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Big archiving mistake, need help to fix it!
Hi guys,
Let’s start off by stating that I’m a complete dumbass. What happend is this: I was working in between two projects at the same time on the same machine. Lets call them project X and project Y.
What probably happened is that I forgot to change my system settings when I was working in project X and switching to project Y. I then probably imported footage in for project Y with the system settings still on project X! When I ran out of space a couple of weeks ago I deleted (without backing up) project X that was finished.
Now I am trying to open project Y after not have worked on it for a couple of weeks and it is missing a lot of files (witch I offcourse deleted allong with project X by mistake)!
Now when I open the project it says: “Unable to find ….file. Movie will not play properly without.” And I can choose search or cancel.
I still have the raw footage on tape, but there is absolutly no time to re-edit everything. Is there a way to get the raw footage in again and open the file correctly?I really hope somebody can help me. I know it was a dumb mistake but it could possibly ruin the entire project!
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The RAW footage? Yes, simply look at the clips in the Browser that have the red slash thru them and recapture or re-import (with tapeless you can also use the BATCH CAPTURE option).
But your issue is that you have Quicktime reference movies in your project and the media included in those REF movies is gone. Never ever ever import QT reference movies into FCP for use in a project. They are meant for quick ways to export for compressor. If a small render file goes missing, as will happen when it is no longer referenced, then the REF movie will not play and is useless. And a re-render won’t make it work again, because it is referencing a SPECIFIC render file.
Shane
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Willem
Is there a way to get the raw footage in again and open the file correctly?You dont have to re-edit if you can recapture. I am assuming you capturded the footage with Timecode from a camera/deck that can be controlled for captureing by final cut. If so, follow the process in the manual for recpaturing.
If you did not capture with timecode, then you are in for a lot of recapturing and eye matching.
BTW, go to a locl computer store, buy a western digital 1 tB drive (can be usb) and once you have finished capturing your footage, make a copy of the footage folder to that drive. then shut the drive off and put it on the shelf. Next time you delete anyhting (or the media drives die, or the footage gets lost or whatever) take the 1tb drive off the shelf, and re-copy the media onto your media drives and BAM back in business!
hope this helps
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Thank you so much for your help guys! In the end it wasn’t such a big problem as I thought it to be. Thank god I imported it with timecode and only the raw captured footage was deleted, which could easily be re-captured and reconnected in the sequence.
I might be mistaken Shane, but I don’t think I used QT reference files in my timeline. I didn’t have any issues rerendering or stuff like that, it was just that I deleted the capture scratch with the original files in them. I guess that would leave only reference material in my sequence from those files indeed, but they have been replaced by the originals again now, wouldn’t they?
Thanks again both for your quick help!
Willem Nout
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