Offline media

[David Roth weiss]

What type of hard drive configuration are you using for your media (video) files?

The only time this kind of thing happens in my experience is when a firewire drive goes offline during editing. If you are using numerous firewire drives daisy chained together you’re much more likely to experience this type of event/issue. However, it’s not one most people encounter a lot.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
http://www.drwfilms.com

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[Mekael Adu]

hi David

Theres no external drive’s connected to my imac. it was saved as a converted VOB file to Quicktime movie using Apple DV codec, and saved directly onto the main Hard drive in a selected folder !

is there anyway of getting the media Back ?!!

Mek

Mekael

[David Roth weiss]

You should not be editing video that resides on your system drive, you should have dedicated drives for all audio and video files, but that does not account for the missing file. Have you checked inside the trash?

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
http://www.drwfilms.com

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Colorist – UP IN THE AIR (electronic press kit) – nominated for six academy awards

A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums. Formerly host of the Apple Final Cut Basics, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.

[Mekael Adu]

Hi

I was going to get a dedicated USB hard drive in the near future, but i thought running some Video and Audio of a harbdrive with 1TB of storage would be fine,….if not….why ?

i’ve checked the Trash and it not there either !!!

Mekael

Mekael

[David Roth weiss]

USB does not supply the necessary sustained throughput for video editing without dropping frames, and using your “system drive” is also not recommended for video editing because the system drive is too busy to supply the necessary throughput because it’s doing the tasks necessary to run the OS and applications.

I have no idea where you file resides now, sorry… Have you tried using the spotlight to find it?

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
http://www.drwfilms.com

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

Colorist – UP IN THE AIR (electronic press kit) – nominated for six academy awards

A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums. Formerly host of the Apple Final Cut Basics, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.

[Mekael Adu]

Thanks Dave

The loss of media is a bit of a mystery…. so i think i have to keep an eye on this and see if it happens again.
The real worry is if i come back to a project and the whole thing is offline, I’m not sure what the process would be for reconnecting media that has Vanished of the drive!!

Thanks for the heads up on the USB drop frame issue I’ll make sure i purchace a external firewire Drvie as soon as i can. until then i gona have to store it on the system drive.

keep an eye out on my post, i’m just getting to grips with FCP and mac’s after using Quantel and Avid for the last 4 years…..it’s a steep learning curve and i’m sure i gona have alot of question.

Thanks again

Mekael