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I am digitizing, logging and working all on separate drives. Usually I can open a project I get from a logger and simply reconnect the media to that stored on my editing drive. Sometimes, though, the file name is missing in the reconnect window. The only recourse I have is to reconnect files one at a time.
1. What makes this happen. 2. Is there a way to prevent this from happening in the future. 3. Is there a more automatic way to reconnect if the file name is missing in the reconnect window. I am running OS10.5.6 on 2x Quad Core 3GHz. I have FCP 6.0.5. The drives are primarily FW800 with plenty of capacity left. I also have an eSATA drive that I am not yet using in this workflow. The footage is DVCProHD 720p24. Thanks guys, Hans
I still occasionally have this issue. What is generally the cause of it is a PERMISSIONS issue...you don't have some odd permission access on that drive. Repair permissions SOMETIMES works. But not always.
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Don't reconnect. Manually drag the clips from the finder level into the project.
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I am having this problem now. I've seen this before and while I'm usually just able to find the files manually, this time I cannot because there's simply too many. I can't re-import because they're being used throughout a rather large sequence.
I can't imagine that it was a permissions issue- given that all offline clips were appearing with full names just minutes prior. Has anyone found the cause/fix for this? I know it's got to be pretty common since it's happened to me on a number of occasions... I just can't work around it right this time.
"Has anyone found the cause/fix for this?"
it has happend to me when a drive has gone accidently removed / switched off. a re-start has fixed in those cases. i haven't heard of anyone defining exactly what the problem is. if your project was fine a few minutes ago, try an autosaved version there is a new tool that could help from Video Toolshed [www.videotoolshed.com] it can reconnect clips based on their reel# and TC alone. could be your salvation. nick
Okay- So I think now I can offer some insight. I did get around the problem just by relinking things manually (big hassle)- but found another project with the same problem this morning.... only this time EVERYTHING was; " is missing
Alright, stay with me here; As some of my other recent posts have chronicled, there seems to be a string of bad G-Drive Qs out there. I, of course, have managed to purchase 3 of these delinquents within the last 3 months. One of these drives had the media for my current project.. it began to fail intermittently until it was finally useless on Friday. My client had a backup copy of this whole drive which I received this morning - I opened up my project file getting the usual "Offline" dialogs- except this time none of it could be relinked - only a single line item appeared; " is missing, and it wouldn't even tell me the names of the clips! So I started looking deeper. In my browser, I enabled the "Source" column by control-clicking; "show source"- and a column appeared with row after row of; " is missing " is missing " is missing... Ah-Ha!!! So it's not an issue with the relinking process... but an issue with xml data in my project itself!!! Fortunately (and unfortunately)- because of my constant problems with these drives, I had my autosave set to every 5 minutes. I restored the most recent autosave - my project came up... of course all offline, but the "source" column now had the correct file path listed! 1TB_5a: SCRATCH: Capture Scratch: AOTM :0002PZ.mov 1TB_5a: SCRATCH: Capture Scratch: AOTM :0003W9.mov... etc. (Noting that this file path also INCLUDES the name of the master clip -so this must be all that FCP has to go on when reconnecting media!) It looks like when the original drive finally failed- I accidentally saved my project AFTER the drive went down in all my frustration- thus saving a version with all the media paths severed... reverting to the last good save, an autosave from less then 5 minutes previous brought up the project with the source paths intact! Reconnecting from here worked as expected! So I'll have to concur with Nick - when a drive is moved or shut off (or fails)- and you save your project AFTER that, it can sever the file paths to your original footage (which INCLUDES the master file name) - thus FCP cannot recognize the media without being pointed directly at it... clip by clip. BTW - Nick, I did try that video toolshed - it was choking on some of my media but it does seem like it might have otherwise worked. Thanks!
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