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Reconnected clips don’t “stick”.
My project had too much media – drove me insane (4 TB). I know that I only need 2 TB of it. For instance, I’ll be using 10 sec out of an hour clip. Plus all this media was split across 10 firewire drives. So I decided to do some housekeeping and move all the media I need to one internal RAID.
My first step was to move (not copy) all the used media (1/2 the show is rough cut) to the RAID. I used Media Manager to move all used media in my timeline in one central location on an internal RAID. Worked great. I deleted all the master clips out of the browser.
Then, I spent a few days combing through the unused media on the 10 drives and trimming only what I needed in QT Pro and saving the trimmed clips to the internal RAID.
I reorganized all the media in category folders and brought all of that back in the project.
The Issue:
When I open the project, 93 clips are offline. I can successfully reconnect them (at least it looks like it is) but if I save, close and reopen the project, the clips show offline again.
Something strange also happened during this adventure: When I used media manager to move all the used clips from the timeline, a few clips where still offline. I tried to reconnect them to the source clips and even though the process of doing so seemed successful, the clips were still offline in the timeline.
Any ideas to make sure the reconnected clips remain reconnected is very much appreciated.
Thanks!
Frederic
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1 Reply
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You need to reconnect the sequence clips too… they don’t reconnect automatically when you reconnect the browser clips all the time. They aren’t the same object to FCP, even though they reference the same media.
I’d re-import those clips that don’t like to stay connected to work around that problem. I’ll wager these newly imported clips stay connected.
Jerry
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