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reconnecting media and the ” file
i moved some clips from one drive to another. not usually a big problem, and neither is this one, but it is annoying and just seeing if anyone else has experienced it.
when the project loads, it of course tells me that 46 clips are offline and need to be reconnected. so i choose to reconnect, but the only file name showing in the list to be connected is the ” file. that is, just a single quotation mark sitting there in space. of course, i have no clips by this name : ) so i just choose to skip it and move on. this leaves all 46 clips unconnected in my timeline (as well as in the browser).
starting in the browser, i choose a single clip to be reconnected. at this point, even with the clip selected, the only clip name to be reconnected in the “Reconnect Files” window is that pesky ” file again. i ignore that bit of business and just select “locate” anyway, find my file and reconnect it. it successfully reconnects…in the browser, but not on the timeline. or, i select a clip in the timeline, reconnect it, and it does so on the timeline, but not in the browser. also, i have to do this one clip at a time, that is, i can’t select a group of clips in the browser and reconnect them all (yes, even with “reconnect all files in relative path” selected).
i even trashed my prefs thinking something was funky in Denmark, but to no avail.
like i said, it is not a serious problem, just a time-killer and wondering if any of you have experienced it before and how to solve it in the future.
thanks for listening…
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10 Replies
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Mortimer,
Its a known bug in FCP 6. Please report it using the link below, because they need to know that its a probelm being encountered by many users.
https://www.apple.com/feedback/finalcutpro.html
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if you still have the original media, you might be better off using the media manager to copy your whole project over to the other drive.
nick
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…and apparently 5.0.4 as well. thanks for the bug report page. i’ve now submitted it…
so this is STILL a problem with 6? does anyone know what triggers it to happen?
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I have a very similar situation:
I recently moved my computer to a new residence and had to disconnect my external media drives from my computer. When I started up FCP yesterday, I found, not surprisingly, that all my clips were disconnected from their media files. So, I proceeded to try to reconnect them. Just as a test, I selected one video clip file in my browser and hit reconnect media. But when I did this, the only “file” that showed up in the list was the character “. Just the quotation mark. So, I am unable to reconnect ” to any file, because I have no file named “. The strange thing about this is that if I close this project (which is a close copy of another project) and open the original project, all my files show as connected to their media. For a variety of reasons, I don’t want to use the original project file. I want to use the copy. Any ideas why this project (which I’ve used for 6 months with no problems) is suddenly not connecting to the media but instead is giving me quotation marks?
Thanks,
Paul
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“When I started up FCP yesterday, I found, not surprisingly, that all my clips were disconnected from their media files”
without the drive plugged in that’s not surprising.
if you are saying you hooked the drive up to another system, and open the project on hte new system,
then it IS surprising.
the drive is there,
the media should be online.try attaching the drive to your original system, and opening the project there again.
hopefully it will open.
do a save-as,
and then try the second system again.otherwise you are stuck with the online version,
and re-making the changes.nick
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Anybody have any news on this issue? Working on a feature with lots and lots of media files that I have to move onto different drives for people to work on, and I’m getting tired of reconnecting them in random instancess one by one.
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Anybody have any news on this issue? Working on a feature with lots and lots of media files that I have to move onto different drives for people to work on, and I’m getting tired of reconnecting them in random instancess one by one.
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I’m having the exact same problem, glad i’m not alone :D. Any fixes yet?
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Which version of FCP are you using? I believe the issue has been fixed in 6.0.2. At least it seems that few are complaining. I have not encountered the problem in some time now.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY™
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FCP 5.1.4
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