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Reconnectiing Media with truncated filenames
hiya folks,
we’re using 6.01 here on top of the line macs, our media is on an XSAN network.
Somebody moved my media while I was working, causing me to have a ‘General Error’.
I saved, closed FCP, opened it again, and found all my media offline, and set about reconnecting it. 90% of the media reconnected happily. However…
a few pieces still showed as offline on my timeline and the reconnection dialogue. It looked like the media referenced by the timeline now had a truncated filename that looks like
‘shot 1_blahblahbl#1D36HR’
and while I could manually reconnect that clip to the correct piece of media that it was originally referencing, it does not pop up on the timeline because the timeline is looking for a piece of media with the truncated name.
is there a quick solution? I suppose I could go back and rename my original media files with the stupid truncated names so they they match…
perhaps there’s a way to edit the name that FCP thinks it’s looking for?
any ideas?
thanks
Sney //
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4 Replies
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Try reconnecting from the timeline. Right-click the problem clip and select “Reconnect Media” from there. I’m not positive that this will work but I seem to remember doing that when I couldn’t get a clip in my timeline to reconnect even after I did the “Reconnect Media” from the bin.
Hope this helps.
-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios -
Long file names are NOT a good idea. Your experience is a prime example why.
We stick to a very simple “date/camera/load” system for filenames: Example: 725A03 (July 25, A camera, third load). All of the “cu of girl ” etc. goes in the “comments” column.
FCP 6 now has a “file renaming” function that will match the browser filename to the finder file. This may help you, but be CAREFUL doing that. You mentioned you’re on X-SAN. If you rename a clip at the finder level, anyone else who’s already used it will now get knocked off-line and have no idea what your new name is.
Bottom line: Short file names.
Mark
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thanks for the advice folks.
right after i posted my query, my manager walked in and i showed him my issue, tried to relink some more media, and lo and behold, it all magically worked?!?! (honestly it’s not me being a muppet…)
obviously it was just waiting for him to walk into the suite…
I’ll bear in mind your suggestions though, especially regarding keeping shorter filenames.
thanks for taking the time to respond.
regards
Sney //
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Has anyone ever had any luck figuring this out? I’m having the same problem with truncation. We’ve fixed them manually relinking, but it was like 300 files and we’re horrified of more going missing. The file names in the project are long, but the problem happens sometimes on very long ones but other times on simple 10 letter filenames. Any help would be appreciated!
Rob Briscoe
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