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Glitch where audio clips are substituted for another file of the same name from a different folder

I'm making a series of videos where the individual files have similar names but are in different folders by episode. Sometimes audio files of the same name will randomly get swapped for each other despite being in different folders.

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  • Michele Gulley commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Thanks for the update. I appreciate you looking into it. I'm going to be giving my files unique names from now on no matter what folder they're in.

  • Matt Stegner commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hi Michelle,
    Thanks so much for the project, it helped me understand that this is related to the relinking dialog. I have been able to replicate and think I understand what is happening. I have filed a bug, under our internal reference number that you can refer to when talking to us in the future about it: DVAPR-4225878

    A workaround that might help you now would be to turn on the feature: “Preferences>Media>Write XMP ID to files on import…”
    What this does it add metadata to your files on import that gives it a unique number that Premiere uses to relink. If that is off then Premiere relies on only file names and paths. When you have file names that match, but in separate folders, the relinking dialog can get confused and automatically link to a file based on just the filename and extension. This feature will alter your files metadata and timestamp, so if you use some sort of source control system they will be altered.

    A second workaround is to not use the same file names for unique clips. I understand that some cameras make that difficult. The Premiere ingest workflow via the media browser can give clips unique names. If you are working with a specific camera that writes generic file names, you might want to look into this.

    Explanation of the bug:
    The bug seems to happen when you move a project or project media, and the application needs to relink. When you point to a single file in the relink dialog, Premiere attempt to figure out of it can use that file path to automatically relink the other files. This is a convince added to Premiere so you don’t have to manually relink every single clip. When you have a file “/Folder1/Foo.mp3” and “/Folder2/Foo.mp3”, Premieres auto relinking system seems to be looking for just “Foo.mp3”, finds it in folder 1, and relinks to it, even though it really needs to be linked to the “Foo.mp3” file in folder 2.
    This seems to only happen when relinking after moving project media.

  • Matt Stegner commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hi Michele,
    I don't think the project was attached, I don't see it. The project will be helpful so I can see the exact properties of the clips and if there are additional details like speed changes or effects.

    Can you attach the file again or send it to audbugs@adobe.com attention Matt.

  • Michele Gulley commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I don't think I can upload the folders they're rather large and the content is for the company I work for... I could upload just the premiere file but I'm not sure what good that would do on its own.

    That's the thing about this error, everything worked fine for almost a year and then out of nowhere it started happening but not to every project and with no apparent order. It's the randomness that confuses me.

  • Matt Stegner commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Could you provide a Project file so I could try to replicate this? I've tried some tests on my end but it works fine for me.

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