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To relink multiple missing files:
1 Configure Areas to Search. (See “Selecting Ar-
eas to Search” on page 257.)
2 Select one or more items in the Files to Relink
list. The Find Links button becomes available.
3 Click Find Links.
4 Configure criteria for relinking, if necessary, in
the Linking Options dialog:
• By default, Find by Name and ID is en-
abled.
• To add additional matching criteria, select
an option from the Linking Options dialog.
(Modification Date is only applicable to
Catalogs.)
•If Match Duration is enabled, Pro Tools only
selects files of the same length or greater.
5 Click OK to continue (or click Cancel to return
to the Relink window).
Pro Tools begins to search for an acceptable can-
didate for the first missing file (the first item se-
lected in the Files to Relink list). A link icon ap-
pears next to each file as Pro Tools finds and
links the first acceptable candidate to the miss-
ing file. The Link Path column shows the loca-
tion of the selected candidate. Pro Tools contin-
ues searching, matching, and linking for each
missing file in the Files to Relink list.
6 To view the selected candidate for a particular
missing file, select to highlight the missing file.
That file’s candidate appears in the Candidates
pane, where you can view its file information
and waveform.
7 If, after the Find Links process is finished, you
are not satisfied with the candidate selected for a
particular missing file, you can click Find All Can-
didates for the selected file (see “Relinking Indi-
vidual Missing Files” on page 258).
Force Relinking Files
If you want to link to a substitute file (for exam-
ple, if you know a file has the same audio or
video but does not have a matching File Name
or Unique ID), you can force a relink.
To force relink an audio file, its file format
(WAV, SD2, AIFF, or MXF), sample rate and bit
depth must match those of the original file.
To force relink a video file, its format (Quick-
Time, Avid, MXF, or OMF) and frame rate must
match those of the original file.
To force a relink:
1 Choose Window > Project.
2 Choose Relink Offline from the Browser menu.
3 In the Relink window, select one item in the
Files to Relink list.
4 Navigate in the Areas to Search pane to locate
the file you want to relink.
5 Drag the file to the Candidates pane in the
Relink window.
6 Click the Link icon next to the file you
dragged to the Candidates pane.
7 Click the Commit Links button.
Linking options
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