Reconnect Media Failed!

[Jerry Hofmann]

If you disconnect the clips in the sequence from the media files (easy to do, just trash the originals or move them to another folder) you can’t recapture? What happens? (“of course it doesn’t work” doesn’t really explain what’s going on).

Jerry

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[David Scott]

Hi Jerry
Sorry I was not very clear – I’ll start again!

I cut a fast paced 10min piece a couple of years ago using FCP4.5HD, and have long since needed to ditch the media to free up drive space. I have been asked to do an update on the item using most of the old clips but inserting some new ones, so I need to recapture the old media.

I have openned the old project in FCP 5.0.4 and tried to batch capture the media (BetaSP) from the time line – I did not want to capture from the browser as it contains hundreds of clips (now all offline) that I ultimately did not use in the cut. FCP seems to capture a clip then throws up an error message “Reconnect Media Failed”. The Quicktime movie is in the Capture Scratch, but is corrupt, and does not appear in the browser window.

I found that if I copy the sequence into a new project, and then copy the clips to the browser and recapture from there, some of them will capture, but then require relinking to the clips in the timeline as they are still offline.

I have a lot of clips to capture and this is slow.

Do you know why it is not caputuring the clips correctly from an old project?

Hope this makes more sense!
Many thanks
David