Capture issue & Reconnect issue FCP6

[Kevin Monahan]

Capture Now? Or log and batch capturing as a single clip?

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[David Roth weiss]

[Kevin Monahan] “Capture Now? Or log and batch capturing as a single clip?”

Kevin,

Seems to be confined to log and batch capturing when timecode breaks are encountered.

David

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

[Steven Gonzales]

I saw this problem also when testing batch list export and reimport.

I dragged a bunch existing files in to final cut 6.

Then I exported a batch list, and brought that in another project. When I went to reconnect the clips, they would only reconnect one at a time.

However, last week I was moving clips around on another system, and the reconnect was working with FCP 6 in the relative path.

So apparently it’s an issue, but not in all situations.

[David Roth weiss]

[Steven Gonzales] “I saw this problem also when testing batch list export and reimport.”

It can be excruciating. In my case it was like 25 files, and bad enough, but in a case with boat loads of files it would be a horrible waste of time. I’m going to report it.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

[Herb Sevush]

David –

I’m having the same issue with reconnecting media files and it has nothing to do with capturing across timeliness. This is media that has been moved from one drive to another and now I have to recapture 1 files at a time – and this is a job with about 60 files. excruciating.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions

[David Roth weiss]

Howdy Herb,

I reported this to Apple as an official bug in FCP 6. Its my first offical bug report ever. I would suggest that you report as well, as your bug is related, but different.

David

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

[Tom Matthies]

This is an interesting issue.
About two weeks ago, I installed my copy of FCP 5 on my Powerbook to enable me to continue working on a project while on the road. I copied my files from my desktop machine to a small Firewire drive. and copied the project file to the PB with a jumpdrive. When I went to reconnect the media, I ran into the same problem…only this was with FCP5. There is a thread a few weeks ago about the problem but it sounds exactly like the above problem. I had to reconnect the files one at a time. I had around 350 clips…one at a time was not an option. I ended up reinstalling FCP and everyting worked just fine after that.
Maybe something else has changed somewhere and it’s not just a problem with FCP6?
Tom

[Joe Murray]

Having the same problem here, and my media wasn’t even moved from one drive to another. There are four clips out of about 25 clips that consistently don’t reconnect properly, and I have to reconnect each one individually, as described above. The project work fine in 5.1.4…all I’ve done is install FCS2, on a completely separate drive, make a copy of the project and open it up. There were no timecode breaks with this material.

Joe Murray

[Jim Bruce]

Hi David,

Just curious whether you have heard anything new about the reconnect issues in FCP 6.

I am just about to start a project with FCP 6 that will involve 2 sets of the same media – one in LA – one in Ireland – emailing projects back and forth in order to see each other’s work…

This is a large documentary so the idea of having to reconnect file by file to link someone else’s project to my media is terrifying…

Any news?

Any reply from Apple?

Workarounds?

Keep me posted.

Cheers,

Jim

[David Roth weiss]

I’m not supposed to say anything.