Mate, I allways end up watching your videos for a comprehensive guideline. This is totally what I needed to re-link the files on a new SSD I'm using now. But I wanted to thank you for this tutorial and many others that have been helping me resolve this "tiny" problems! Greetings from Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.

This was great! You ended the stress I was having over all this on my Documentary. Thanks!

LIFE SAVER! Almost had a heart attack when I saw I had hundreds of files I thought I needed to link one by one lol. Thank you!!

I like that you explained every radio check box button in the relinking dialog box. That was very helpful

I'm so new to premiere pro and this problem came up and I did not know what it even meant, let alone how to fix it. Thank you. Your video was concise and easy for me to follow. I'm very grateful for it.

I've been looking for this for so long, thanks man

thank you! your video's are always really helpfull and short.

Thank you so much man. That "preserve interpret footage settings" box saved my life!

Thank you, Colin, very helpful!

Brilliant tutorial, thank you.

ok so im in a weird situation, i never moved any of the files, but when premiere updated it offlined a ton of my footage of a 37 minute long video, and when i try and relink it premiere tells me that the importer reported a generic error which doesnt help at all. google tells me to make a copy of the file to fix the issue but i dont want to do that for ~200 different clips. it also says it has to do with the file type but everything is a .mov so i have no idea whats going on

Hi man! I'm trying to import an EDL project into Premiere Pro CC 2018, and the EDL doesn't find the source medias. When I try relinking it, the start time of the medias are modified, even with 'preserve interpret footage settings' on... Do you have an idea of what I should do?

Thank you for all your great videos, you have taught me so much! Is it possible to move the media to a new disc, and then ask Premiere Pro to relink?

This is such a helpful video thank you so much!!

Thankyou so much for sharing good information

Hello, Colin. How do I tell premiere to replace the clip name in the timeline with the new "re-linked" footage. I was using proxies before but now replacing these with the original RED footage. I'd like to to see the RED extension on the clip name in the timeline. Thanks for your time and all of your informative/useful videos.

Can you explain how to relink offline graphic materials by premiere composer (mr horse) - it seems that it doesn't work the same

Saved me a lot of time. Thank you

Hi, I would like to thank you for your valuable videos, and I have a question, please. In my Project Panel, I imported a folder includes my footages. Let us say that I have 10 footages in it. From my Windows, I added 3 new footages, Is there a way to refresh my Project Panel to import only the 3 additional footages in the folder to have the 13 footages?

Very very informative. Thanks. I renamed my mp4 video extension to MOV when I saw a tutorial on KZfaq telling it would make video run faster in Premiere, it did, I changed only one mp4 to MOV and located Premiere, but Premiere seemed to have changed the extension of all the mp4 videos captured by my Nikon D5500 (No other mp4 on my laptop was disturbed). How can I regain the old mp4 exntion. I will appreciate your help. Thanks

I changed my external hard drive name without thinking and now all my projects need re linking. Is there a way to find out what was the name I had before I changed it? I regret it😔

I liked that you explained every radio check button in the relinking dialogue box.

I don't know how to thanks you ,. Very very helpful video .❤

Super helpful!!!

thank you very much - was very helpful!

Thank you Very Very much! :) I solved the problem exactly~!

I have diagonol lines over my media i've tried unlinking, and replacing but it still just has a diagonol line over it and not showing nor video or audio

Hello, How can Relink PSD layers from photoshop file, Actually I lost link's for all layers I was imported from PSD file one by one, And when I tried to Relink them only accepting Relink with merged all layers.

Hi Colin, thanks for your videos. My files are showing up as present. However, when I render, some of them are showing up as missing/red. But they aren't! They are there. This is the latest in a perpetually stalled and crashing project. Is it a bug? How do I get rid of it? Please help!

I'm trying to relink 40TB of media to a RAID (it was originally linked to several smaller drives), but it takes forever to locate the files since it needs to read through a huge amount of files. Just matching file name and file extension (I could match Tape Name instead but that is much slower). Do you know what could make it faster? Would it help to have more RAM and/or a better processor on my computer?

Hi there. I have a problem with relinking the media. So I transferred my files from MAC to PC. When I relinked the media, I got danger stripes on some clips. And most of the clips are not matched/aligned with how I slipped. I followed your linking instructions, checked what needs to be checked and still got errors. All clips are there in the sequence, but they're not adjusted accordingly.

