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Media Manager File Problem
Howdy,
I’m on a Dual 2GHz Power PCG5, 6gb DDR SDRAM, OS 10.5.2, FCP 6.0.2., QT 7.4.1, PS CS2 9.0.2. I’ve had a strange issue occur after media managing a project. When I try to open the FCP media managed project, some files appear offline, even though I can see the files in the “media” folder in Media Manager. When I try to manually reconnect them, I get a warning notice that the problem is with the media start/stop time. All the troublesome file icons also have timecode listed next to them in the browser and I noticed under the “data” tab in the file properties that it lists “0” instead of the normal data rate info. Also, the types of files affected aren’t consistent. Some are part of a series of sequentially ordered files from a camera hard drive and the other related files around the problem files appear fine.
Any input into what might be going on? FYI, another guy in my office had the same problem with a recent media managed project.
Thanks,
John Couture
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Media Management in FCP remains a sick joke; inexcusably poor design and terribly implementation. The successful users have learned to take many steps to protect their output. One is preparing all subclips, nests, time-altered media, and still images as stand alone media.
You can search for Media Manager here and find hundreds of possibly useful threads.I have not ever seen the warning you are describing, sorry. Is there anything about one of those clips, besides the data rate, that might give you a clue? Are they split edits? Trimmed from nests? The clips with 0 data rate, how big are they physically? Do they even exist? Can they be opened in QT? You don’t have to answer any of these questions.
If you can, give the wonks a few days to make some more helpful suggestions. I do not use Media Manager regularly enough to offer much.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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