Specifications

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6 To view a candidate for a missing file, select to
highlight the missing file. That file’s candidate
appears in the Candidates pane, where you can
view its information and waveform.
7 If you are not satisfied with the candidate for a
particular missing file, you can click
Find All
Candidates
for the selected file (see “Relinking
Individual Missing Files” on page 318).
Force Relinking Files
If you want to link to a substitute file (for example,
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, 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 Re-
link 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 al-
ways remembers the new link (the original link is
forgotten). For this reason, no files are actually re-
linked until you click
Commit Links.
To commit links:
1 Use the Relink window to link files as explained
in “Single and Multi-File Relinking” on
page 318.
2 Click Commit. You are asked to verify commit-
ting links.
3 Do one of the following:
• Click
Yes to commit links.
• Click
No to stop without affecting files.
Relinking and Aliases in
Catalogs
Catalogs are collections of “aliases” or “shortcuts”
to actual files. If the files are moved, an item in a
Catalog can become unlinked from the file it refer-
ences.
To relink a Catalog:
1 Open the Catalog.
2 Select items to relink.
3 Choose Relink Selected from the Browser menu
in that Catalog window.
The Automatically Find and Relink option is
the only relinking process that does not ask
you to verify links before they are committed.
If you use this option and are unsatisfied with
the results, close the session without saving
to prevent the new links from being commit-
ted.