FCP 5.0 and the Media Mangler

[John Treffer]

Okay, it also doesn’t work on DV material.

This is abit annoying to me, because I have to clean my harddisk. Any suggestions on a workarround, other than reinstalling FCP 4.5?

[Wayne Franklin]

Assuming you are working with timecoded material and a controllable device, my best suggestion is to use media manager to create offline material in a new project, then batch digitize the new clips. You’ll want to delete unused material in the new offline project, of course, and don’t include outside affiliate clips. If you have enough room, you can load the media for the new project, check it for accuracy, then delete your old media files.

My assumption is that while certain known bugs were fixed in Media Manager, new ones have been created in the process.

Good luck.

[John Treffer]

It is only for backup purpose. I don’t fully trust mini-DV tape as a backup medium so I normally use the Media Manager to gather the clips I use and burn it on DVD before I trash the media from my harddisk. (it is a short film, so this 2 or 3 DVDs normally)

Anyhow, thanks for the advice, maybe I will trash it anyhow because I want to install tiger cleanly and than reinstall FCP5. I can always recapture and mediamanage when this issue is fixed.

[Nick Meyers]

[john] “Okay, it also doesn’t work on DV material.

This is abit annoying to me, because I have to clean my harddisk. Any suggestions on a workarround, other than reinstalling FCP 4.5?”

ok, if it’s not working on DV material, then something is broken.

DV works for me.

try trashing your prefs.

https://www.lafcpug.org/trashing_fcp_prefs.html

nick

[John Treffer]

Wow, trashing the prefs worked, also for HDV. I only installed FCP5 yesterday, but still. Thank nick

@Wayne
I am sorry I didn’t read your post carefully, about MM to an offline project, saw it just after my post. Anyhow, did you try deleting the prefs? Less than 24 hours after installing it still resolved my MM problems!