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FCP Version 6.0.1 media relinking problems
Hi Guys,
I’m working on a project on FCP version 6.0.1, however the first 2 weeks of digitising were done on laptops (MacBook Pros)with version 5.1.4. before being moved, annoyingly, onto laptops with version 6.0.1. The digitising projects were subsequently moved from the laptops onto Powermacs running 6.0.1. We moved the media onto the drives supplied by the Post facility, and used a mixture of dragging from one drive to the other, and also used the Media tool. We have now come to a point where the clips will only relink one at a time. All of the offline clips will appear in the top half of the relink tool, when you search it will find the top clip, but when you choose that clip on the drive, it appears on its own in the bottom section of the relink tool, and all of the clips in the top section disappear. Please help, as the prospect of relinking the project clip by clip will make me lose the will to live. Thanks
PS. Within the re-connect window I have ticked the ‘Reconnect all files in Relative Path’ -
8 Replies
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I had the same experience recently. Could not find a work around. Luckily I only had about 30 clips to relink.
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This is a well known and well documented bug that Apple engineers have claimed they cannot reproduce.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY
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I can reproduce it for them all day, if they’d like. I have run into this issue on our G5 and Mac Pro, so I know without a doubt that its a bug.
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Hey guys,
So is this a bug you have found to be associated with the 6.0.1 update only? I am just now researching to see what problems people have encountered updating from FCP 6, and will probably hold off until this one is fixed. Sounds freakin’ irritating. Currently running 6.0 and have not run into this problem yet.
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I have only seen this bug in version 6.0.1 but have spoken to people who have seen it on version 5.1.4 also. It is very annoying
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The problem is because you captured with separate versions of the application, and they use different naming conventions for the suffix. Older material uses no suffix, the current version does. Linking to material captured with different versions of the application can produce this problem because the file names are not recognized properly.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop” -
This sounds like a bug to me. If this is what is happening, why did Apple change this in the first place? They had to know this would cause some problems. Everyone here has had to change (re-edit) an older program at some time.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
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There were requests to have media captured with the suffix displayed as it helped working with other applications which weren’t recognizing the FCP captured files properly. The new behavior conforms to QuickTime usage.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop”
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