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HELP! – missing file error message “w/o this file movie can’t play properly”
Here’s the deal….I use FCP for mulitiple projects at a time. Right now I am editing a huge concert dvd which has all P2 media associated it. At the end of the time when I shut off the drive for the concert dvd project and go to open up another project that has nothing to do with the concert project I get this message:
The movie file “0000324.MXF” cannot be found. Without this file, the movie cannot play properly.”
It then gives me the option to “cancel” or “search”. I cancel and then another one pops up. There are hundreds of clips you can imagine….I would have to “cancel all night”
What’s strange is that even if the concert DVD was not the last thing that I was working on, it still prompts me for these f-ing files and the program absolutely won’t open unless they are connected.
For now FCP works fine as long as that terabyte drive is attached with the media. My fear is the day that I have to return the drive…. which is coming soon.
Please help if you can…..
Rgds
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Are you sure that non of those MXF files..rather CLIPS representing those files…aren’t in there? How about exported QT movies? If you have a QT REFERENCE movie that references these files in this project, then you will get this error. That is more like that the error sounds like to me…a QT ref movie that is in that project. Because I had a similar experience and that was the culprit.
Shane
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Hi Shane,
Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I am in fact using a program called Raylight which makes the mxf files “usable” in final cut. It is the mxf’s which fcp calls missing though, not the movie.mxf.mov (which is what raylight converts the files into). Any ideas for a solution? Thanks again.
Lou
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If you have the storage space I might try using media manager to copy everything off of the drive that you have to return to another space. Not sure if this would work or if it’s a long term fix, but it might get you past the point where you have to return the drive.
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yeah, that’s what i was thinking about doing. what a pain. does anyone know of any setting in FCP where I can force final cut to open on an empty project instead of “last one used” or something like that? I feel like that might help.
Lou
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If you have upgraded to FCP 6.0.2, this is from the release notes
Holding Down the Shift Key Forces Final Cut Pro to Open with an Empty Project
If you hold down the Shift key when you open Final Cut Pro, you can override the “Open last project on application launch” option in the General tab of the User Preferences window. Overriding this option forces Final Cut Pro to create an empty project instead of opening the project that was open the last time you used Final Cut Pro.
Haven’t tried it yet, but would be interested to know if it does in fact work.
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Hey Climbon321,
thanks for your help. I tried holding the shift key as well as selecting the option within FCP preferences that tells the program to open with an empty project. I’m still getting that same error message though “blahblah.mxf is missing, without this file the movie won’t play properly.”
now I’m really starting to run out of ideas. If anything else occurs to you, let me know… thanks.
-L
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hey shane,
any idea how to fix it? i’m getting desperate
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OK…you STILL get this message, even if you open a blank NEW project?
Because I was thinking if you use Raylight and are getting that message, the original MXF file that Raylight makes a reference file to might be missing. Check that anyway…see if the file is missing. If not, then delete the Raylight reference to it anyway and see it that helps.
Also, trash your FCP prefs….
Shane
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