video disappeared but not "missing"
I'm revisiting a project that was worked on several months ago. The footage was shot on a Canon 5D Mark II and originally I used Optimized Media while editing. I had since deleted the Optimized Media to conserve drive space, and now that I'm revisiting the project, I decided to render out Proxy Media.
Upon creating the Proxy Media, I noticed all the clips in my event and their respective timelines went black. There were no warning red signs of "MIssing Media", but when I tried to play the footage from the Event or the Project timeline, the video was just black, and with no sound.
I attempted to relink the footage in the Event to the original media, and when I did that, I got an error saying the files were "incompatible" and that "the original media had no audio, and this media has audio". Which by the way would be impossible. The original footage always had audio.
I"ve tried deleting all the footage from the Event, then re-importing and re-rendering the Proxy media. The footage plays fine now in the Event window, but my footage is still black with no audio in the Project timeline. And when I tried to relink Project files, I get the same error that the files are "incompatible and that the original media had no audio and this has audio".
It doesn't look too hopeful, but has anyone experienced this before? Any ideas??