relative path to clips in edius?

[sholizar]

if i backup project in edius with all it's data (clips/sound/photos etc') (all those in project's folder) to another drive or a new computer, i can't open the project from there if the drive's letter (of the new computer or backup drive) is different from the drive's letter where the project (and his files) was made in the first place.
this is very annoying.
i can't really have a backup without having problems later (with the offline clip dialogue) when i want to open the project from his backup place.

also, after i open a project from the backup drive, and use the offline clip dialogue to connect my files again to the project, i have for example a lot of clips in the *same folder* that i need to connect again to the project, but i can't connect all of them together.
i have to walkthrough each clip separately and connect it to the project.
if i have a lot of files to connect (and i have) this is very inconvenient.
why edius do not check automatically if there are more offline clips in this folder i now connected a clip from?
this feature was exist in premiere 6 (not premiere pro) from 2001.

and again, after i fixed my project and connect all my offline clips, if i'll move this project again to another place, i'll have to use the offline clips dialogue all over again in the future...

so to sum it up i need those 2 things:

1. be able to backup my full project (include all files) and to be able to open it from the backup place without a problem. i need it to work out of the box again.

2.in offline clips dialogue that edius will check automatically for missing clips in a folder i just connect a file from and if it find, that it will also connect them automatic.

thank you.

p.s.
i'm using edius 7.53

[Drbgaijin]

There should be quite a few good free suggestions from forum members.
I will start the ball rolling with one way to take complete control over all your EDIUS media and more.

http://www.gaijin-eyes.com/2015/2015ediusmm.html

But my solution is not completely free.
Regards
Douglas

[7hbg]

if i backup project in edius with all it's data (clips/sound/photos etc') (all those in project's folder) to another drive or a new computer, i can't open the project from there if the drive's letter (of the new computer or backup drive) is different from the drive's letter where the project (and his files) was made in the first place.
this is very annoying.
i can't really have a backup without having problems later (with the offline clip dialogue) when i want to open the project from his backup place.
...
and again, after i fixed my project and connect all my offline clips, if i'll move this project again to another place, i'll have to use the offline clips dialogue all over again in the future...
...
1. be able to backup my full project (include all files) and to be able to open it from the backup place without a problem. i need it to work out of the box again.
...

Hi

EDIUS will not help you there…

I am surprised that this still is a problem.

I take it, you grew up on GUI computers ;) so you would not know about one of the most useful
but forgotten command in the old DOS that still exists and is your friend here and now.
The command is…..: SUBST. You can substitute any path for a drive letter: For example:

subst P: “D:\Edius Projects”

After executing this command in a DOS window, you will have a new virtual drive “P:\”.
Anything in “D:\Edius Projects” will now be accessible through “P:\” drive. Beauty of
that approach is that you can have the same “P:\” drive pointing to anything you desire.
For example, you could point it to a local drive, network drive, DVD, USB drive, etc.
and it still will be just “P:\folder\file_you_want_to_read.txt”.

There are some small problems though:

1. SUBST is not persistent across reboots. To solve that just create a BAT file with
   ‘subst P: “X:\Your Path”’ and place it in your Startup folder. Each time you reboot,
   the bat file will be executed and substitution recreated.
   Or you may have a folder full of bat files to create substitution as needed.
   
2. When creating a project and storing files in multiple folders, “X:\Your Path” must be
   the root path to ALL your files.
   
3. You will still have to relink the files in existing projects, but any new project
   you create will never have to be relinked, the root will always be your
   substituted path, ie:
   
   • D:\Project Files\Edius\* => P:\*
   • F:\Ron\Edius\* => P:\*
   • X:\* => P:\*

I have used it when writing software, editing video and audio.
A bit of planning is required, but it makes it so easy when moving projects across computers:
All files are where you expect them.

I hope it will help you.

[antonsvideo]

if i backup project in edius with all it's data (clips/sound/photos etc') (all those in project's folder) to another drive or a new computer, i can't open the project from there if the drive's letter (of the new computer or backup drive) is different from the drive's letter where the project (and his files) was made in the first place.
this is very annoying.
i can't really have a backup without having problems later (with the offline clip dialogue) when i want to open the project from his backup place.

also, after i open a project from the backup drive, and use the offline clip dialogue to connect my files again to the project, i have for example a lot of clips in the *same folder* that i need to connect again to the project, but i can't connect all of them together.
i have to walkthrough each clip separately and connect it to the project.
if i have a lot of files to connect (and i have) this is very inconvenient.
why edius do not check automatically if there are more offline clips in this folder i now connected a clip from?
this feature was exist in premiere 6 (not premiere pro) from 2001.

and again, after i fixed my project and connect all my offline clips, if i'll move this project again to another place, i'll have to use the offline clips dialogue all over again in the future...

so to sum it up i need those 2 things:

1. be able to backup my full project (include all files) and to be able to open it from the backup place without a problem. i need it to work out of the box again.

2.in offline clips dialogue that edius will check automatically for missing clips in a folder i just connect a file from and if it find, that it will also connect them automatic.

thank you.

p.s.
i'm using edius 7.53

1. it takes 3 seconds to change drive letter in disk management (I always name my video drive V)

2. you can connect all offline clips in one hit by selecting all, then choose re-link folder and simply select the project folder in the new drive letter drive

[SoundFreak_HD]

Normally when my clips go offline when using a project on another computer I select relinking with "exact match" ticked to OFF, this normally does the trick even with thousands if clips in just a few seconds.

What you might do is that if you have multiple computers and multiple hard drives to force windows to use the same drive letter across multiple systems.

I have 3 systems where I move hard drives in between and named the drives in each machine the same drive letter.

I have each drive with a label of contents and drive letter.
Works pretty smooth......

[sholizar]

thank you all for your answers.
you helped a lot.
i already succeeded to reconnect all my project files with the re-link folder option in the offline clips dialogue.

i still don't know if i'll change the letter of the drive, use the dos command, or just relink again if i need to open the project again in the future.
after all, it's just couple of clicks to re link again all the offline clips (with the re-link folder option).