• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Reconnecting Media

  Posted by Melissa Palmer on January 3, 2009 at 2:29 am

  My harddrive crashed and I lost half of the tapes that I digitized, I copied them back onto the harddrive from a backup drive and was able to reconnect everything in the browser (but only one clip at a time). Unfortunately, I have tried various things, but the sequences in the timeline are still offline. Do I have to go in and reconnect all of those clips one by one as well? I have been able to do it this way, but is there an easier/faster method? Thanks in advance for any suggestions that anyone can give me.

  Melissa Palmer replied 17 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Rafael Amador

  January 3, 2009 at 7:00 am

  Hi Melissa,
  When you open a project and there is media off-line, FC asks if you want to reconnect the media all at once.
  Rafael

  http://www.nagavideo.com
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  Francois Stark

  January 3, 2009 at 10:01 am

  Highlight a clip on the timeline. Apple-9 shows the clip info. Go to logging. If you don’t see a path to the clip or its filename, it means the project has lost any reference to the file. In this case each clip must be connected individually, and usually it’s a mess.

  If you can see the path and filename, all is well. Close the clip info window. Select multiple clips on the timeline. Right click (or cmd-click) on one of them and select reconnect. The clips should be found automatically. Click connect to finish the process.

  Good luck
  F

  Regards
  Francois
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  Melissa Palmer

  January 4, 2009 at 1:52 am

  Thanks everyone, this has been very helpful!

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