Media not offline but acts like it, kinda

Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

Media not offline but acts like it, kinda

Posted by Todd Skougor on October 27, 2006 at 5:51 pm

Hey guys,
Here’s the skinny.
I have a few different sequences that are giving me intermittent problems. The first seq was opened one morning and some of the clips were greyed out. They were not offline (white clip) they were not blue (online)either, but they were like muted blue. Kinda “de-selected”. When I played the clips that were greyed out all that played was black. I could match frame the clip and the media would appear in my viewer. The strangest part was that some of the greyed out clips were razor bladed clips. One side of the clip would be visible in the timeline but the other side of the edit was greyed. I match framed the edits and fixed the seq, but man…There are zero filters or rendering on these clips. What the hell?

The second issue I had this morning was a fun one. I walked into edit and the client was already there, yay! So I open their project and play the sequence. As we advance into the show, noticing all clips are online, we quickly realize that several clips has relinked to completely different pieces of media. Broll video from my capture scratch has relinked to title media created in boris. It looked like a total train wreck. So, after a short head scratching I relinked the bad clips to the original locations and all was fine. What the hell? I never relinked these clips to the wrong media. I never moved the media after capturing it.

Thanks in advance,
Kinda clueless,
Todd

Steve Cohen replied 19 years, 6 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
5 Replies

David Roth weiss
October 27, 2006 at 6:39 pm

Whenever you get absolutely wacky behavior like this you should probably do the following before relinking the files:

1. trash prefs
2. repair permissions
3. reboot the computer

Relinking may solve the symptoms, but not the underlying problem.

DRW
Todd Skougor
October 27, 2006 at 6:50 pm

thanks dave,
T
Jeremy Garchow
October 27, 2006 at 9:11 pm

Perhaps your clips are disabled. Sometimes in the heat of the edit, inadvertent key combonations can throw you for a loop. To enable (or disable) a clip, the key combo is option-b. Select that greyed out clip and enable it again by hitting option-b.

Jeremy
Todd Skougor
October 27, 2006 at 10:02 pm

Thanks,
I’ll try that when/if that happens again.
T
Steve Cohen
October 30, 2006 at 2:38 am

I always like to blame stuff like that on a disgruntaled employee that may be messing with you.

Steve Cohen
Senoir Editor
O2 Media Inc.

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