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Original media files going offline at random, using FCP6
Hi all,
I just started having a minor issue with FCP6, which I’m concered may turn into a major one. Yesterday, one of my media files went offline, and I went to look for it in the capture scratch folder, and it was indeed missing. I tried to do a batch recapture, but it was unsuccessful. It appeared that FCP was capturing a different clip, but even after it “completed”, there wasn’t a new clip, nor was my original clip reconnected. I had to manually punch in the media start and end to recapture the particular clip as a new clip. This morning, I started up Final Cut, and now there’s yet another clip that has gone offline, and sure enough the original media file has disappeared from the capture scratch folder. I haven’t touched the original media files, nor moved them or any of the folders in which they reside. I have been renaming the files after they have been captured (I’m working w/ HDV footage, and I found it easier to just do a Capture Now since a new clip is made in every instance that there’s a timecode break). Could this be a bug?
My setup:
Quad-core Mac Pro w/ 3 GHz processors
(2) 500-gig SATA hard drives, 1 solely for media (306 GB of free space remaining) and the other for my operating system and other software (395 GB remaining)
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5 Replies
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Are you sure the capture drive is good? I had this happen with all my render files on a project last week and it was, indeed, the drive that was going bad. It still showed up on the desktop and I was able to copy some folders over to other drives to save them but other sectors were lost.
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If video files are indeed disappearing from your hard drive that is a pretty big indicator that have hardware related issues.
BTW, the reason you are renaming the files is not clear. Can you elaborate? That also sounds like it could be a problem because it implies that you are randomly capturing and perhaps naming files without thought to proper naming conventions. Are you by any chance using any characters such as #,/,”,\, etc. in your file names???
“No job is worth doing more than once…”
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
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No, I’m not using any characters besides the alphabet. I just called apple, and I ran the disk utility, and did a Verify Disk, and it came back with no issues. However, my capture drive is a hard drive that I purchased separately from Newegg for a pretty cheap price — $120.
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The drive price and the fact its from Newegg are nothing to fear, all of my hard drives come from them too.
Do you have Disk Warrior? I’m pretty sure it might help to run it on all your drives in this case. Its well worth the dough if you don’t have it.
“No job is worth doing more than once…”
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles -
Thanks, David — I’ve seen Disk Warrior at work in one of my previous jobs. I’m definitely going to download it.
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