• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Duplicate item file name after using media manager

  Posted by M Brown on December 21, 2006 at 4:49 am

  I’m crashing a 15 minute trade show promo in 720P/59.94. I ran out
  of hard drive space on my travel edit system, DP 2GHX, 5 megs of ram,
  500 gb G-raid, DecklinkHd card. Rather than media manage the
  project, I chose to delete some un-needed files from the HD and
  ended up deleting my media. Don’t ask??

  Anyway, since I was at this
  stage, decided to take the project into our regular edit space, which
  has Kona II boards with similar computer configurations and our
  record decks.

  At this point, using an AJ HDC 150 deck, when I went to redigitize, I
  get the message “Duplicate Item filename”, the filename is blank and
  the ‘overwrite option is blank, as if the file already exists somewhere.

  Tried using the original project files wiht the same result. Tried
  copying the files and putting them in a bin in the browser, and had
  the same problem.

  Tried this out on a second Kona II system with similar Mac hardware,
  had the same result.

  I’m in the process of moving the traveling edit system into our
  office, but would appreciate any ideas on how to solve this issue.

  The only thing I can see is that this was a BM, FCP file and I’m
  trying to use it on a Kona II system. that shouldn’t be a problem,
  but??

  I still have several hours of work to do on the DVD, so if anyone has
  any ideas, so I can continue in the early, early AM, I’d be most
  appreciative.

  thx…mason

  M Brown replied 19 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Joe Paolo

  December 21, 2006 at 8:41 pm

  FCP uses the clip name as the QT file name. FCP thinks there is a file on your scratch disc with the same name as the clip. If this is true, them maybe all you need to do is relink. If you are sure you media is gone then just modify the file name when you get the duplicate message. Add a “1” or “copy” and redig away.

  joe
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  M Brown

  December 21, 2006 at 10:15 pm

  That’s what I would normally do, but in this case the filename box is blank, so for each file I need to type in a name that exactlyu matches the other clip, then add the one or whatever. Something else is happening here. There are no files in my system with similar names and it happened on two other edit systems with their own hard drives.

  thx..mb

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