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Reconnecting Media one file at a time?
Hi,
I’m working on a project that contains media on several different drives. In order to free up room on Drive 1, I had to move all of my sound effects to Drive 2, and delete these sounds from Drive 1. I did this expecting that FCP would ask me to reconnect these clips when I re-opened my project.
However, FCP didn’t ask me to reconnect these clips. When I highlight all the disconnected media and choose file -> reconnect media, the offline files don’t show up in the reconnect files window. Strange…
So what I end up having to do is reconnect each clip one by one.
Does anybody know of a good work around, so all of the clips can be reconnected at once? In the future, is there a better way to move media from one drive to another?
Thanks!
Dave
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6 Replies
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Select all of the clips that you’re having to reconnect and select take offline. Select them all again and select connect media, all files in relative path. Search to new location on drive. Reconnect. It should work for you.
You can always use FCP media manager to copy files to a new location. Check it out; it’s pretty slick.
Josh
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Hi Josh, thanks for your reply.
I tried what you suggested (I chose Make Offline, then selected “leave media files on the disk”). Then when I tried to reconnect the clips, under Offline files it doesn’t include the list of clips that I’m trying to reconnect. It just says Unspecified path.
When I try to point to the file directory, I get an error tone, and the window disappears…
Very odd….if you had any more ideas they would be much appreciated.
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Do you have reel numbers on all of you reels?
Do your reel numbers have any illegal characters such as /!@#$%&?
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
EPK Colorist – UP IN THE AIR – nominated for six academy awards
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.
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Nope, I don’t have any characters like that on my reels or bins…
However there is the occasional sound file with a pound symbol # in its title… -
[David Green] “there is the occasional sound file with a pound symbol # in its title… “
I can’t say with certainty that’s the source of your problems, but I can tell you that it can be the source of many similar problems.
I would advise that you look in the FCP under Illegal characters and get in the habit of not using them as soon as possible.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
EPK Colorist – UP IN THE AIR – nominated for six academy awards
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.
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Aside from the illegal characters that David points out as a possible problem (and not being able to see exactly what you’re seeing; I suppose for future consideration since you’ve probably done the one by one reconnection by now), I think that it’s possibly a permissions issue, name change, or instability in the drive’s connection. I’d start there. Occasionally, I’ve just needed to clean my preferences, at others I’ve duplicated the project file itself and reconnected using the fresh copy. Sounds weird, I know, but I’ve seen stranger things; something strange just gone bad in the project that duplicating seems to be able to fix. Then just check read/write permissions on project files, copied media files, drive/folder permissions and accessibility. Then there is, of course, naming of copied files, just making sure they match. Also, if you’ve sub-clipped in the edit project making sure that you’re reconnecting the parent file–possibly what David is mentioning in the reel-ID data. Possibly why FCP isn’t giving you you’re expected clip list to reconnect with because it’s looking for the parent file. Not sure if that’s what is happening, but some ideas for possible (and hopefully not appearing) similar problems.
Hope everything worked out for you.
Josh
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