relinking with ulead 7

sammy boy · Post by **sammy boy** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 10:53 am

Hi, I am having problems with relinking clips in my libary manager on a ulead 7.

I am not sure how relinking is surposed to work but have tried just about everything, any clues would help.
Sam

l-upward · Post by **l-upward** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 12:12 pm

Sammy

I have the same problem in VS8. I opened a big project with about 150 clips and it gives me the message "original file does not exist". When I click on relink it invites me to open each clip but I can only do this individually. I am unable to highlight all clips at once. Why are my links lost? I haven't had this problem before now it has happened to all my projects

MikeGunter · Post by **MikeGunter** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 2:02 pm

Hi,

I have IEEE1394 external drives. The usual reason for me for the library to get screwy is that the drive letter changes.

I've since assigned letters.

Mike

jchunter · Post by **jchunter** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 2:04 pm

This is the way I do it. Load a project and if you relink one file, VS will usually relink all the others. Select all the associated library icons and press the delete button, deleting ONLY the icon, not the file. Then select all the lnked clips in the timeline and drag them to the library en masse.

BTW, I have learned from sad experience to keep projects small (5 - 15 min.) because they are much easier to edit, then make the DVD from several project video files.
John

BrianCee · Post by **BrianCee** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 7:10 pm

Sorry to disagree Mike - the usual way for the library icons to become unlinked is the implementation of daylight savings in your country with the attendant automatic PC clock change - there is a patch but it doesn't appear to have worked for me.

l-upward · Post by **l-upward** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 7:30 pm

Brian

Your theory seems plausible. I had trouble with linking of all my projects on Easter Sunday after the clocks went forward in England

BrianCee · Post by **BrianCee** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 7:35 pm

I can assure you it is not a theory - it is a hard and basic fact of UVS life - just read some of the other posts in this forum regarding daylight savings and a daylight saving patch.

THoff · Post by **THoff** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 8:06 pm

Guys, you are both right -- it's both.

UVS looks for changes to the file, which it unfortunately does by examining file sizes and timestamps, and when DST goes into or out of effect, the local time of the file changes by one hour. That's a bug, plain and simple.

The other way for the library to prompt for a relink is of course a change in the drive letter assignments (usually of removeable / external drives), which will change the path to the file. That's not really a bug.