Freeze frame: Media Offline

I've had a strange issue happening. Strange, because it is not every time.
I use L3 (Lower Thirds) on my spots.
The spots are long, so I use the Freeze Frame tool.
When I playback my rendered and ready to export spot, every thing looks fine.
However after watching the exported file (digital delivery) it happened a few times that I had the Media Offline message.

Any suggestions to avoid that?

(FYI no client monitor to check before exporting for delivery.... I know.. don't ask)

The exported file had the message, or the FCP timeline?

If it's the former, then I suspect you're exporting reference files by mistake when you should be exporting self-contained files. If it's the latter, then you are moving the original graphics files, renaming them, or you have an unstable drive that loses track of files. Run DiskWarrior to fix the drive directory (that's what determines how the drive locates its files) and try again.


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Did you do a full render before you exported?

All the best,

Tom

yeah, full render.

They are self contained files, we are not renaming, so it might be the unstable drives then...

Are you using flip4mac to get a wmv file? Flip4mac has this bug that's been around for eons, and you need to make sure your timeline is fully rendered before you export or you'll get the media offline placeholder in your wmv encodes.



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Oh no, no FlipforMac
Plain Apple Pro res 422 HQ sequence, exported via AJA Kona3, 1080i 29.97, 8bit

[yeah, full render. ]

Really? Look again. For instance, if you see pale green bar above the timeline, you have yet to fully render these areas and no "precompute" file is available for the lower thirds when you export.

Check "Render All" under the Sequence menu and see that *everything* is checked, then use Option-R on the current sequence. You may be surprised...

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Absolutelly fully rendered...

>However after watching the exported file (digital delivery) it happened a few times that I had the
>Media Offline message.

I gotta say, you got me there. I've only seen the Media offline message when using Flip4mac. Exporting will render everything that isn't rendered. I can't think of anything aside from FCP not accessing the media files properly. You could try trashing FCP preferences to see if it solves the problem.



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Loren Miller Wrote:
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>> Check "Render All" under the Sequence menu and see
> that *everything* is checked, then use Option-R on
> the current sequence. You may be surprised...
>
Just got surprised...... Full Render was NOT checked!!!