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Media goes offline when I close down and reopen a project
I am using FCP 6. I have a kona 3 card and am capturing audio and video onto two five drive Burly Port multipliers. These are connected to an eSATA card. I do not have a RAID configuration, so these show up as ten seperate external harddrives.
I have captured 85 total hours of video and audio to these drives on several different projects and after shutting and reopening each project, FCP says that my media has gone offline and makes me attempt to reconnect it.
Before I shut the project down, everything works fine.
It appears that after reopening the project, FCP does still know where my audio files are (I captured audio and video to seperate disks. Before closing and reopening the projects, the audio and video were automatically linked) It’s my video files that are suddenly offline. What’s even stranger, is that if I attempt to manually reconnect the video files, I get a warning that says certain attributes will change if I reconnect: media start and end times. And indeed, if I hit continue and force it to reconnect to the media, some of the timecode numbers change and the video and audio are not perfectly in synch. Upon closer examination, by dragging the seperate audio and video files into the timeline from the finder, I’ve noticed that the video files are slightly longer than the audio files, which is very bizzare because I captured them at the same time by using the capture now settings in FCP. This is also strange to me considering that after I first captured the footage, before I saved and shutdown the project, all the video and audio files were synched and playing normally.
Anyone know what the heck is going on? If so, please help. I’ve been capturing 85 hours of footage for a week and a half, and now can’t really view or work with any of it.
Thanks for any suggestions or insight.
Aaron
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2 Replies
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Hi Aaron.
I have a similar problem, but only with the Audio, not the video.
It happens when we send projects to a different studio, using the same version (5.4.1), or when we receive projects from them.
Some of the sounds connect fine, others get the “Media start and end” message that pulls them out of sync.I’ve noticed we got those messages when we tried to link to files in a different frame rate (23.98 instead of 24 and vice versa), or even audio clips that were originally edited in a timeline with different frame rate.
But now all our timelines are the same (23.98), and we’re still getting that for some of the audio files.
If anyone makes progress on this question please let us know.
Thanks
Gilad
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Forgot to mention:
We also had that message coming up when reconnecting video after moving it between 24 and 23.98 timelines.
There the problem was obvious: a missing frame at the end of each clip.
But with the audio, FCP actually interpreted the media file differently, reading a different part of the file than before!So check all the clips for which you had this message to make sure they’re still in sync.
Even though all our machines are working in 23.98 now, we are still experiencing this problems when sending projects back and forth (our production takes place in different studios). Some sound files (but not all of them) reconnect with this problem, which makes it almost impossible to transfer the exact sound edit.
If anyone has more information about this “Media Start and End” alert, please let us know. I saw other people having this problem in other forums, but no solution for the moment.
Thanks
Gilad
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