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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
Candidates for the selected file (see “Relinking
Individual Missing Files” on page 192).
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.
Committing Links
There is no Undo for relinking. Once a file has
been relinked and the session saved, the session
always remembers the new link (the original
link is forgotten). For this reason, no files are ac-
tually relinked until you click Commit Links.
To commit links:
1
Use the Relink window to link files as ex-
plained in “Single and Multi-File Relinking” on
page 192.
2
Click Commit. You are asked to verify com-
mitting links.
3
Do one of the following:
• Click Yes to commit links.
– or –
• Click No to stop without affecting files.
The Automatically Find and Relink option
is the only relinking process that does not
ask you to verify links before they are com-
mitted. If you use this option and are unsat-
isfied with the results, close the session
without saving to prevent the new links
from being committed.
Commit Links dialog