big project – lost master clip relationship for every clip

[Ron Priest]

You know I was having this problem a while back and was monitoring this thread, and another thread on the same subject over at at the Apple Forums and no one seemed to have an answer. Well this is not a command I use often, so I suppose it’s been a long time since I needed to “Reveal the Master Clip” but I today I needed to do just that, “Shift F” to reveal the master clip, where the playhead was setting. When I did, I once again got that same old warning “The clip’s master clip is not present. Would you like to add a master clip to the Browser?”

Well I’m like… bull, the clip is setting right there in my browser, what do you mean you can’t find it? How stupid it that? So I decided to select “Y” for FCP to create me a master clip, I wanted to see what it would create! So I did and it created a color Matte.

Well after investigating I noticed that it was creating a color Matte because I actually had a color matte in track 1 of my timeline where the playhead was setting. I have 2 video tracks, track one is a bunch of color matte’s I used for timing a quick cutting sequence, and the actual clips that I’m using are being placed onto track 2. So I turned off the auto select light (switch) for track 1 and now it can locate the master clip. So I suppose it uses the same rules as copying a clip. It will look for the master clip of the lowest track that has it’s auto select turned on.

You would think it would work the opposite way huh,? You would think it would look for the clip on the highest track. An easy short cut key to use is option click on the auto select switch of the track which you want to do the search. It will then turn on that select switch, while turning off all other track select switches. Then simply do your “Shift F” to find your master clip on that track, then when your done, option click that track select switch again to turn it and all of the other tracks back on.

Actually though, the easiest and fastest thing to do is to simply insure the clip is selected in the timeline, then the “Shift F” will work as expected no matter what track select switches are on or off.

Ron Priest
Videographer
Louisville, KY

[Jeffrey Di lullo]

I am having a similar problem. Have you found a solution? In the FCP manual it states that under the hood every master clip has a unique identifying number assigned to it. I wonder if this is some how being disturbed.

Jeffrey Di Lullo
Jeffedits.com

[Caleb Alexander slain]

No solution yet?

I’m editing a docu-reality TV Show and there’s about 160 hours of footage open at all times (I literally operate with 4 browsers open), so Shift-F is a MUST in my workflow.

I know WHY it’s happening: every clip on the timeline “knows” where it’s master file is in the browser, but if you move that Masterclip to another browser folder, you’re permanently effed.

This is really frustrating for a large project like mine (and many others as it seems). This would be a GREAT problem to receive a patch for…

Any news?

( Slain )

[Jeffrey Di lullo]

One thing that I noticed is if I bring in a bin from another workstation and pull shots from that bin into the viewer and then edit them into my working sequence I don’t get the Master clip error. I do get the error If I bring those same shot in from the same project with the only difference being that I had my assistant string out the shots in a select reel (sequence) and I pull from that.

Now this isn’t a great work around because there are plenty of times that I want to pull from an already assembled sequence.

The saga continues.

Jeffrey Di Lullo
Jeffedits.com

[Jeffrey Di lullo]

This has now stopped working. It appears that all new clips that have come in are exhibiting the “no master clip” nonsense. I am ready to go back to avid. 🙁

Jeffrey Di Lullo
Jeffedits.com

[Thanos Papadopoulos]

In that case you can press Cmd-F in the browser window and then type the name of clip that you want to find. Then click find all or find next and the master clip will be reveled in the browser’s window.

[Jeffrey Di lullo]

You can…but the the the find dialog takes 4 or 5x’s longer.

Jeffrey Di Lullo
jeffedits.com

[Thomas Martin]

Hi, I just encountered this problem. It seems that there is another thread on CC covering same topic but also without a solution:

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/945437

Issue: Loading a Master Clip into the Viewer and pressing Shift+F fails to locate the Master Clip that was just loaded. FCP thinks that the master clip is not present.

Copying the clips to a new project seems to restore the Viewer to Master Clip link but does not restore the Master Clip to Affiliate Clip link.

Can anyone with this issue replicate my experience? It feels like this might mean my project is corrupt. I am new to FCP so is there a step I am missing in trouble shooting this?

Notes: Restarting FCP had no effect. Saving Project As had no effect.
Using FCP 7.0

-TJ

[Kishan Shrikanth]

Dear Thomas and All,

I am a professional editor and work on Final Cut Pro 7.0.3 (currently)
I use Final Cut since I was 7 years old and currently I am 16.
I am editing a feature film shot on 16mm film in Final Cut.
I had the entire film on a single timeline and recently a few days back experienced a problem, which you have mentioned as well. When I hit Shift + F on a clip, it asks to create a master clip and says that the master clip is missing.
This freaked me out a lot as I was used to this feature and it was a big pain.

Solution: What you can really do is, create a New Project and copy all the bins (copy only those you frequently use, otherwise, don’t copy them into the New Untitled Project but into another one and save it as ‘unused sequences and media’ this will make your Final Cut run faster) and after you’re done, copy the sequence you are working on separately into the New Project and then, close the old Project and all other projects. With just the newly created project open, now open your sequence(s) and voila! There you go! It works!! Wondering how! Don’t! Go ahead and enjoy your work!

System Specs:
Apple Mac Pro
2×2.93gHz 6-core (westmere) (12 cores)
32gb RAM
2gb Graphic Memory

[Ahsan Andrian]

try this
create XML for the whole project. make sure nothing is selected, create xml. close the project, create new project, then import the XML.
it works for me.