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can’t reconnect media (copied from another project)
hey guys,
i’m working on a sport show about horse racing and i have loads of CG and graphics and tables to apply on the races !so to ease up the task i opened 2 projects one for the editing of the races and the other one just to place the graphics and lower thirds and the tables on sequences to be used later on the edited media ( copy paste)!
so i needed to move the projects to another editing suite and i was able to reconnect the media perfectly in both projects , but the problem is that all the GFX and lower thirds and tables that are copied from the GFX project to the media project still ”media offline” …. is there a way that i can reconnect these copied GFX without having to go and reconnect them one by one on each sequence cuz this would take forever !
NB: both projects have the same settings and both editing suites has FCP 7!
thanks in advance !
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Thanks Dave for your reply , but i did that and i am sure that i have all the graphics on the new machine , cuz as i said , the graphics got reconnected on the GFX project on the new machine but the parts that i copied for the edited sequences arent reconnected ! can the problem be that when reconnecting media it only applies to the media in the original project, but i doesn’t apply on the copied items to another projects ?
thanks again!
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Yepp your perfectly right!which means there is no easy way to restore it but to go through it sequence by sequence and reconnect it to the new location…well, then i guess i have a long night of searching for needles in the haystack … i better get started on it ! … its just that i was hoping for a some kind of a miracle :)! Cheers
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nop , i just copied from the GFX sequences which are in project A and past to the media sequence in project B! i didn’t bring the bin of the GFX into the media project (project B) , i guess thats my fault ! cuz when i moved both project to the new machine what i assumed that the copied GFX will be related to their GFX project wherever its placed , and not to the original media , so when i reconnected the GFX project on the new machine it will automatically reconnect the copied GFX as well … bass now i discovered that it was a dumb logic :S
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Why not select all in your timeline, right click and choose “reconnect media” then when the dialogue box pops up, deselect the “online” tab leaving only the offline files. From there you can hit “search” and fcp should find the files.
Jeremy
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its not working Jeremy , when i do it , it gives me the system error bump , while opening all the media files all greyed , with nothing highlighted to select!
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What’s a system error bump?
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i mean that sound that you get when the OS is not able to perform a task either because if its not possible or if there is an error !
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What are the graphics made up of?
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the GFX are diffrent kinds of lower thirds with specific color for each jockey , stings , alpha transition , score boards … the moving elements are quicktime files with an animation codecs and the rest are just PSD files !
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