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Media Manager Abort/schizophrenia
I’m having problems moving clips from one (failing) RAID drive to a new (networked) RAID. I have tried to use Media Manager to shoot the clips over to the new drive but once it aborted halfway (leaving some clips on one drive, other clips on another drive) and then I tried again and it only copied about 1 out of 7 clips to the new location.
I have FCP Studio Pro 5 right now and am about to upgrade to FCP Studio 2, which I hear has a better Media Manager.
I’m wondering if I’m doing something wrong when I use Media Manager and whether it would be easier to just move things in the Finder and then Reconnect Media rather than try to use the Media Manager and end up with a corrupted Final Cut file.
Thanks!
andrea2×3 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon Mac OS X (10.4.10)
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11 Replies
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If your RAID is dying, i would not blame the media manager.
Why can’t you just drag and drop everything to the new Raid?
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It’s not the RAID’s fault: the fact that it’s failing is why I’m moving the data to a new RAID. I think my original question was: am I using Media Manager incorrectly? If I’m not, and if Media Manager is not a good tool, then is it advisable to just move the files in the Finder?
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What Jeremy said. Drag all your files or folder over. Don’t use the MM for this.
Reconnecting media is easy when you put all the moved stuff to one new place.
I do this all the time when I have a project on my RAID that’s backed up on
firewire drives per project. I can take the firewire drive home and use a copy of the
project file from the workstation at the office and copy it to my Macbook Pro C2D,
and after one click, FCP sees that all the media has been moved to the firewire drive
and off I go. Same thing in your situation.dr
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Thanks very much! Trying to use the Media Manager was extremely frustrating. Hopefully it will be a more useful tool in FCP Studio 2.
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how are you using the Media Manager? (Tell me your exact steps).
I have found the Media Manager in FCP 5.1.4 to be pretty solid.
Jeremy
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I go to the Media Manager, then in Media I choose Move. I include render files. One of the times I checked Delete unused media from duplicated items, but I will never do that again because it made all my clips into little clips with nearly the same name and then it aborted so I can’t connect the media again but must recapture it. Moving on: I base media file names on existing file names. Project: Duplicate selected items and place into a new project. Include nonactive media multiclip angles. I choose the Media Destination (the new RAID) and click OK. When it says Additional Items Found I Add the item to my new project.
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What is selected when you choose Move?
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Everything in the browser (the whole project). I was trying to move the whole thing from one RAID to the other.
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Try DESELECTING everything. Click on an empty area of your project so absolutely nothing is selected. Then go to the Media Manager.
Jeremy
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I thought that would mean I wouldn’t actually move any of the clips?
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