Media Manager: “Unknown Error trying to reconnect…”

[Mark Raudonis]

[Jesse G] “m trying to avoid matchframing all of the shots because there are literally hundreds of them in a 1 hr show, but there may be no other choice. “

Start matchframing. It’s taking us at least a couple of hours to completely “matchback” a one hour show. And, if you’re effect/transition heavy, there’s plenty of opportunity for mistakes.

This specific media manager issue is costing us many hours of wasted time. It’s a big deal for anyone using the off-line to on-line workflow.

Mark

[Jesse Gordon]

Gotta love how the MM is apparently worse than ever.

[Kenny Park]

In my experience, in the case of the ‘unknown error occurred while trying to reconnect clip’ situation, the media is always available in the destination you specified in Media Manager — it’s just differently named. The quickest solution (quicker than matchframing every shot in your sequence) is to take the conformed sequence and manually reconnect the affected clips.

At the moment I’m cutting a half-hour TV show and get this very error when I use Media Manager to copy the clips into a new project, deleting unused media (resulting in about 100GB of material, rather than the 600+ of all the rushes). Just about everything is multi-clipped. I always get the ‘reconnect’ error, but have found that more often than not, if the sequence is calling the clip, say, Tape 1-14, the actual file it SHOULD link to is Tape 1-15. To be safe, I check with a stand alone quicktime of the show made from the original sequence (before the archive process). Although not 100% of the time, by far the most common problem was Final Cut trying to link to the file BEFORE the file is should be looking for.

One theory is that the handles result in two clips with the appropriate starting timecode and reel name, with FC linking to the first one it finds. Just a theory.

Anyway, though its a pain, I just skip through the archive sequence and deal with any wayward clip I find. Better than going through the original shot by shot.

Another problem is that sometimes, FCP is still linking to the original media in the original location, but this can be fixed manually too.

The good news is that the appropriate media HAS been copied into the new location, you just need to link to it properly.

This has been my experience, anyway.

[Paul Whishaw]

I was trying to Media Manage a 1 hour fight show and MM would not cooperate. When I tried to make a copy without linking to multi clips and eliminating unused media it would still take over 200GB so it obviously was not managing anything.

MM is still complete crap.

Sorry this isn’t helpful but MM really does suck!

Paul Whishaw
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