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Deleted Render Files and “Media Offline”
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“When you choose THOSE files, FCP starts looking for RENDER files?”
Yes.
“It shouldn’t. Not unless you imported RENDER files as MEDIA files, like Walter mentioned.”
No, didn’t do that.
“In the timeline… when you scrub thru the sequence, can you SEE something on the Canvas? ”
All I see in the Canvas is the red background with “Media Offline” in white text. I also see the same red background/white text in the timeline.
“You can try to trash preferences, then relaunch FCP, then try again.”
I haven’t tried that yet. I did try trashing the thumbnail cache but that didn’t work.
“https://www.digitalrebellion.com get PREFERENCE MANAGER…free…and it trashes prefs for you. ”
Cool I will try that.
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Just to throw this out there…
Typically when I need to reconnect files, it will show up with an entire list of things that “no longer exist.” Sometimes instead of just my media files, it will also show render files (if I’ve deleted them.) Until I tell fcp to skip those render files, because I’m not looking for them, I can’t even tell fcp to look for my media files. So have you tried that?
You can skip a file one by one or even skip a directory. So skip any files that are render files and see if you can then search for the actual media files.
This is all I can suggest past trashing your prefs. Worth a shot.
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Thanks Josh for writing, yes I did the same thing but all it was looking for were the render files despite the fact that the media files had the red slash through them and so should have needed reconnecting as well.
I trashed both FCP preferences and the thumbnail cache with no success
I never did find a reason why this is happening or a workaround except for doing a batch import of the clips. It was a pain which shouldn’t have been necessary but it did work.
Obviously something went very very haywire with this project.
In a few days I will probably post a question about how to package together all the resources for a project once it is all done. I know the Media Manager can do this but I don’t know what the best practices are for using it. By the way, I am shocked how many external firewire and USB drives are cluttering my desk….I’m shooting 720p video and its eating through drives like nobody’s business! 🙂
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[Steve Crow] “By the way, I am shocked how many external firewire and USB drives are cluttering my desk….I’m shooting 720p video and its eating through drives like nobody’s business! :-)”
If you’re editing media off of USB drives it’s no wonder things have gone haywire.
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No this project was on a firewire drive however I have worked on lots of video projects using USB 2.0 devices and haven’t run into problems…of course faster is better and I would prefer firewire but in a pinch….
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This sounds kinda like a problem I had a while back. Before I understood that I had to use the render manager to delete renders properly, I was trying to free up some space on my media drive and deleted a bunch of renders from old projects directly in Finder. Well, I also deleted a few that I thought I didn’t need anymore from a project for a national spot that needs reworking from time to time.
The next time I opened that spots project, it had a dialog for trying to “find movie data…” for a couple of specific render files. These were the ones I deleted directly inside finder, because I didn’t use the shots in the final and fiigured I didn’t need the renders anymore at the time. It would keep looking for them and never find them. Even if I opened a completely different project. It would give me the option to search or them but never to forget them. A completely different kind of dialog box from the usual “media offline” dialog.
Long story short, after Apple support, the Cow, and many other things, I deleted the info in thumbnail cache and the problem went away. Until I had to open that project again the other day 🙂 Now, every time I have to work on that project, I do what I have to do and then close FCP and delete the thumbnail cache so I’m straight next time I open FCP. Figuring that partticular project has a quirk in it now but I can live with it as it’s a big client.
Just offering that as a look at a quirk that no one has ever been able to solve and why you should always do things the proper way. Take care.
(written on my iPhone…please excuse typos)
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Wow Tony, first of all I am impressed you wrote all that on your iPhone!
Yes certain elements of your story match mine because I also used the Finder to delete Render files that I thought I didn’t need any longer…I will try from now on only using the Render Manager to do this. I guess it explains why the project was looking for render files and not video files when it wanted to reconnect some missing media.
Steve
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