• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Reconnecting media issues.

  Posted by Joe Warrington on March 30, 2009 at 11:33 am

  Hi there..

  I’m having issues reconnecting media files in my FCP project. The project was recently rescued from a hard drive that died.

  So, here is whats happening…

  All the media files that FCP wants to link to are there in Finder Folder, but FCP will only find about 30% of them. The rest display “Media Offline”. I’ve tried going through “reconnect media” and finding the files manually, but FCP just won’t load them. It doesn’t give me an error message, it just doesn’t do anything when i select the files and click ok. I also have to change it to see All Files rather than just audio or video. But..When I find the files in finder, I can append the video files with .mov, and they run fine in quicktime, and i can do the same with the audio files… Also, the file Type and Creator tags are the same on videos that FCP can read and the ones it can’t read.Any thoughts? I have tried everything i can think of.

  Thanks! 🙂

  Joe Warrington replied 17 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

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  Simon Hustings

  March 31, 2009 at 2:02 pm

  Joe,
  The fact that you have to instruct FCP to look at all files not just Audio/Video files tell me there may be a problem with the rescued files even if they do play in QT.
  Have you tried opening one of the shorter files in QT, exporting it using current settings and importing that new file into FCP? Not an ideal solution, but it may be a half decent workaround. (depending on the quantity of footage)
  If all else fails, can you not batch capture the footage from source again?

  All the best,
  Simon.
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  Joe Warrington

  April 3, 2009 at 1:24 pm

  Hi Simon,

  Thanks very much for your help, I didn’t use your idea in the end but in the process of trying it out, I realised I hadn’t tagged the Type and Creator IDs properly, which is essentially what exporting with quicktime would have fixed for me. I used Quick Changer for this, its free and pretty good for fixing file types.

  So yeah, nice one, cheers 🙂 saved me alot of head scratching…

  Take Care,

  Joe

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