Relinking lost media

The hard drive on my iMac just melted and I've had to have a completely new hard drive installed. I was in the middle of a project on Premier Pro when it happened.
I had saved the Premiere project onto an external hard drive and I also have all the original footage on that drive too.
I've reinstalled Premiere onto my iMac and tried to relink the project but of course its telling me there is missing media. I've put the folder withe the original footage back on but even when I direct it to this folder during locate, it can't find it. Is there anything I can do or am I going to have to start the whole project again from scratch? Doom!!

I've discovered that the missing files are audio files which i worked on in Audition. At the time I saved them in Audition, there fore putting the updated audio in the project, but I didn't save the audio files in a separate folder. I've reloaded Audition onto the new hard drive but it doesn't link. Does this mean I'll need to resync all the sound from the original files? Still doom!!

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Lost media for Final cut Pro X

I finished a project on final Cut Pro X and started on a new one downloading new footage. I ran out of Disk space so I started to delete events from my iphoto library. (All is backed up) I also deleted events and files that where being used in my previous project. When I go to open the project they have obviously dissapeared and I am confronted with 2 different looking boxes. One, with the usual 'Missing File' (Mainly photo's I think) with the red background icon, but also a lot of video which is replaced with a blue box with the linear look of a video and audio segment. As I say I have all the footage backed up and have re uploaded back into iphoto. I dont know how to make the program reconnect with the files I have reinstalled.

Hi MC Hilton,
I found the following information that may be helpful in relinking lost media to a Final Cut Pro X project:
Final Cut Pro X Help: Relink clips to media files
http://help.apple.com/finalcutpro/mac/10.0.3/#ver26f5c8c9
Also, If you need to figure out where the media and project files are located:
http://help.apple.com/finalcutpro/mac/10.0.3/#verb6acba30
Thanks,
Matt M.

Itunes: i want to find a single fix for missing music on itunes rather than using "iTunes: Finding lost media and downloads" on a case by case basis.

recently when i was creating a playlist, i realized that i was missing music from my extensive itunes (12.0.1.26) library. i found the solution "itunes: finding lost media and downloads" and used the general approach to find the music in finder and copy it to itunes. i don't want to do this every time i find i am missing music. is there an automated fix? i want apple to develop a way to automate the fix. can it be that this isn't a problem for many people?
i ask this now because i just looked for music i thought i had but can't find. maybe i am wrong about having the artist, but it has happened on another artist too. i can't trust itunes to tell me whether i have a song or not. i don't want to keep going back to finder, especially when the instructions in "itunes: finding lost media and downloads" doesn't actually reflect my system (os x 10.7.5).
i don't want to try to do a restore. i have never done a restore on my mac (previously a pc user). and, i don't know how far back to take the restore to find the old music. and then music i have added since i lost the old music wouldn't be there.
i understand that there are so many system variables that apple would need to take into consideration with a general fix. but: i am assuming that apple's changes have caused my problem and feel that apple should do something to fix it. perhaps my assumption is incorrect.
thank you for your help.

limnos, i always have backups. the problem is that i don't know how far back in time to take a restore because i don't know how long this has been going on. and, if i take the restore back very far, i will lose what has been added since the music started to disappear.
i don't even know what you mean when you say "you will check there aren't any broken links (use a script from the Dougscripts web site) before you do a backup."
i agree with you to some extent about not automatically installing upgrades. i'm still running lion and was pushed to it from snow leopard. the problem is that i have a hard time envisioning the changes described in an update to judge whether something is valuable or not.
i have questions about your last paragraph. i'm going to repeat it here and then insert my questions as i go. please forgive my all caps for the moment:
"Now for your missing music, is it that there are broken links, or are things missing completely from the library?" I DON'T KNOW ENOUGH TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION. I BELIEVE THAT THE PROBLEM HAS TO DO WITH BROKEN LINKS. WHEN I COULDN'T FIND THE MUSIC THAT I THOUGHT I HAD LOADED INTO ITUNES YEARS AGO, I FOUND THE CD'S AND IMPORTED THEM TO ITUNES. I GOT A MESSAGE ABOUT SOME OF THE TRACKS BEING DUPLICATES THAT ASKED WHETHER I WANTED TO IGNORE OR IMPORT. I CHOSE IMPORT BECAUSE ITUNES DIDN'T TELL ME WHAT WAS DUPLICATED. IT WAS ONLY AFTER RE-IMPORTING SEVERAL CD'S THAT I REALIZED THAT THERE WERE NOW DUPLICATES OF THE CD'S: THE FILES I HAD JUST LOADED AND THOSE THAT I HAD LOADED SOME TIME AGO. THE ORIGINALS MAGICALLY APPEARED AFTER I RE-IMPORTED THE CD'S. I'M GUESSING THAT THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF A BROKEN LINK I DON'T KNOW HOW TO RECOGNIZE A BROKEN LINK OR HOW TO PREVENT ONE. AFTER I REALIZED THE PROBLEM, I FOUND THE "FINDING LOST MEDIA AND DOWNLOADS" QUIDE. I LOCATED THE MISSING MUSIC IN FINDER AND DRAGGED IT TO ITUNES. DOES THIS COUNT AS A BROKEN LINK?
"If the latter and you use iTunes default settings for managing media, you can drag your media folder to Automatically Add To iTunes. It should add anything in the folder but not in the library list but ignore things that are." CAN YOU REPHRASE THIS LAST PARAGRAPH? I DON'T KNOW WHAT "DEFAULT SETTINGS FOR MANAGING MEDIA" MEANS.
FOR "DRAG MEDIA FOLDER TO AUTOMATICALLY ADD TO ITUNES," I THINK YOU MEAN I CAN DRAG /MUSIC/ITUNES/ITUNES MEDIA/MUSIC IN FINDER TO THE ITUNES ICON IN THE DOCK. AND, THAT THAT ACTION WILL REPLACE ANYTHING MISSING IN ITUNES BUT NOT DUPLICATE THE FILES THAT ARE IN ITUNES. IS THAT RIGHT?
thank you for your time and help, limnos.

