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Media unlinks from timeline
Periodically when hiding FCP and then returning to it, media unlinks in the open timeline. Manually re-linking the media & renders works, but it is time consuming and a pain. Any ideas?
Turning off Set Date & Time Automatically & Software Update in OS System Preferences has made no difference.
We have 4 x FCP 5.0.4 suites with XSan.
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Make sure the scratch disk is running before you launch a project file for starters, and don’t move media on the desktop then launch. Use MM for that…
Jerry
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No, we have an XSan as the scratch disk, so it always available.
To be clear, we may have had the project open for a few minutes or a few hours, editing away, when suddenly the media unlinks from the timeline. The media is still in the same place on our XSan and no one has moved it.
We never store media on the desktop, only the XSan.
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> No, we have an XSan as the scratch disk, so it always available. To be clear, we may have had the project open for a few minutes or a few hours, editing away, when suddenly the media unlinks from the timeline. The media is still in the same place on our XSan and no one has moved it.< I cna think of only one way media unlinks and that's because the media becomes unavailable. AFAIK, there is no other reason for FCP to lose track of its media files. That leaves us with only one possible explanation: When you hide FCP, your system tells your fiber card that it can drop offline or the xSan polls your system and is told to drop the connection. It's not an FCP issue, that's for sure. It's your system prefs, the fiber channel card setup or the xSAN setup. I think. bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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