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reconnecting media
i’m starting a project in NYC – all of the footage is captured and on drives in LA. The assistant editor has made bins and put the clips in there. when i got the project ALL the files were offline because I got the clone drives. I tried to reconnect the media and about 10% will not reconnect. I think the media is there and i don’t think the files were renamed or deleted -which was my inital fear. When i do a find via the MAC finder there are these like phantom quicktime files that appear – the file name is there but the quicktime icon is not. Then sometimes they will show up on the drive with the same name but FCP wont connect to them. I have match files in realative path checked and only reconnect files with same name. Its weird. any advice?
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Same versions of FCP? Are there any file extensions (.mov) at the end of those phantom files, or the non phantom files? Tell you buddy in LA, the best way to move a project is to use the ‘move’ function of the media manager, for future reference.
Jeremy
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Seems FCP’s database is having a much rougher time tracking media these days, especially if it media that been copied in the Finder. The assistant should have copied the project to the other drive using Media Manager to insurre that FCP never lost links to the media.
Also sounds as if permissions are screwy, try fixing them using disk utility.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY
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[JeremyG] “Tell you buddy in LA, the best way to move a project is to use the ‘move’ function of the media manager, for future reference.”
or “copy”
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY
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