relink media. but this may not help you....I'd have to go into Adobe now to see how to do this...but i'm almost positive you can tell it where the files are located and it just goes from there....If it were me, i'd change the folder path to exact same...THIS is problematic with Adobe--i'm in same boat when i send editor a project...i have to make an EXACT duplicate of my file structure.....so if he adds a few files etc...he has to do the same....just makes it easier--but do try it and make the file relink to that folder. and then see if finds all.
...i know this is not a big help, but i recall i was able to re-link a bunch of media on a drive like you are doing...

[Peter.G]

Adobes new "Prelude" is meant to address that !!!

[Johnny Friday]

Yes, but Prelude (seems to me) more to tag metadata and give notes on incoming media and assign to multiple backup locations....not sure how it addresses this in a find or relink media--but i've only seen the very basic end of prelude....but you saying you can use it to relink to media with file names X,Y & Z ? and then somehow in an automated way?

[Peter.G]

It will let you know if media goes off line in an info box. It will search and find the missing media and re-link, or add a new location and re-link. There are several options. It's worth a look!

-P