That was great! Thank you

Hi Colin! I have the following situation - a concert with 6 cameras in 4K 50 fps resolution has been filmed and my computer does not drag this material. There is one more problem with this - I don't have a media encoder and I can't compile proxy files. All material is in .mov format. The question - if I re-export all this footage in 1080 format to .mp4 - will it be possible after the material has been assembled and will have to be exported to replace the small file with the large one? This problem is caused by working on a 2009 Mac Pro that has undergone a maximum upgrade, but still can't handle these files.

Thanks a Lot sir! 😁✨ Cheers....

When I relink my footage to my proxies, the clip in the timeline starts back at the beginning of them. All my shots just return to the first frame with the slate. Why is this?

beginners. Thank you so much! x

What if you want to change the name of your project or move your media files to different locations but keeping consistent the whole project? Is there a way we can do it updating the media relinking automatically?

Thank you so much my man!

How did you unlink the files initialy? i would like to know as i want to replace the links to the files from the server to my local storage

Hi, When I try to link media that's in the exact same location it comes up with media mismatch, before it would relink normally, does the have anything to do with rendering. How do I correct this.

Very Helpful, Thank you

Thanks a LOT sir! AWESOME

Hey! i've my film rushes stored on an hdd (is there a safer way to store them? i constantly fear of losing it since a hdd I not that reliable?) and the wire was plugged out while editing and i lost the link of all my videos/ when i re-plugged the hdd, i tried linking the media back, but all the files in the same folder were not getting linked at one go. Now, i have 2.5 hour long rushes patches together unlinked. i'm losing hours on linking them individually! any solution for the same?

THANK YOU SIR!

Hi, thanx for this video! I have a problem with RED footage - I have final edit with proxy files, I relink them and they get bigger BUT it is still written mp4 in file properties on a timeline. How can I be sure that it is RD3 and not a proxy file? I kinda got lost in this. Any suggestions?

OMG YIU SHAVED MY LIFE TYSM!

So..I ran out of SD card space while making a video. Now half the video is on one card and the other half is on a new one. How do I continue to edit the video with the new card with out losing all the media from the old card?

Thank u sir,this just helped me💪

Just wanted to express how helpful your videos are!! you are extrely good at explaining tNice tutorialngs in-depth but still at a basic level for

Can you please help me on this issue... I can't find anything on this subject anywhere ... all my project ( prproj. ) files are white I can't open them....a window tell me to re-associate my files how do I solve this problem. Thanks for your help..!

Thank you so much! Like!

thanks Jesus, the tip for the drive was just what I needed, find the first one changing the drive and everything will be OK , thanks

thanks man . was helpfull !

Thanks helped sooo much

Here we start with files that could not be found. I got audio files I wanna move to a new folder. Would love to be able to just mark my files and select my new destination for selected files and execute a move.

I went from FCPX to premiere and some files of my zoom had the same name but were in different folders. now it has relinkes some audio with the wrong data. how can fix this the easiest way? do i replace footage and look for the right files and replace them or is there an easier way? because my project is pretty big and i hope i can avoid going through this with every single file that was relinked wrong :D btw thank you for your great videos! very awesome!

Hello Sir, could you plz help me, actually I have created proxies of 4k files, but when I am attching it, this msg is coming.... Proxy Media and full resolution media must have matching audio channels. what does it mean? how can I attach my proxies? Regards

here's a weird problem....i have premiere pro 2020 and if i try to import any mp4 file that has already been used in a project in my previous version of PP (CS5) it will not let me import the file (error received is "The file has an unsupported compression type). It will allow other mp4 files, even ones filmed with the same camera, but as soon as they have been used at least once in a CS5 project, I can no longer import them into 2020 PP. Tried renaming the files, changing their location - all to no avail. I did a test where i imported a freshly recorded mp4 file into PP2020 and it imported properly. Closed out of 2020 without saving, then i tried importing the same file into CS5 PP and that also worked. I Saved the CS5 project, closed it, then once again tried importing the file into 2020 PP - and this time it does not work!! So there is definitely something going on that once a file has been used in CS5, it can never be used in 2020PP. I doesn't make any sense to me, and was wondering if anyone has a solution to this? (Note i have tried uninstalling/reinstalling just one and also both versions, and makes no difference).

I am facing A problem that I can Relink the offline media one by one only so why I can't relink all of them at the same time? I have Adobe premiere cc 2019.

