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Nightmare Scenario!!!!
Ok – here we go……
I’m half way through a 50 min doc edit and one of my Lacie Big Disks (500gb) got too full and is dropping frames all over the shop. The project is DV Pal with about 50 hours of material spread over three drives. We can’t copy files from the Lacie at finder level – it just hangs and while some file play in the timeline, some don’t. I understand there’s no solution to this as Lacie drives are a load of Pants and about 30% fail!We decided the best solution was to recapture the files (often whole tapes) onto a new drive but have hit another problem. The runner who digitised the project (bless) hit “capture now” right at the start of the tape and the player can’t roll back to redigitise as theres not enough preroll (No lectures about bars on the start of tapes or digitising shorter clips please!!!!)
if we redigitise as new clips will FCP use the timecode on the new clip to relink or will I have to replace all 500 edits by hand?
Yours hopefully
Sean
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Find that clip in the bin and modify the in point to allow enough room for a preroll.
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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 1.25 TB 4105 Fibre
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will that relink OK?
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Sure, unless you have used those first few seconds of video somewhere in your timeline.
Take the clip offline, modify the media start point, and do a batch capture on that clip. The timecode will still be the same you are just lopping off the first 10 seconds or so.
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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 1.25 TB 4105 Fibre
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FCP wont let me change the media start column in the browser!
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The clip must be offline. Control-Click the clip, select make offline, and check the leave on disk option (so that it’ll still be there if you need it). Double click the media start point and modify it.
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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 1.25 TB 4105 Fibre
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Thanks it’s working! – 200 clips to go!!!!
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You should only have to do this for clips that start at the beginning of a tape. DO you have 200 tapes?
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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 1.25 TB 4105 Fibre
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Off the help topic, we just had a Lacie Big Disk 500GB disk go out on us a few days ago. Same scenario. Lost everything that was on the drive. Lacie’s customer support is very good, and we were able to ship the drive to them. It is scheduled to be back in our hands on Thursday, 1 week after we sent it out. Not bad! Needless to say, I do not trust the drives at this time. I am happy with Lacie’s quick response and help, though.
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your faith is admirable – Out of the 10 odd drives Ive worked with (Im Freelance) in the last year 30% have developed faults. – they contain IDE drives and are made of cheap components – dont trust them skywalker!!!!
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Yeah, but are you guys treating the drives right?
Are you unmounting (ejecting) them before shut down?
Not doing so is the #1 way to fry your directory.
Filling them up all the way is also not good.
Do you spin them up prior to launching your Mac?
Do you erase/initialize them between major projects?
Do you keep them in a well-ventilated cool space?
Do you have slower FireWire devices daisy chained to them (like a slow camcorder).Not as many FireWire drives would have problems if they were maintained better, IMHO.
There are so many things that can go wrong with them, you have to be fairly tech savvy
to keep them running in top condition.Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
fcpworld.com
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