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  re-connecting media, file-by-file-by-file…

  Posted by Bob Cole on January 17, 2009 at 1:46 am

  Started a project on a MacPro, ran out of time and had to leave town for a job. I decided to copy the project file onto my MacBook Pro, and the folder containing the media files to an external hard drive.

  I thought, based on past experience, that it would be a snap to reconnect the media. But I discovered two weird things:

  1. About half the time, FCP told me that the file to reconnect had the right name, but the wrong start and end. Did I REALLY want to connect this file? Of course – and it worked fine. So, why the error/warning message?

  2. Although I checkmarked the box to reconnect all other files in the path, FCP didn’t do that even once. I had to reconnect every single file.

  So what did I do wrong here?

  bob c

  Jerry Hofmann replied 17 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Jerry Hofmann

  January 17, 2009 at 2:38 pm

  You didn’t use the media manager to copy the files… that works just fine for me when reconnecting… because you don’t have to at all! Just create a new project file during the process from the Media Manager’s window and it will be already connected to the copies.

  Jerry

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