• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  re: Thumbnails in timeline are missing!

  Posted by Stillmoving on April 29, 2007 at 8:06 pm

  I am fairly comfortable in most aspects of FCP – but this has me a little stumped…
  Recently the thumbnail image of clips in a sequence have been showing the “offline” thumbnail — even though the clip is still linked to the media, and plays fine. Has anyone seen this before?

  Changing the view in SEQ. SETTINGS from NAME AND THUMBNAIL – to FILMSTRIP — brings back the clips thumbnail, however — (interestingly) – the first frame of that ‘filmstrip’ shows it to be offline – even though the remaining thumbnails of that clips ‘filmstrip’ show up fine. ???

  Sometimes you can just click the clip – and the thumbnail will appear — but then if you zoom in or out — it shows the media offline thumbnail. ( again, even though it’s not actually offline. )

  Match frame command doesn’t do anything to replace it.
  I recently cloned one of the FW drives daisy chained together storing my media – and swaped it out – so my idea is that it has to do with the Thumbnail Cache — but I’m not sure how to investigate, or correct.
  Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

  Many thanks in advance,

  David Roth weiss replied 19 years ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Ben Holmes

  April 29, 2007 at 10:45 pm

  [Stillmoving] “Has anyone seen this before?”

  Actually – yes. just had this exact behaviour in a recent project. Assumed it was a bug in the current version of FCP and didn’t investigate further. I don’t really find the thumbnails useful, so I turned it off (inherited the project settings).

  Sorry not to be any further help. Just thought you should know you are not alone..

  Ben

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  David Roth weiss

  April 30, 2007 at 7:33 am

  If you just trash the thumnail cache that will fix the problem.
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  Terry Moore

  May 3, 2007 at 2:30 pm

  I’ve seen it, too. How do we “trash the thumbnail cache”? I will definitely give that a try.
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  David Roth weiss

  May 3, 2007 at 3:05 pm

  Go to System Preferences and look to see which drive has your Thumbnail Cache. Now, close FCP. Then, use the find mechanism (i.e. the little magnifying glass to locate the Thumbnail Cache folder. Now go look inside that for the directory that matches the name of your project and delete all the little files in the directory that have FCP icons.

  That’s about as good as I can do from memory.

  DRW

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