reconnecting oddities

reconnecting oddities

I´ve got 6 offline timelines (miniDV) and was in the process of doing an online when things started getting odd.

I made copies of my timelines.
Made the material offline (leave material on disk) in the copies of my timelines.
Went off and proceeded with the online.

A day later I opened my now old offline timelines.
Hey presto some clips were suddenly offline.

No problem I thought I´ll just reconnect those guys.

If I highlight a clip for reconnection I get the reconnect dialogue box.

Problem is that the clip or clips are not listed in the files to reconnect box.
It´s empty........

I just have the name of the hard drive and nothing else.
Oh yes and I have a tiny little vertical blue line that looks like a cursor, just a bit fatter!

I even tried doing this blind clicking vainly on search but to no avail!

Any ideas.

I´ve got about 30 clips and would really like to be able to reconnect them!

have trashed preferences!
thanks

paurray

dual 2.5 G5
2GB Ram
Mac OSX 10.4.3
FCP 5.0.2

Did you re-start your Mac and try again? Also, look in your scratch drive to make sure the clips are really there and have not vanished.

Hi Mike

I restarted. Still gone.

Also did a couple of searches in the finder and I believe that the clips are gone.

The only thing that I can think of is the Black Magic card. Forgot to mention this. It´s the basic HD card.

Can´t remember exactly how it was but I did capture using alternatively DV Pal and Blackmagic Pal. I have lots of suspicious looking files with either av or v at the end.

Just went to get the online done now!

any thoughts?

paurray

I honestly don't know what is going on . Seeing a lot of disappearing files oddities in FCP 5. I'm afraid you are forced to re digitize