• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Relink Gone Bad!

  Posted by Frederic Bohbot on January 14, 2008 at 11:57 pm

  Hey all, I recently moved a project AND it’s media to a new MacPro with new hard drives. I had been cutting with my media on external drives. Anyway, having successfully relinked all my clips, I discovered that the wav files I had imported and cut into my show had NOT relinked properly: the clips seem to be referencing the correct files, but are TOTALLY OUT OF SYNC. Also, they’re out of sync by different, almost random amounts. The sound man had recorded a lot of sound “wild”, so the show is a mess! DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO GET THE FINAL CUT TO RELINK AGAIN CORRECTLY?? Is this due to a “time code” issue with wav files?

  Thom Obarski replied 18 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Thom Obarski

  January 15, 2008 at 1:11 am

  You didn’t happen to also upgrade your system or FCP version did you?

  “This is post, you can’t fix it after this.”
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  Frederic Bohbot

  January 15, 2008 at 1:58 am

  I didn’t upgrade my final cut version, but i did switch to a Mac Pro from a G5, but was on FCP 6 on both. And When i went to the Mac Pro i kept working on 4 external hard drives with no trouble, but external drives make me paranoid so i installed some big internal drives and transfered the footage over to them and then relinked.

  SO essentially nothing changed except for going from External drives to Internal drives.

  But when i relinked it did say “you are linking with a new version of FCP and cannot go back” But i’ve seen that 100 times with no problem??
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  Thom Obarski

  January 15, 2008 at 2:12 am

  I experienced this same thing updating a project when the Studio2 upgrades came out. Anytime you change something, be it drives, drivers, computers, etc and you change the FCP version any external audio files slip out of sync for some reason. I don’t know why this is, but I see 2 possible workarounds for you:

  1. Edit off the new hard drives on whatever version of FCP you started the project
  or
  2. Finish the project with your original setup with the hard drives

  Sorry i can’t be more helpful but i experienced this same thing we were syncing to dats and creating subclips from which to edit. We spent several days searching for a solution between the cow forums, the LAFCPUG forums, and apple techs; And it really sucked but we just had to finish it in FCPv5, sorry wish i could be more help.
  ~Thom

  “This is post, you can’t fix it after this.”

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