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What the Hell!!?
I had to reinstall FCP 4.5 because I had an issue with Compressor, and I was working on a very large project, but all of the footage of said project was and still is saved on an external drive. Now that it is reinstalled I’m opening my project to find a number of clips have gone offline and have seemingly been deleted, I can’t find them when I search to reconnect my media, what the hell is going on, this is a BIG PROBLEM, I have a deadline and I don’t need this. Help me please!!
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Ok, first off, never re-install FCP during a project unless FCP is the problem. Second, why didn’t you just re-install just Compressor? Third, you should have exported a self-contained movie prior to the reinstall.
Change your Reconnect Media settings to “Manually select files.” It’s possible some of your names are different on the media drives. Media doesn’t just disappear off your drives, it’s probable that some names are not exactly the same on your media drives and you’ll need to manually re-link them.
One issue that can arise is if you decided to capture audio and video as separate files. That causes a lot of headaches when reconnecting media and is why you really don’t want to do that.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.comNow in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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> Media doesn’t just disappear off your drives, it’s probable that some names are not exactly the same on your media drives and you’ll need to manually re-link them.
< Media has been reported to simply disappear off drives. The topic hasn't come up recently but it rages every now and then. We have no idea what causes it or where the media goes but the directory shows no record of the media files and recovery applications do not find any directory bits to indicate the file ever existed, which is clearly impossible. But that's what has been reported by folks who know how to recover stuff. It's rare, so rare as to be a non-problem. Unless, of course, it happens to you. I will vouch for everything Walter has asked and suggested and add that there were questions you could have asked here first. We truly hope you figure it out quickly and painlessly but, if it was me, I'd try to figure out how I was going to talk this over with the client and explain why there wasn't a fail safe plan in place. bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: "For crying out loud, read the freakin' manual." -
[bogiesan] “Media has been reported to simply disappear off drives. The topic hasn’t come up recently but it rages every now and then. We have no idea what causes it or where the media goes but the directory shows no record of the media files and recovery applications do not find any directory bits to indicate the file ever existed, which is clearly impossible. But that’s what has been reported by folks who know how to recover stuff. “
I can honestly say in four years of cutting with FCP on about 7 different workstations, I’ve never had media simply disappear. Render files get lost all the time when a drive gets moved from one workstation to another, but never captured media.
As for a fail safe plan, get a bunch of cheap Firewire 400 drives and some backup software. Back up everything you do to those drives at night.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.comNow in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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