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Lost Project, Bewildered
I am new to FCP HD. My boss asked me to learn how to use it, so I began wading through 1600+ pages of manual. I was able to log and capture some footage to play around with. I then trimmed some clips down, spliced them together with some interesting dissolves, added a music track, some lower third typing, rolling credits, and was feeling proud of my self. Here comes the slap in the face….then, my project disappeared! I worked on this project multiple times and always saved changes each time I closed the program. Each time I opened FCP it always brought up my project right where I had left off. I opened FCP a couple of days ago and I got these messages that all my clips were off line. It asked me if I wanted to reconnect and I clicked yes. It said this for each clip and I clicked yes for each one. The project is there, but it is not showing any edits. It looks as it did when I had initially put the clips in the time line, before any editing. Is my completed project gone forever? Or, is it hiding somewhere? I am also new to Mac (OS9), I have been learning Mac and FCP simultaneously, arrgghh!
Does anybody have any suggestions?
Thank you
BewilderedMarie
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8 Replies
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OK…first things first. In your project do you have a sequence listed? Default name is SEQUENCE 1. Double click on that and it should open up your timeline and show your edits.
Now…where is the project file stored? Is it in the documents folder? On the desktop? This is something you should not only keep track of, but also backup to another drive nightly.
Where is your footage? Did you capture it onto an external drive? Or to the main system drive? Really you should be capturing to a secondary drive that isn’t your system drive.
And you said you read the manual, have you done the tutorials? They help too. I know this can be tough, learning a new OS and all as well. Now, I do have a tutorial DVD on how to organize yourself with FCP coming out soon, so that will help you figure all this out. It will be available here on the Cow.
Also, because you are very new at this, we have a forum specifically for beginners. That can be found here:
https://creativecalf.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_view_posts.cgi?forumid=8
The leaders there are well versed at helping beginners figure things out. This is more of an advanced help forum.
Good luck.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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Hi,
Whenever you create a document in final cut it automatically saves a backup on your system, with the name of your file and a date. Try doing a search in ‘user/documents/final cut pro documents/autosave vault’.
grafxflow
grafx that flow!
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“I am also new to Mac (OS9), I have been learning Mac and FCP simultaneously, arrgghh!”
Are you actually learning FCP on a OS 9 machine? Or do you really mean OS X. Apple discontinued OS9 YEARS ago, and the current version of FCP is much better then the one that ran on OS9
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Thanks Shane, you are my hero!! That was so simple, all was there when I clicked the sequence. I will check out the beginners forum next time I screw up :-)!
Have a great day!!
cheers
marieMarie
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Actually, it really is a OS 9! It was a hand me down from a visualization lab. I work at a high end research facility, and they are going to upgrade this machine to an OS X in the near future. I have the 4.5 version of FCP, as elementary as this may sound…how old is 4.5? I will still be able to use this FCP after the upgrade right?
cheers
marieMarie
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If you are running FCP on OS9 then the highest version you can be running is FCP 3.0. FCP 4.5 only works with OSX.
FCP 4.5 is over 3 years old.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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Thanks, I will check that avenue too. Shane brought the “sequence 1” icon to my attention, and low and behold there were my projects edits!
Thanks everyone for the help!
your stumbling bumbling new CC friend,
marieMarie
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That’s strange, I rechecked, when I right click on FCP in the finder and click on get info, it definitely says 4.5, and the mac says OS 9…….but we have some computer techs that worked in the vislab that do strange things. They may have done something odd tht made it work. I’ll see what I can find out. I’m the last person that could figure that out on my own. 🙂 I’ll let you know if find anything out. Thanks again for all your help, it was much appreciated.
cheers
marie
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