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Clips Are Acting Very Strange!
Has anyone heard of this problem?
I opened up my project in FCP 5 which contains maybe 50 sequences in it, each one containing one to ten 30 sec pieces. All of a sudden this time on random clips, the audio being played is from a completely different clip from a different timeline. It’s the same with the video; I’ll scrub through the clip, then all of a sudden it starts showing a piece of a different clip.
With the video I can “refresh” it back to normal by scolling the edge towards the other edge, shortening it, then moving it back again to it’s original length. With the audio I have to re-overite it from the master file. I went through and corrected each clip, saved it, then the next day they were messed up again.
The only thing I can think of that might have caused this was I have just recently deleted almost 1TB of diskspace from the RAID I am using. I deleting a lot of FCP files, escpecially the render files. Are there any files I could have deleted which would cause this?
Thanks to anyone with input!
Jeff
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5 Replies
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Hi, maybe someone familiar with this bug has a more specific answer, but I would delete any remaining render files now if you did not get them all. I’ve had render file linking problems in the past, and all the disk file changes you made recently could have messed up FCP linking, and may have messed with the filesystem a bit too.
Delete the render folders (for these timelines) living anywhere on all your disks. Then go into FCP’s render manager and delete any remaining render files. Then repair your disks. It is possible the RAID file system got a little wonky when you deleted all those files. Do you have Diskwarrior? Keep runing it until no more “red”, you get all “green”.
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[BRussell] “but I would delete any remaining render files now if you did not get them all.”
Yes, this should fix it. Since FCP has a pretty deplorable database/media tracking system that can’t keep track of things very well, it can often times get confused.
It tends to happen a lot on sequences that are copy/pasted into other sequences. SInce FCP names it’s render files after whatever the sequence is called, it can get easily tripped up.
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Have you tried trashing your preference files?
Also that is lot of sequences for one project, they are not all open are they?
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Yeah, happens to us every so often. Deleting all the render files with the render manager always seems to fix it.
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Thanks for the suggestion! I deleted the reder files in the render manager and ran Disk Warrior. I haven’t gone through every clip yet, but the ones with problem before are back to normal.
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