What I found is that I had to first show premiere where to look for the files, then it located them.

What if the media is indefinitely pending afterwards? Can you point me towards another video tutorial for media pending?

when i link media back up its saying that the importer reported a generic message when ive found the right files. what do i do please help.

Hey, my "relink others automatically" doesn't work. It's pretty annoying having to relink 100 clips one by one. Do you know what may be the problem and how can I solve it?? I've tried lots of things but can't seem to find a solution. I've been having this problem for months and I'm desperate. Any help is greatly appreciated

I am using cs6 and when i go to open a project that has offline media, the box opens opens which normally prompts to locate a specific file but now for some reason, it no longer show me which file it wants me to locate. The box which allows me to search for files still pops up but without the top section that normally says "where is ... file" . its driving me nuts.... please help.. thanks.

Hi Collin. Hope all is well. Can I import media unlinked into PP? instead of unlinking once in timeline? thx

Does "Adobe Premiere Pro" allows to make a file in which the media is attached to the file itself (doesn't matter what size it can go), just like Animate?

Thank you

Thank you for this video! :-)

Thanks

Thanks so much u made my day,

Im trying to change drives. How do I get the missing link box to show

THANKYOU so much!!!

It seems to get lost. It tells me a lot of intuitive things, but doesn't get to my problem. I didn't migrate my project - I created a set of 'temporary folders', and based my project on them. The project is now completed and I want it to point at my 'permanent folders'. I carried out the re-linking and it seemed easy. Then I renamed my 'temporary folders' to ensure that I could delete them. I can't, because the project is still pointing at them. This article doesn't help me to shake them off.

If I want to link to a different drive where I have made a copy and want to work from that driv instead. maybe I have it on a slow HDD and want to keep that as a backup and now want to work on a fast SSD where I have made a copy to all my media files

Great Help in problem...

Can anyone help me understand why Premiere won't relink my Photoshop media, I go through all the stages of relinking, but with my Photoshop media nothing happens. Can anyone assist as to why I can't overcome this. Thank you

When attempting to export, I get unknown error, which i believe ive narrow down to the r3d files in the timeline that have gone offline, when i attempt to relink them, after locating them without a problem, pp says that it is damaged or unsupported file. How can I relink my r3d files? , its super frustrating!

Colin ..... help!! :( My daughter edited a video of mine and, before she exported, her external hard disc crashed and she hasn't been able to recover the audio and video source files. I have them but I changed their names ....( I promise that I'll change them BEFORE editing from now on !! ) Can I get premiere to substitute the original files with the ones with the changed names?

I linked the media files, the video has appeared but its audio is mute. How do I fix this? I use Premiere Pro CC 2018.

life saver king

its saying something about the audio being deleted and undone if i say yes really confused please help

what if i relink it successfully, the clips are alright in the source monitor, but in the timeline monitor it still says "Media offline"?

This is a problem I am facing with content I have that is in different folders to the original content. To do an edit and then seek to link to another computer with the same footage but put in different locations!....

Hello.. quick question. When i try load a project, i get a "locating media" prompt and it sends me to my finder folder to find missing media... my issue is that it no longer show me which file it wants me to locate... it used to say "where is?" and i would simply find the file and cs6 would find all the necessary files... any idea how to fix this? Thanks

does this still work in 2019?

After finding only ONE render sucssefully it doesn't find all the others, meanwhile the first one doesn't work also! I moved my project to another computer and moved all of it (including the renders folders)! somehow all my videos are black screened (i hear only audio) somethimes when i open premiere it shows that i need to find some renders and sometimes not! in both ways nothing is working, the videos are black and the audio is perfect! PLEASE HELP! cant find the answer anywhere else

How do you do this without forcing the Link Media box? Mine wont show

would love to know how i can relink files that i RENAMED

why the clip has no sound on timeline after export the video please?

Not clear on The definition of "off lining" ? I'm thinking it's getting media outside of your computer?

how do you get to re link in the first place?

Bless You Sir

Thank you!!!

Premiere crashes every time I try to re link files, how to fix this ?

Great help. I guess!

How about a video for those of us who changed the file path of everything when we upgraded to network server. 2901 files!!

Mine doesn't even alert me that there are missing clips... All the footage in my bins have question marks. Ahh so annoying.

THANK YOU!!!!!!!

Was that fisheye footage I saw?

Thank you so much. Learned a lot of new useful tNice tutorialngs about soft soft!