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files are offline but ‘play’, and clips vanish from browser…
Disclaimer: I’m not experienced with FCP, just trying to clear up someone’s mess.
I’m currently trying to tidy up a project to bring it to a position where we can take it to a post house to do a conform.
The project and (allegedly) all the files have been brought over from the editor’s computer, and there’s a few issues:
1. There’s several sound clips that are apparently offline (in the browser and the timeline) but still play – why is this? I’ve tried to reconnect but I can’t find the correct media files on the disk. Could it relate to the rendering?
2. All the media files had to be reconnected. There were a few duplicate file names for the video files, and the person doing the reconnecting guessed which was which. Of course, some of them were wrong, and so I re-reconnected them. The video now plays fine and correctly, but I can’t find the clips for which the files were reconnected in the browser (they are there on the timeline).
We have to get this conform done very, very quickly for a good festival, so immense thanks to anyone who can offer any help
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3 Replies
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I’d guess that the audio files that are off-line, but continue to play on the timeline, were RENDERED and the render file is playing.
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Hi there,
Thank is right bout the rendered audio files…although check why they need to be rendered.In term of the clips in the browser, you can select all hthe timeline clips and drag them into the browser and there they will be. and you can check the “offline” audio clip that way too.
Alternatively use media manager to remake the sequence, with just the media used. I guess yu should do this anyway for the posthouse.
cheers
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Thanks, I think I’ve got this sorted now… Luckily most of the missing audio is sound effects we can re-do, but there’s one line of dialogue that’s gone…oops.
Thanks for the media manager suggestion, was thinking of doing that but hadn’t decided for sure.
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