FCP X media offline

[Noah Kadner]

Have you tried dragging the clips from your hard drive back into the Event they *should* be in. That often does the trick.

Noah

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[Rick Lang]

Using the Finder, can you examine the Event folder and look at the last modified date to see if anything else has changed? If so, that may be why FCP X is not recognizing it. Look at the last modified date on the actual folder too. Finder’s Get Info will tell you that.

Rick Lang

iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB

[Rick Lang]

As Noah suggests, you should also be able to Import Files and point to the media and it will re-establish the links without actually physically moving anything. Dragging is quick but I feel safer using the menus.

Rick Lang

iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB

[Jacob Kerns]

I had the same problem the only solution that worked for me was dragging FCPX itself into the trash. (thinking that’s where it should installed by default) I reinstalled and it fixed for awhile but it was back again last-night. Now that is seems to be working again I get a green solid view while scrubbing the timeline or whatever its called so I’ve giving up fighting with it and realized this its not worth wasting time with it anymore!

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[Boris Jansch]

If I drag or import the media clips back into the event they apear next to the offline clips but I’m not sure what to do next.

Should I delete the offline clips in the hope that the reimported versions will then link to the offline clips in the Project? bit scary!

I haven’t added or taken anything away from the contents of the event folder. The only thing I have done since completing the cut is that I had a look at those same prores clips in Premiere Pro, but like I said, I ditched that programme along with associated documents.

Hmmm…

Many thanks,

Boris J.

[Boris Jansch]

What I didn’t mention was that the source media is in the FCP7 capture scratch and so the Event folder just has the short cut pointer.

Many thanks,

Boris J.

[Rick Lang]

[Boris Jansch] “If I drag or import the media clips back into the event they apear next to the offline clips but I’m not sure what to do next.”

Not what i expected. May be a bug if the actual media files have not been updated by Premiere Pro and the Event is online but it thinks the contents are offline. Did you check the last modified date on the files in the FCP 7 bin?

Presumably you did not copy the media when you imported it so the media is still in the FCP 7 bin. So now the problem is how to remove those pesky offline references.

[Boris Jansch] “Should I delete the offline clips in the hope that the reimported versions will then link to the offline clips in the Project?”

By deleting you mean to Move to the Trash. I wouldn’t do that without a backup using the Finder of the related content in the FCP 7 bin. If it’s backed up, you might try one only to see if the linked files are actually physically removed from the FCP 7 bin. Considering it’s telling you it’s offline, it might not do anything as it thinks it can’t access the media. Too bad there does not seem to be a way to reconnect your media—you could easily do that in Final Cut Express HD!

Rick Lang

iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB

[Boris Jansch]

Please anyone!!! Need to deliver this film tomorrow.

Surely there’s a way to relink the clips in my Project??

The clips in the Event folder look offline although the media is there in the capture scratch of FCP7.

The meta data obviously got changed when I opened the source clips with Premiere.

Should I ditch the thumbnail cache from the FCPX relevant event folder?

Many thanks,

Boris J.

[Boris Jansch]

Well I guess it serves me right for buying version 1.0.

I think the only way to resolve it is by reimporting the suposed offline media and then reinserting the clips manually by reading the timecode info of the suposed offline project clips in the inspector.

Bottom!!!!

Many thanks,

Boris J.

[Rick Lang]

But your experience is a benefit to others as I think at least at this time we understand if you are going to try other NLEs, you want to work with a copy of the media rather than anything that FCP X has touched.

I don’t know how FCP X is tracking the media using the metadata but it’s not based on Finder’s files. It may well be recording when it last touched the media file or when it last updated the media file and if it finds a later date than what it has stored in its relational database, it considers it offline. After all it has no way of knowing if important content has changed or not unless the timestamps are a match.

You might provide feedback to Apple that the Event is not connecting the clips as you would have expected; just mention the other details here re FCP 7 bin and Premiere Pro in case it helps them resolve the issue if it is a bug. Hopefully a future update will include the ability manually to reconnect media as their other software allows.

Rick Lang

iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB