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Problem using Automatic Duck and Reconnecting
I fear I already know the answer, but thought I’d throw it out to ya’ll for opinions. Here is what happened.
1) Attempted to use Automatic Duck to bring a project into After Effects (Export the AAF, bring into AE – did not work).
2) Upon realizing it didn’t work, went back to FCPX and found the ENTIRE project Offline.
So no biggie? Reconnect right? No option for that in FCPX, but I’ve heard you can reimport the clips. After all, they DID NOT MOVE.
Reimporting did not work, it created a duplicate clip in the event.
I also noticed they had “(fcp1)” at the end of their names. Changing the name did not allow the clip to “reconnect” either. I also noticed the modified date had changed.
Did Automatic Duck and After Effects modify the file and somehow stripped it of some important identifying metadata FCPX needs to connect to it?
I’ve submitted feedback to Apple asking for a manual reconnect. I am a HUGE fan of this program, but this experience scared the crap out of me (I have to re-edit my 60 second spot basically) and makes me turn towards Premiere in a big way…
Unless someone has a solution I haven’t tried. Much obliged.
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This happens with FCP7, too, but not as bad. You have to turn off XMP in After effects which is in the preferences under “Media and Disk Cache”.
It is true (and I’d never thought I’d say this) but FCPX needs LESS robust media handling for situations such as these.
Try dragging one file from the Finder back on to the Event and see if that reconnects it. It works sometimes.
Jeremy
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Good tip, thanks Jeremy.
I’ve tried dragging the file in, but it doesn’t work here. Bummer. Will def turn off that feature in After Effects for the future though.
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FCP Guru
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