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corrupt project
While running reverse telecine, the project saved, but then froze up. Now, when I try to open the proj from the project icon, it won’t get past reading 4%.
I can use the FCP icon and try and open the project but it still won’t open the original. I have tried booting from the autosave file with no luck.
Do I need to create a new project and import everything? Or is there something else I missing?
Thank you
Randy -
7 Replies
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Trash the preferences and try to open it again.
Salud,
rafael -
Might try taking the media offline, then opening the project. Recconnect a few clips at a time until the baddy shows up and crashes the machine. Save often.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D
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thanks guys.
I had tried trashing prefs (actually kept them in another folder), that didn’t work. So I tried your suggestion of having drives off line. Good news, that allowed me to open project. I replaced my original settings…and the project still opens. I opened my raid drives and saw there were a bunch of .tmp files, which I assume were the transitions during the reverse telecine process. So should I trash those files, and then try reconnecting media? Or reconnect first?
Randy
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I don’t think tmp files are telecine files. They are temporary files of some sort… they’ll most likely trash themselves. I’d leave them alone unless they get in the way later or something.
Try reconnecting the clips a few at a time, and save when reconnection is successful. You likely have a bad media file there causing the problem in the first place.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D
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Hi Jerry,
Thanks again for your time and help.I have gone through and reconnected the show a few clips at a time. When I would find a bad one…I would delete the media and the clip. (I’ll import them later). Every so often, one would freeze up the program and I would have to hard boot. I would have to open the project again off line, then mount the drives. Which meant the previous clips were again offline, but I figured they were all right since I had already tried relinking.
Since I’ve gone through the show, the program will still not open if the drives are online….do I need to repair the drives with disk utility in some way? I have 2.5 terabytes of material..I would hate to have to import all of those p2 files again.Sorry for my ignorance on FCP…first timer.
Randy
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I don’t think I’d touch a drive with the original files on it. Instead, copy the files to another drive and see if you can’t get to them that way. How is this drive formatted? Mac OS extended? or?
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D
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The drive is raid 0 striped, Mac OS Extended, no journaling.
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