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More painless/seemless way to relink offline shots?
I’m working on Animation projects and shots are constanly being updated and revised. My problem is the amount of time that relinking these files is taking. Right now what happens is as follows. Someone updates a shot, saving over the original. In Final Cut the cursor spins for a while and then the Media offline flag appears, a window pops up telling me the file has gone offline and asks me what to do. I click reconnect. So it spins a bit again and then asks me which type of files to reconnect. I click offline files. So it spins for a while and then eventually pops up a dialog showing the directory and the file already highlighted. I click ok and the file is relinked, no problem. The problem is that the whole process has several steps and takes some time, probably around a minute. That might not seem like much, but this is constantly going on throughout the day, hundreds of shots. I figure it is starting to eat up hours of my workday. In this very dynamic environment i need to get feedback quickly and then get back to the artists, so i can’t just relink a whole bunch of shots in the morning or evening, I need to view these shots in the cut immediately. My question is: Is there a way to streamline the relinking process or even make it automatic. I know which file is being replaced, this file is just being updated and is not truely offline – the file still exists and in the same exact location. When media goes “offline” FCP sits there and thinks about it and eventually on its own points me back to the original file, so is there a way to make it just relink this file automatically? Is there a way to skip the several steps of the process and have it go straight to the dialog pointing to my original file? Any help might not seem like much, but it’d be a lifesaver.
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[Jason Adams] “I know which file is being replaced, this file is just being updated and is not truely offline – the file still exists and in the same exact location.”
Jason,
To you it may be the same file… but to the FCP data base, it’s a new file.
My best advice to you is to not go “too deep” in folders with the media organization so that the reconnect process goes quicker.
Good luck.
Mark
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Mark, this is not a personal attack by any means. I read these forums everyday I am at work and even some days when I’m not. Why do people insist on posting “answers” that simply don’t. I see this time and time again and while I’m sure the cow can handle the bandwidth, it’s a waste of mine and others’ time and energy to go through this everyday. The response here (as an example, sorry Mark!) does not answer any question in the previous post. Can we all agree that if we don’t have an answer, just not to post. If we’ve got this kind of time in the work day, maybe it would be better spent walking outdoors or something as I am sure we all spen entirely too much time in front of our computers. Maybe it’s early and I’m a bit cranky but it just does not make any sense to me…
End rant. Sorry for watsing everyone’s precious time! Hahaha.
alts
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Alts,
You took eight lines to rant about my two line response. Who’s wasting bandwidth here?
mark
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I think I sufficiently stated that my post was not a personal attack but an attack on a bigger problem that my colleagues and I all agree detracts from the spirit of the Cow. If you (not actually referring to you Mike) have no answer, leave the keyboard alone.
Kind Regards,
alts
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