Need to re render entire film!? help

[Michael Gissing]

Are the render files on your hard drive? Have you tried reconnecting them?

Did you stay with the same version of FCP. A bit of info about versions and hardware might help us help you.

[Julian Stewart]

Using FCP 7.
Same everything…

I’ve tried reconnecting, and it reconnects some stuff. But the majority of clips are still not rendered!

[John Pale]

[julian stewart] “And its going to take 2 weeks or rendering or so. “

Not what you want to hear right now, but in the future, if you create anything that requires this degree of rendering…for the love of God, please make a self contained movie of the final product.

Try going to your last auto save before the final project and see if the render files are still there.

Also make sure you have not renamed your drives or disturbed your original file path in any way.

[Alan Okey]

Unless you used Media Manager to make a copy of your project and selected that option to copy both the original media and the render files, it sounds like your render files weren’t written to your portable drives. It’s likely that your FCP render directory is currently set to be a local directory on your editing system’s hard drive back home.

If you plan to travel with projects, learn how to use Media Manager to make sure that everything comes with you. There’s a wealth of information in the FCP manual on Media Manager.

[Julian Stewart]

No because I’m using my laptop, the same computer…
I think I screwed up though, because the first time I opened up the project it was all not rendered for some reason… But then I tried to render some of it, then saving the project.
Now, in this instance, I think when I saved it over wrote all my old render files with the non rendered files????
Because I cant seem to get them back anyway…

Its really annoying because not only does it say it will take 2 weeks or so, it keeps crashing while rendering. ARG!