Lost media after battery pull

So, on Sunday my phone wouldn't connect to the network so I tried a battery pull. When the phone came back on, it connected just fine, but all of my saved media (pictures, music, videos) was gone. The media was all saved on the device and we use a BES at my office. Any chance of recovering the lost media? Phone seems to be working just fine--just don't have any pictures or videos left. Thanks for any advice.

Hi
Do another battery pull whilst powered on and leave the batterry out for a minute or 2.
Make sure that the folder/s with the media aren't hidden. Go through each folder - and Media and downloads and apps are the most obvious places and ensure "Show All" is ticked in the menu.
I presume you do regular back-ups as part of your firm's IT policy. You should be able to restore from a recent back-up with no fuss.
Otherwise I would refer to your admin for assistance; many admin folk prefer to deal with issues.
Blackberry Best Advice - Back-up weekly
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PP CS4 won't relink offline media

Can anyone help me trouble shoot my Premiere Pro CS4? It would refuse to let me save anything, freeze and make me force quit it over and over, finally it told me to reinstall. So i did but now none of my previous timelines work, the media is all either offline or just not playing when i try to playback. When i try to relink the offline media it tells me the file dimensions are too big. What can i do? This is a big project which needs to be completed urgently and i don't want to have to start over losing weeks of work.
I'm using a macbook pro and an education version of the adobe masters collection.

Hi all, thanks for your help but neither of those solutions are working. I have found an autosave in which most of the media is still linked but not all of them and I am still being told that the file dimensions are too large to link, despite being from tapes i captured using premiere pro. While all clips are in the same place as where i edited them, the ones that appear to still be linked are blank and will not play.
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:00:12 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: PP CS4 won't relink offline media
    Re: PP CS4 won't relink offline media
    created by Bill Hunt in Premiere Pro CS4 & Earlier - View the full discussion
Jeff covers two of the biggest reasons that Media is Offline, and why one might not be able to relink to the media. This ARTICLE goes into detail on a few other reasons. The biggest question, and also at least part of the solution, is "why is the media offline?" One of the main causes is that something changed in the Path to the media, which is absolute. Then, when PrPro cannot find that media, it asks "Where is file ____ ?" and the user chooses anything but the Finder to locate that media, then Saves the Project. All media with changed Paths will then show as Offline. However, manually relinking will correct that. In your case, you are failing in that relink operation, so Jeff's suggestions take on even greater importance. Still, by defining WHY the media is showing offline, might be useful in determining how to relink. Good luck, Hunt
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Lost media for final cut. Where to store?

ok so i do alot of pulling of pictures from the web and dropping to my desktop because its the quickest way to get pictures for my projects into final cut. but when i want to clean up my desktop because there is a million pictures there the media on my final cut gets lost because it can not find where i placed the pictures. so i've tryed importing them into iphoto and everywhere else but i wont work i still get missing content error. where should i bring these photos so i can clean my desktop up

Do what innocentius said.
Then use the Relink Files command in FCP X if they appear to be missing. In fact, the relinking may not even be necessary, unless you move them to another drive.
FCP X is very clever in relinking files. Often you need only tell it in which volume the files are stored. So if you move them to a folder on an external drive, you then should do the relink command, select the drive and boom!

Adobe Acrobat Standard - 22002418 - Lost Media

Need to install Adobe Acrobat Standard 9.0today and client has lost the media. Is there a download to just the media? If not, what is the method to obtain new media?
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If the media was registered or at least have the key, then you may be able to download it. If not, then your client probably needs to look for the $$ to buy a new copy. As Bernd says, customer support is your route.
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Relinking many media files at once when there is duplicate media?

