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Reconnect Media does not update clip
I am running FCP 5.1.4 on a 2 x 3 GHz Dual-Core Intel mac. I am outputting motion graphics as DVC-Pro HD p24 clips from After Effects and importing them into FCP. Whenever I make a change and re-output the clips from After Effects and reconnect media, the clip within FCP does not reflect any changes I have made. If I select ‘Open in External Editor’, the clip will open in Quicktime, and the change will be there, but not in FCP! It’s as if FCP is caching the video.
I am confounded. I’m not sure if it’s 5.1.4, the DVC-Pro HD codec, or the Intel Mac. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Is it something really obvious that I am overlooking? I sometimes have to restart the computer in order to clear this “cache”. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Actually, no. The clip is in a DVC-Pro HD p24 Sequence, and requires no rendering. Doesn’t matter if I view it in the canvas or the viewer, it refuses to update the clip and still seems to reference the old clip.
Maybe FCP doesn’t truly play HD clips back natively? Maybe it caches the video in some rendered form for real time playback?
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Nope.
I am making the clip offline in FCP first, deleting the clip in question from the disk. I’m also duplicating the entry in the render queue in AE so that the file is going to the exact same location with the exact same settings. It’s not a filename issue. When I choose open in editor in FCP from the right-click menu, it opens the correct clip in Quicktime with changes intact, changes that are not reflected in FCP.
The behavior is just like a web browser that displays the cached image after the image has been updated. With a browser, you can force it to do a refresh, but so far I have not found anything comparable in FCP except to restart the program, and occasionally the computer.
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I actually have not tried trashing the prefs, but I’ve tried steps 1 and 2. I’ll give that a try, thanks.
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