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File Names Do Not Show Up in Reconnect Media
I just opened up a project I haven’t touched in a while and now most of the clips in my sequence require reconnecting (I don’t know why). The problem I’m running into is that when I click Reconnect Media the names for the files do not show up so not only does the Search not work but even if I wanted to reconnect them manually (which I don’t, that would take forever) I don’t know which clip I’m attempting to reconnect.
Has anyone else run into this problem or have any guesses as to what my next move should be?
Here’s what I’m seeing
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I’ve had this happen to me before. I’m not sure exactly how it happens, but I would manually reconnect them. If you scroll through your timeline, it’ll show you the offline clip, and funny enough it always showed me the clip name. As long as you don’t change your clip names and they still reflect the name of the media file, you can manually reconnect them. It’s not fun, but that’s what I did.
Richard Sanchez
Arcadia, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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It appears the files that FCP is looking for are (or were) in the trash?
Jeremy
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Basically, it means that something has been corrupted. Usually this is a render file but sometimes its the dreaded media file that gone south for the winter.
First, I’d try deleting all of your render files either in FCP after you get the message or deleting them before you open FCP. If its not that, you’ll have to painstakingly find the corrupt media file.
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We just had the same thing happen today – during mid project the drive suddenly went offline. We had to go back 2 autosaves to get to a version that knew what the file names to reconnect to were
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The drive went offline?
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The files aren’t in the trash, 3 of them were but the huge blank space under where is says ‘Root: is where all the media files should show up, instead it’s empty, like FCP knows how many files are missing, where they should be, but not their names (despite the fact that in the timeline they show up with the names).
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I just did the same thing and the media was still disconnected but at least the file names were showing up in the Reconnect Media window. *phew* Thanks!
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Mac OS X 10.5.3
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I’ve just encountered this problem as well on a very large project with many short clips. Connecting these one at a time with no clip names pre-filled sucks….
G5 Quad 2.5| FCP HD | Kona LHe
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Try going back an Autosave or two. That’s what worked for me. The files were still disconnected but at least they had names and could easily be reconnected.
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Mac Pro | Leopard 10.5.3
2.66GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon | 4GB Ram
Final Cut Pro Studio 2 | Avid Media Composer
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