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Problem opening Final Cut Pro 5 – Help
I searched the forums and found something kind of like my problem, but not quite.
I was running out of space on my scratch drive, so I bought a 1 TB firewire drive to move all of my clips from projects I’ve completed to. Now that I’ve done this, I get a message when I open Final Cut Pro 5 that says something to the effect of “movie 5 cannot be found, without this file the movie cannot play properly” with a box to cancel or search. I hit cancel. I then get one that says something to the effect of “movie 10 cannot be found, without this file the movie cannot play properly” which again gives me a box of cancel or search. It goes on like this for about 16 or so times alternating between movie 5 and movie 10.
Anyone have any ideas? I found a similar problem listed when I did a web search but that was for DVD studio and Motion, an earlier versions. I haven’t tried to open DVD stutio or Motion yet, so I could be in for a surprise or two down the road. Thanks in advance to anyone pointing me in the right direction.
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3 Replies
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You’re using a clip that was exported as a reference quicktime. So when FCP is trying to load that clip, it’s looking for the original media file it was refererenced to. Since you moved your media, the original media isn’t automatically linked. Either copy the media back and find which file is causing you the grief, or keep hitting cancel until the project loads and then re-link that reference qt
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Sure does sound like a reference movie…
I’m not sure they’ll reconnect, never had the occasion to try though.
Next time use the Media Manager to move the clips, sequences, and renders. That way they stay connected…
Jerry
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I’ve had this issue with reference movies. my workaround was:
1. open the problematic movie in quicktime player (not fcp)
2. hit ‘search” and point to the place where the original is (the file which qt can’t find).
3. after qt found the file, command-s to re-save the reference movie properly linked to the new location.
as for version 4 fcp couldn’t handle this right.
sebas.
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