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Offline Media Files Names Blank
Hi,
I found a few posts on this previously, but no solution other than going back to an earlier autosave of the project, so I’m posting again in the hope someone has a solution.
I moved a few hundred gigs of media from an ailing G-Tech to a new one. When relinking the media, FCP finds several hundred offline files but there are blanks and not file names in the reconnect window. The offline file names are visible in the timeline and browser. But I can’t search and reconnect. Even when I try to relink one file at a time, the offline named file in the timeline does not have a name in the reconnect window. This is a doc with hundreds of hours of archival so this will be a bear to reconnect manually. What happened? File corruption in the copy process? (Everything copied completely and without any error message.) Any suggestions?
FCP 6.0.6
OS 10.5.8 (Production won’t pay for upgrades)
2×3 GHz Quad-Core
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Okay, I ran Disk Warrior on all drives, trashed FCP prefs, and restarted. The problem remains. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Do you have reel numbers in your project?
Any weird characters in the names of the files?
Reconnecting 1×1 is the only way, really.
Maybe something here will help:
https://www.digitalrebellion.com/fcs_maintenance.htm
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Hi,
Thanks, there are reel numbers. The strange thing is, I manually reconnected everything that was offline in the browser. Yet when I reopen the project, it still says there are 700 offline media files, all of which have blank spaces for names. But in the project nothing is offline. I have an suspicion this has something to do with another bizarre issue, posted about here: https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1026613#1083894
Essentially, the “Reveal Master Clip” function does not work, although Mach Frame and Reveal in Finder work, and the master clip is in the browser. So maybe somehow FCP has “lost” the original master clips and their names and is trying to reconnect them? I am usually pretty scientific about these things, but I am really stuck here. If anyone has any advice about these two issues, any solutions or causes, they would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.FCP 6.0.6
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Did you ever copy and paste your media into a new project? Or drag and drop to a new project or is this your only project?
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As a matter of fact, yes, I copied and pasted the everything into a new project to reduce file size as advised by: https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1056797
There were a few blank reconnects before I did that (maybe 20 or so files) but after I did that there were about 700 blank named files to reconnect. I copied all the bins and sequences, so all master and affiliate clips were copied over. Would this copy make them loose their affiliation? I have copied stuff between projects before without problems.
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Yeah, something is going south (or is already in the Gulf) in your project.
For the files that won’t match back (shift-f) there’s a corresponding file in the project, right?
Did your hard drive that is storing the media ever have any issues? Disconnect? Fail? Not start up?
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Yeah, the master clips that don’t respond to “reveal master clip” are definitely in the browser. We did have 2 G-Tech drives start making noises and have trouble mounting. I had to replace those and move a lot of media to new drives. All media copied and seemed to reconnect successfully, other than these mysterious blank files. This is a low budget doc with 3 years of editing behind it on a bunch of G-Tech 1TB external drives. I’ve only been on for a short time. They won’t spend the money to get a big professional raid and copy everything over.
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[Erin Chan] “We did have 2 G-Tech drives start making noises and have trouble mounting.”
That could have something to do with it.
If you do match back and get the error, you can add a new master clip and keep those in a new bin.
Check the browser as well, are all clips checked as master clips?
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Thanks so much for your help. Yes, “Master Clip” is checked in the browser for the master clips. I can match frame from the timeline and see the master clip name in the viewer, but it won’t reveal master clip. When I find the master clip (with identical name and “master clip” checked) in the browser, and open it in the viewer I can match frame back from the viewer to the timeline. So you think I should just make new master clips for everything? The thing is, when I create a new master clip from the timeline, even if there is a second clip from that same master clip in the timeline, it won’t find it. It makes me create a new identical master clip for each affiliate clip. Is this going to F-up my online?
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Is all of your media tape based? It won’t mess up your online.
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