This was surprisingly better than I expected. I had a batch of footage (about 20 or so) that I forgot to re-name yesterday, and today, I had another batch with identically named files. So I pulled out R-Name and re-named the footage to include date of shoot. Because I also had a project with the same media in FCP (I'm using both apps for this project), I expected to manually re-link all 20 files in both apps, and that was the case in FCP. But surprisingly, PPro managed to re-link to all the footage with one click. I'm assuming Premiere linked to the files in the folder based on timecode, and maybe tape name, but I can't find any documentation on this. So yea, just throwing it out here.
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