some media files went off-line? Where are the now?

Hi everyone,

I am still very new here and aI have a problem:

I am working on a project and nearly every time I am capturing new footage into it , half my clips ,in a sequence where I am working in, have gone off-line, by the time I got back to it.
And no matter what I try, I can't reconnect them. They're gone. pfft!

I am working with FCP6
mac osx 10.4.11
Sony pd 170

Where are you capturing to in the first place?

> I am working on a project and nearly every time I am capturing new footage into it , half my
> clips ,in a sequence where I am working in, have gone off-line, by the time I got back to it.
> And no matter what I try, I can't reconnect them. They're gone. pfft!

Sounds like a drive problem to me. What is your Capture Scratch? Is the target drive properly formatted? How full is it? Are you using Capture Now? It sounds as if your new clip captures are replacing your old ones.


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I am capturing in the "log and capture".

And yes, sometimes I use "capture now", and I suspect there could be a link..

I am using a 200G second (but internal ) drive which came with the mac, with 80G available.
I am recently backing everything up on a ext drive which is formatted to osx extended(journaled)
But the problems started before I got that.

i remember this was a bug with FCP a while back.
what version are you on?
if it's a point zero version, you should update it.


nick

It is a 6.0.5

I think it has to do with "capture now" which I sometimes use because of another weird problem:
If I set all the ins and outs and batch capture the clips, they remain red-slashed and I can't connect them .
If that Happens I give up and ' capture now'
Why is that ?

> If I set all the ins and outs and batch capture the clips, they remain red-slashed and I can't
> connect them.

When the Batch Capture is done, try clicking "Cancel" instead of "Done". I've seen this bug before, but only on systems using a Kona 2 card; still, the trick is worth trying. Also, what is your QuickTime version?


www.derekmok.com