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2 problems
I have recently copied a fcp project from my partner’s computer onto my external hard drive so that I could edit the project on my home computer.
I used media manager copy and thought that i had copied the entire project and all clips, at least media manager made it appear so with the amounts at the top being equal.
I have connected my hard drive to my mac and opened the project.
I have two problems:
1st: when the project is loading “reading project” i get about 40 messages that say:
The movie file “EffectAA3169CC-F48#16EE9E.aiff” cannot be found. Without this file, the movie cannot play properly.
i am given a “cancel” or “search” option. The search option opens up my hard drive, and of course I can not manually find the files either.
The cancel option, just cancels the search and goes to the next file that is missing.
Like I said there are about 40 of these files in the process all starting “Effect” followed by a code of letter and numbers and ending with “.aiff”
any ideas on what these are and where I could tell my partner where to locate them and copy them so that I can “find” them after he sends them to me?
Second Problem:
If I cancel through the missing files and finally get the project loaded on my computer, everything seems to play normally in the viewer, but on the time line all the “scanned in” images, photos, text documents, etc show up as a checkered board image. If I click on the image in the timeline, it comes up as a checkered image in the editor window. Why is this happening? Are these files missing too?
To top it all off, if i play around with the project, after 2 or 3 minutes FCP crashes and quits.
any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Damon
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3 Replies
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I think the thing to do is redo the media mananger’s job…
Select all in the browser. Then open media manager, and don’t select to delete unused media.
Then in the bottom of the window, turn on the option to create a new project file, and save it to the same drive you’re moving the media with. This file will open after the copies are made and should be connected to the copied media all ready to go…
Somewhere along the line, you didn’t do the above, so you’re having to reconnect or missed some files.
Jerry
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“Then in the bottom of the window, turn on the option to create a new project file, and save it to the same drive you’re moving the media with.”
When I create a new project, i would like to move it to a different external hard drive, thus letting me take the hard drive to my own mac to work on the project.
Will the steps you have mentioned copy all of the necessary files? Or am I going to have the same problem again?
Also, when I made the initial copy the bars at the top, telling me the Original and Modified media were the same amount. Why is it that some of the files were not copied?
Is there some media that the media manager is not finding before it makes the copy or what?
Thanks
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You can save the project file to the same drive the copies are on so you can move it.
My guess is that when you used media manager last time, you didn’t select ALL in the browser first… so it copied all that you selected, but not all in the project file. That would result in what you’re experiencing now most likely.
It might be good to find those errant files to make sure you’re copying them. They are on that machine somewhere. Before you move the drive after the copies and new project file are made, check the project file you’ve created. It should open immediately after media manager has done it’s thing.
Jerry
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