Missing Render Files? Please help!!

[Jeremy Garchow]

Welcome Pol-

Do you have any reference movies in your project or perhaps Motion projects?

[Pol Hauskarl]

Hi!
I’m not exactly sure what you mean by “in the project”. I have made ref.files but I keep them in a folder on my main hard drive not my capture scratch or, as you say, “in the project”. I use them for sending batched through Compressor so I can keep working on other stuff in FC.
Thanks for trying to help, and actually, I’d still like to know any recommendations for avoiding this problem but I found a way around it…
I opened the project via the latest autosave file and saved it. Still didn’t work opening from the main project file so I opened it again from the autosave and then renamed it and re-rendered everything needing rendering and I’m back in the pink. then I deleted the original project file.
Like I said, I’d still like to hear form you on what happened and how to avoid it. Did the ref.file really do this? Because I keep ref.files for other projects and have no such problems. Still scratching my head.

[Pol Hauskarl]

Hi!
I’m not exactly sure what you mean by “in the project”. I have made ref.files but I keep them in a folder on my main hard drive not my capture scratch or, as you say, “in the project”. I use them for sending batched through Compressor so I can keep working on other stuff in FC.
Thanks for trying to help, and actually, I’d still like to know any recommendations for avoiding this problem but I found a way around it…
I opened the project via the latest autosave file and saved it. Still didn’t work opening from the main project file so I opened it again from the autosave and then renamed it and re-rendered everything needing rendering and I’m back in the pink. then I deleted the original project file.
Like I said, I’d still like to hear form you on what happened and how to avoid it. Did the ref.file really do this? Because I keep ref.files for other projects and have no such problems. Still scratching my head.
Forgot to mention…
I still get the FIN-00000001 search but it let’s me cancel and doesn’t hang.. Anyway to stop it from wanting to search?

[Jeremy Garchow]

If you had imported any of those reference files in to your project, even one of them, you will get that search if the render files had been deleted or rewritten. If you have a Motion project that referenced rendered temporary media (that is FCP render files) that is now in your project, it will search for the render file. You can cancel out of the warning, yes, but the file that is referencing the deleted render files, is still in your project if FCP is giving you that warning. Make sense? To get rid of it you need to get rid of the clip that is referencing that missing media.

Jeremy