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some help needed please with missing file problem
Hi
quite new to FCP and new to this forum so hello everyone (well to whoever reads this post)
I started a project on a friends system and then brought the project back home but messed up and didn’t copy render files etc from his scratch disk. I did get all the source movies and audio so I hope I just need to render again.
but problem is
I have this message popping up every 5 secs and its stopping me from moving on with re -rendering etc
“The movie file “sequence 2-FIN-0000000000002″ cannot be found…..”
How do I tell FCP to ignore this file and stop trying to search for it? I’m assuming this is just a render file or fade/transition file that can be recreated with another render.
cheers in advance for any answers guys
Simon
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8 Replies
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crikey this is getting very frustrating,
this message just keeps coming, every time I press cancel up it pops again, it barely gives me time to go to a menu.
I did manage to render so I have no red render bars at all, all the clips are there.
What’s FCP’s problem with this file, I don’t even need
I’m going to change scratch disks and delete prefs
Why does it insist on trying to find this file!!
Anybody?
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You’re on the right track.
When you open up the project, FCP tries to reconnect all of the files. Make sure during that process that you select that temp render file and click ‘skip file’. Then it shouldn’t bother you any more.good luck,
Todd at UCSB
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Hi Tod,
thanks for the reply but no joy
I got that far first off but the file its trying to find doesn’t even appear on the list.
tried deleting all prefs, changed scratch disks, tried copying another file to the same name and pointing to that but its greyed out
totally gazumped on this one
there must be a way of deleting the reference to that file within the project
I went to render manager and deleted all render files, re-saved project, opened it up again…and it still popped up again trying to find this damn file….nightmare
been at this for hours now
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Wow. It does sound awful. Welcome to the world of post-production! If it was easy, we’d train monkeys to do it.
It’s not making sense that FCP won’t show you the file, but it’s trying to locate it?you’ve covered most of the usually suspects by deleting pref and restarting.
If it was me, the next thing I’d try would be to create a new project, then ‘copy all’ from the sequence and paste into the ‘new sequence & new project’. Close your existing project and see if it still errors on you. You might want to add in a restart just to make sure.
Good Luck,
Todd at UCSB
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no joy with that either, I must be copying the problem over somehow
I’ll try and copy the first half of the sequence over then the second see if i can isolate the culprit
I can’t believe this is happening to be honest….ridiculous
it’s nearly 2AM here in UK, would be nice to get this fixed b4 bed…best make a coffee….ha haaa
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Nice One Todd, copying to a new Proj/Seq helped me to isolate the dodgy file
I found a file called “mad tunnel” on the timeline and in the browser that was causing this search. Everything fine after I deleted those files and re-imported them.
took a long long time to isloate the exact file as the popup comes up about 8 times, you hit stop, spinning ball, then cancel, more spinning ball x that by 8 just to check one file or move the playhead once
what an absolute PITA!!
My computer keyboard is still in one piece and there’s no holes in the walls so no harm done….lol
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Glad you were able to figure it out.
One of the best things you can learn is how to troubleshoot a problem and how to isolate different functions so you can eliminate what’s working and what’s not. While it may have taken way longer than you wanted, you were able to figure it out, so kudos to you.
Cheers,
Todd at UCSB
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Nice One Todd and cheers for the help dude…have fun 🙂
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