Type does not match message when re-linking

Question

I just got CS3 this morning and have already made use of it to "translate" a project being done in Premiere 6 in order to do some corrective work in After Effects 7.
I've run into an error message that I'm not sure how to resolve. I've imported a Prem6 project into CS3 and some media is listed as offline. Odd, since I know they're there and working fine in Prem 6.
When I try to re-link the media, navigate to select the AVI file, then click Select, I get a message box stating:
"The selected file cannot be linked because its type (video) does not match the original file's type (audio and video)."
The file is video only though and with a fresh empty project started, it imports into CS3 just fine.
Anyway to get around this?
Thanks,
Mark

Answer 1

Pardon me for jumping onto an old thread, but I have the same problem (except that in my case the error message is very truthful - after using only the video portion of some clips in my project, I edited the original files to be video-only AVI clips, because the audio will never be used). The reason I jumped in here is that I want to respond to this in Jeff's first reply:
> Try importing the video-only clip separately, then use the new CS3 Replace Asset command to replace the offline clip.
I imported the video-only clips, but I can't find any Replace Asset command in PPro CS3. There is also no mention of it in the help files, and Google hits I found seem to all be talking about Encore, not PPro, with one exception that was also
a post by Jeff (I think it's the same Jeff, anyway - if I'm wrong, forgive me). It sounds like a handy command, if I can find it.
Naturally I can Alt-Drag the imported clip onto the offline placeholder in the timeline, but then it will use the first part of the clip, not start where the old one did. I could drag it to the source monitor first and set the In Point, but I would need to know where the In Point needs to be - since the clip is offline I can't tell that easily... or can I? Is there a way to determine from the offline clip placeholder what point in the original asset the placeholder's In Point was? That would be sufficient as a solution for me.
In case you are wondering, my new and old clips are exactly the same length and the same video content - the only difference is lack of audio (which I wasn't using anyway).