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CRAZYNESS!
I had a sequence with a bunch of clips. It is all on a firewire drive.
I took it to another computer and edited some of it.
I brought it back to the original computer I was using.
I have a file for instance called 001.mov – I try to open it and it says “The movie 001.mov cannot be found. Without this file, the movie cannot play preoperly” – final cut and quicktime player say the same thing – ARGH – this is the case with about 50 critical files.
The file size is 500+ megs on each clip, so I know it is not a dependant file.
PLEASE HELP – ANYBODY!
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12 Replies
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Try relinking your material (force it offline and reconnect)?
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Which version of QT was on the other Mac that you used on the project?
They should be the same to avoid recognition problems.Cheers
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How do I do this? The re-connectimg thing?
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[joseph wilkins] “How do I do this? The re-connectimg thing?”
Ok, time to crack open your manual or use the FCP Help feature. It’s called Reconnect Media and it’s something you will need to use often in your FCP career.
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OK, I have taken the file back to the second mac and the first QT was Pro version 7.11 the second was 7.1.
BUT… now I cannot open the files on the second computer either. I am beginning to sweat bullets – I cannot re-shoot this!!
As far as re-connecting the media – I cannot even open the file to re-connect it – It wont play at all – not in QT, not in FCP.
please help
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Where these movies exported in anyway? How did you capture them?
Jeremy
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I captured them on p2 cards – I imported them inot FCP 5.1 using import – p2 footage. They came in fine. I played with them and edted them down, then I used media manager to trim them down to the parts of the footage I needed. I then had the good stuff edited only. I played with them in my timeline – all looked good. All FCP files and the footage (scratch and rendered files) were all on an external firewire drive. I quit FCP and ejected the drive – took it to my laptop at home where I edited it some more. Then brought it back to my g5 at work and the problems started. I cannot see any of the clips – but again – they are large files so there is date there!
PLease – anything you can suggest would be appreciated.
Thanks
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Do you still have access to the original MXFs? If so, you should be able to reimport. By the way, in FCP. 5.1.2 (free update), you can set ins and outs before you import and bring in only the takes you want.
Jeremy
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No, I formatted the P2 cards… Argh!
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Wow. Next time, Joe, the MXF files are like your tape masters. Do not throw those away. Drives are cheap, buy more, back up…twice even.
Now that i got that out of the way. I have no idea what to tell you. Are you sure you didn’t export reference files along the way somewhere? Do you have access to the media before you media managed it or have you thrown away all of your media?
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