• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Sequence Missing

  Posted by David Fortin on June 17, 2011 at 10:13 am

  Finished up editing last night and saved the FCP project. Booted up this morning and opened FCP project.

  The sequence I was editing in is not there.

  I opened and checked all the sequences in the sequences folder, but the video I was working on is not one of the sequences.

  Has anyone ever heard of this?

  And… I had unhooked my ESATA Time Machine HD 2 days ago, to use my ESTA blu ray recorder. So I went to check a Time Machine saved file from yesterday to find out I don’t have any.

  Hopefully I’m missing something very basic here.
  Thanks for any ideas on where my sequence went.

  David

  John Sheats replied 14 years, 6 months ago 8 Members · 13 Replies
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  Michael Gissing

  June 17, 2011 at 10:18 am

  Did you do a spotlight check of your drives to see if the project file had been written to another drive. Have you checked your autosave vault to get the last autosave version?
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  David Fortin

  June 17, 2011 at 10:27 am

  Michael,

  Thanks for the ideas. 2 Things I didn’t do.

  Searched spotlight – file wasn’t saved elsewhere.
  Autosave was off.

  Still trying to figure out how the sequence is missing. I opened up the project this morning and there was no Canvas or Timeline Showing. How else, besides DELETING the Sequence, can the sequence be deleted?

  Has anyone ever heard of this?

  David
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  Chris Tompkins

  June 17, 2011 at 10:29 am

  Always good to have auto save on.

  Chris Tompkins
  Video Atlanta LLC
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  David Fortin

  June 17, 2011 at 10:37 am

  Hindsight is 20/20.

  I still wonder how the sequence was deleted?
  I only had that one sequence I was working on, open in the timeline.

  If I didn’t physically hit the delete button ???
  (trying to replay my last actions last night, but I don’t remember anything…. and NO, I wasn’t celebrating the Bruins Stanley Cup win)

  Is there another way ???

  David
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  Rick Moore

  June 17, 2011 at 11:36 am

  That does sound strange.
  I’ve found myself accidentally saving versions of a project in different places without even knowing it.
  I agree that the spotlight or finder search to locate the most recent project would be my first option.
  It you find it really is not there and has been deleted somehow then please post back as that would not be very good at all.

  Rick
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  Dan Monro

  June 17, 2011 at 1:50 pm

  Shot in the dark: did Final Cut crash at some point, and you hit “re-open”? If so, maybe you were working in a project named slightly differently, like “name_of_Project_061611-142750” or some such. This happens when you’re using auto-save, which you’re not.

  I guess it would have come up in your spotlight search. But worth a look…

  Last ditch, I guess I’d open any unidentifiable FCP projects you can find in the system, in case you inadvertently re-named it while saving it.

  Good luck,
  D

  Dan Monro
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  Paul Jay

  June 17, 2011 at 2:02 pm

  AutoSave Off…
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  David Fortin

  June 17, 2011 at 2:04 pm

  PROJECT IS NOT THE PROBLEM. It is NOT missing.

  I have the project. But inside the project, the SEQUENCE I was working on in the Timeline, is NOT there.

  So, when I came back this morning. The PROJECT was there. But when it opened, there was NO Canvas, and No Timeline. Last night, when I was working I only had that 1 SEQUENCE open. But somehow, it got deleted from the project.

  I can’t figure out how I deleted it. If it was the only Sequence open at the time, and I had deleted it, I think it would disappear from the TimeLine and I would have noticed that.

  I also have 2 different versions of the Project saved, 20 minutes apart. And they BOTH are missing the Sequence.

  The only thing I can figure is I had the Sequence highlighted, switched to Motion, somehow hit delete and it did the delete action in FCP instead of Motion.

  But when I closed up last night, I can’t imagine not seeing that the Sequence wasn’t in the timeline.

  I have everything in my Project EXCEPT the SEQUENCE. Sequences from other videos and all the NESTS are in my Sequence Folder Bin, but not the Sequence I was working on. I have the Project saved under a different name 2 days ago, but I am losing 2 days of work.

  Fortunately, I had done quite a bit of Motion Graphics work. Since that was done in Motion, I have all those completed sections.

  I’ve moved on. Considering myself lucky it wasn’t a computer failure, HD failure, loss of all my original media, etc., etc.

  Starting to re-edit the video and hoping to learn from my mistake of not having the Time Machine HD hooked up, and not having AutoSave active.

  If anyone has any idea about how the SEQUENCE could disappear, I’d be interested in hearing it.

  Thanks again.

  David
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  David Fortin

  June 17, 2011 at 2:08 pm

  Good thoughts. But no crash. See my comments 2 posts above.
  It took a while to type, so they appear before these last 2 came in.

  I have the PROJECT. But the SEQUENCE is missing within the PROJECT.

  Thanks for all the input.

  David
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  John Pale

  June 17, 2011 at 2:13 pm

  Either you accidentally hit delete with the sequence selected or you had 2 projects open and the sequence is in the other one.

  Anyway, I can’t think of a reason why you would turn off Autosave…so make sure that stays on.

  FCP has auto save, the OS has Time Machine…. Turn them both off and you are on your own.

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