Re-linked media, can't shake the red "media offline" screen

I just got the project file & media for a friend's feature & can't shake the "media offline" screen.

Everything is re-linked, the audio plays, but the picture is stuck on a "media offline" banner that names one specific clip. That's the only video I get across 80 minutes of picture. I'm working on a copy of the sequence, and have deleted all the plug-ins via a "select all"/"remove attributes" combo. There was a bunch of color-correcting and a "s_spotlight.plugin" on the footage that I removed.

I can match-frame any clip I like back to the viewer, and it's online and plays nicely. Just won't appear in the timeline.

Is this a "delete preferences" kind of issue? Something else? All the other projects on my system are humming along nicely and trouble-free. This is FCP 6.0.6, running on OS X 10.6.

Thoughts, anyone?

Jeff

Trash your thumbnail cache files.



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Thanks, Strypes! That's a good idea, but it didn't work, largely because I'm an idiot.

I deleted both my "thumbnail cache" and "thumbnail data" files. On the timeline clips, both before and after deleting the caches, the thumbnails turn up perfectly fine and visible.

While poking through the timeline, I zoomed out and re-scaled my track sizes to the smallest width. This revealed a massive, media offline reference clip about 6 video tracks above what my timeline was showing. Hadn't even dawned on me that there could be another clip floating above everything that was offline.

Delete that, and voila! Everything is lovely. D'OH!

Palm, meet forehead.

Okay, admittedly, I was actually under the impression it was just the thumbnails. Glad you got that fixed though.



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