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FCP3 has trouble finding audio files
I restored some quicktime files I had from a couple years ago. FCP can’t seem to remember where the audio files are, even though I place them right there inside the audio capture scratch folder. The audio capture scratch folder could be inside a project sub-folder or it could be just the firewire drive’s generic “audio capture scratch” folder. Even when I have found the files and can work with them on the timeline, if I exit FCP and relaunch, it has to do a big, time-consuming search for the audio files (AIFFs) associated with the video quicktime files.
I don’t understand this. Why would FCP “forget” where the audio files are located and have to search them down everytime? Is it somehow looking for the resource in the wrong place (an old directory, perhaps, where the files used to be stored??). Are the archived audio/video files “stamped” with some kind of directory address and can I reset it?
Bottom line is I want to create a new project with the files in it such that the new project knows where the video and audio files are and doesn’t have to go looking for them every time!
any advice appreciated
sincerely
-John
“Life is good, as long as it doesn’t take up too much of my time.”
-anon.
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Try puling each one of your clips into an empty sequence and exporting it. Reimport it.
sorry, haven’t used FCP3 for years.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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Don’t you mean, regenerate it? If so, then I recompress and lose quality. This is not uncompressed footage. ALso exporting will take a long time. I will consider your solution, but regenerating clips doesn’t seem too efficient.
thanks
John
“Life is good, as long as it doesn’t take up too much of my time.”
-anon.
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> Don’t you mean, regenerate it? If so, then I recompress and lose quality. This is not uncompressed footage. ALso exporting will take a long time. I will consider your solution, but regenerating clips doesn’t seem too efficient. < No, I don't mean regenerate it although, where you come from, that's what the concept might be called I said export. That's a cloned copy, there is absolutely no reduction in quality. If you change the settings, yes, you will create something new but it would be rendered, not regenerated. Efficiency is relative, you don't have your audio clips, that seems terribly inefficient. Exporting, reimporting and relinking eliminates all that. Setting up your original capture to separate audio from video and capture to separate drives or folders was a common practice with many NLEs back when FCP3 shipped but it was never a good idea with FCP3. bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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