Has anyone had an issue where they have two sets of the same files (say a folder structure on a network and a folder structure locally on faster drives) and when trying to relink to one or the other set, Premiere defaults to the previous location?
I work with people over a slow network, where they give me files and I update them, etc. I pull media locally to my machine, mimicking the file structure, in order to have realistic playback performance. This requires me to take the media files offline and relink them to my local drive. If I select a group of files (more than two) and choose to link media to my local machine, it will ask me to point to the first file in the list. When I do that, Premiere is SUPPOSED to search that local file structure and find media in a similar location...at least, that's what Final Cut does. However, what it actually does is relink that first clip locally that it asked me for and then relink everything else I had selected back to the original location on the network.
The only solution I found was to dismount the network drive. I shouldn't have to do this.
Is this something others have encountered?

when i had and older pc, i have to always work whit proxies. And I found the same problem you say.
when relinking ppro always try to reconnect to the same location where it was. what I did was,
2 folders.
proxies
orginals
when I do the relink, first I rename the folder proxies. It is not the most elegant way.
But it works !!!

Relinking/Changing Media

Quick question on re-linking or changing media in Color.
I've got an FCP sequence that I've "Sent to Color". It has opened fine, and I can color the sequence as normal.
Now, I've taken one of the shots into After Effects and fixed some issues, and saved it back into the same media folder but with a different name (i.e., FileName_ver2.mov).
I tried "relinking" the one clip by right clicking it in the timeline and select "Relink Media". It pulls up the file dialogue box. But, when I select the Version 2 clip, I get the spinning rainbow ball of death. And, Color hangs indefinitely.
So, I tried the super snaeky way, by changing the name of the new clip to the name of the original clip. Still didn't work. Now, when it opens, it just hangs on the "Loading Project" alert.
Not sure what's going on. Am I breaking a Color rule by trying to change the media? If so, then what's the workflow for inserting new clips into the timeline without having to start from scratching FCP?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Russ

JPO,
You're right. Color does not create its own XML, and that's what's hurting me right now.
I've rendered all my clips in the timeline as ProRes422, but when I "Send To FCP", the timline is still based on DVCProHD (codec and pixel ratio). DVCProHD is squished at 960x720. And, ProRes is 1280x720, non-squished. The problem I'm experiencing now is that when I create a new ProRes (1280x720) sequence in FCP, and bring my new color sequences into it, all of the clips are squished back to 960x720, and don't fit my 16x9 frame.
I really don't want to go back to a DVCProHD codec, because then I lose all my color information (from 32 bit floating point coloring). I wish there was a way to tell Color to create a ProRes timeline instead of the DVCProHD timeline.
The only solution I found is that I can create a new sequence in ProRes codec, but use the DVCPro frame size and pixel aspect ratio. But even then, it requires me to render. So, I have a feeling I'm losing some pixel information from the conversion.
I guess the only other option is manually place each rendered clip back into the timline, but that really ***** because this project is a feature film with over 800 clips.
Any ideas?
Russ

No Audio after Relinking mxf Media Files - Premiere Pro CS3

Product: Premiere Pro CS3 - Version 3.2.0
Hardware: Pentium 4; 3 GHz; 1GB RAM
Hard Drives: Using 2 external 1TB Hard Drives for my film's storage and access
Clips: High Def mxf files
User Experience Level: Novice
Whenever I unplug one or both of my external hard drives - or - forget to turn them on before entering Premiere, I am required to relink my clips. After relinking, and upon entering my Project, I click "Play" in the Timeline Window to begin editing for the day - to realize: "the Audio Is Silent."
To experiment on how I can get the audio to work:
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HT201250 Time machine lost media after shutdown

I recently had to restore a external drive. In doing so,
1. I purchased a larger drive (3TB). to be used as new TM backup.
process...
2. restored media from bad drive (1TB) to (3TB). successful! (removed bad drive from system)
3. erased what was an older TM drive (1.5TB)
4. copied restored media from new (3TB) drive to older TM drive (1.5TB)
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after shutdown and restart, all previous backups are gone
Gone from where -- the 3 TB, the 1.5 TB, or both? How do you know they're gone?

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any thoughts on how i can reattach the media???

To tacred, I went to a One to One session and was informed all my movies were still on my computer under the old version if iMovie. That old version is still functional. Check there first, the star icon is a different color. Once you have moved the video over to the new iMovie, there's no going back. The Creative that I spoke to is really an expert and says the new iMovie is very good and a great improvement. If you have questions, you can always make a genius bar appointment, but descibe your purpose when making the reservation, so the store you go to will assign a creative to assist you for the 10-15 minute session. Have your questions ready!

Can I restore lost media files (pictures)?

I have just gone onto the media section on my blackberry curve and for some reason all of the pictures taken before November have just been wiped off. Can anyone tell me the reason for this and if I can get them back, they are really important to me....please help?

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Please help an absolute computer duffer learn what to do!

If you read through the original thread that I linked to I mention that there might be a problem with the way the script generates the File Open dialog box. I don't have a Vista/Windows 7 system but hopefully I've now updated the script in a way which is supposed to work on Vista/Win 7 (but which I can't test on XP) and trapped the error so that if a file browse dialog isn't generated you get a file path to edit.
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As a rule don't move any files by hand. iTunes only gets confused. Once iTunes "knows" where all your files are you can consolidate to your chosen media folder, which copies anything currently outside of the iTunes media folder inside it. You can delete the original copies that are outside of the iTunes Media folder, e.g. on a differnt drive, once you've confirmed that all is well.
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