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FCP is not using my render files
Hi, I’m using FCP 7 and everytime I open an old project I have to render the entire timeline and reconnect media files. Even after I’ve set my System Settings and reconnected all the media, i still have to render. All of my old render files are there, but FCP does not use them. Is there a way to get FCP to connect these files so I don’t have to re-render an hour of footage? Thanks in advance!
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8 Replies
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Is it SmoothCammed footage by any chance?
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None of the footage is SmoothCammed. A lot of the footage was Optical Flowed in Motion.
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[Steve Cornell] “A lot of the footage was Optical Flowed in Motion.”
So does that mean you have motion projects in there? Why do the clips needs to be rendered?
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They are movie files that were sent to motion. But even the files that weren’t sent to motion need to be re-rendered. The story is: It’s a project that grew too large for my disc space(let’s call this drive 1), so I backed it up on my external drive and an other internal drive (drive 2). When I got a bigger drive 1, I moved the project from drive 2 back to drive 1. After this, when I opened the project on drive 1, I had to reconnect the media. I checked the Render Files folder and everything was there, but I could find a way to reconnect the render files. I hope this makes sense and Thank you for your help!
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[Steve Cornell] “but I could find a way to reconnect the render files.”
Unfortunately, there’s no way to reconnect render files like that. You can use the ‘Move’ option in the Media Manager and that will save your render files, otherwise, you will have to re-render.
Jeremy
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Got it, I’ll remember that next time. Also, going through my project I noticed that a couple motion files got corrupted, so everytime I try to render them, FCP crashes. In the timeline, the thumbnail shows a red/white checked background. Its the same in the finder as well, the file name is the same, but the media is missing and only the red/white checked background appears. How would these files get corrupted? Is there a way to reconnect them? Thank you for your help!
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What happens if you try and open that project in motion? Sounds like you need to reconnect the media there too.
I recommend not using Motion projects in your FCP timeline. What you can do, is still send the file from your timeline to Motion, but then choose NOT to embed Motion content. You can then work in Motion, render out a QT movie, then replace that movie in your timeline.
It’s causes less problems, in my experience anyway.
Jeremy
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When I try to open the clip, motion crashes. I took your advice an made the motion clips QT movie and it worked perfectly! I truly appreciate your help!
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