Reconnecting Media – one clip at a time

[Todd Reid]

I know this doesn’t help you solve your problem, but I’ve not heard of anyone having this specific issue. I reconnect media all the time with no issues. I’m on 6.0.2, Leopard, QT 7.4.
Didn’t have any issues with my laptop either (6.01, Tiger, QT7.3.1).

I submit this in order for you to know that you may have a unique problem.

My only suggestions would be things you may have already tried…
repair permissions (try booting into safe mode for repair), trash preferences, do a clean install, may even think about an OS reinstall.

[Eric Hansen]

thanks for the response

i wish that you were right, but i dont believe this is a unique problem because i’m seeing it on multiple systems in my office, people have responded to my previous posts with similar problems but no solutions (on multiple forums), and i also read a post that Apple changed how Quicktime and FCP deal with video files – so things captured by 6.0.2 can be reconnected by 6.0.2, but not things captured or exported by earlier versions of Final Cut. Final Cut and Quicktime now attach metadata to files in a different way thats not backwards compatible – according to other posts.

because of these issues and the multiple systems i’m dealing with, i have done the trash prefs/repair permissions/reboot stuff, but i’m not going to start doing reinstalls yet. ideally i would go back to 5.1.4 and not deal with this, but we have too many projects that are currently 6.0, 6.0.1 or 6.0.2

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4 G5s, OSx 10.4.11, Final Cut 6.0.2, Kona LH (v5.1)
Xsan: Xserve 2.0 G5, 3GB RAM, 2 7TB Xserve RAIDs, Sanbox 5200
Quantum SDLT600A
decks: Sony HDW-M2000/10 HDCAM, HVR-M10U HDV with HD-Connect, DSR-1500 DVCAM, UVW-1800 BetacamSP
MacBook Pro: 2.33, 2GB RAM, OSx 10.4.11, Final Cut 6.0.2
cameras: Panasonic HVX200, Sony FX1 and A1U, Arri S/B 16mm
skis: Volkl Gotama 183s with 914s and Lange Fluid 120 boots

[J. Tad newberry]

i’ve had the very same problem, on various builds of FCP. yours is not unique, and i have found no workaround.

sorry to be of no help, other than to let you now you’re not alone : )

thanks again!

mh

[Michael Black fcp]

I briefly had this problem last week. In inexplicably went away but it was quite a pain in the ass for a couple of days.

I wish I could tell you what I did. Wished really hard?

[Tom Valens]

Eric –

I have this exact same problem, on both of my systems (FCP 6.0 on G5 dual 2 Gig OSX 10.4.9, and FCP 6.0.2 on Macbook Pro OSX 10.4.11). Strange thing is, when I updated to 6.0.2 on the laptop, the next two bins of clips Reconnected correctly, but all subsequent bins no longer do (absolutely no change to system between bins 2 and later). Sure hoping I can solve this, since I’ll have thousands of clips that I need to reconnect.

Tom Valens
Tamalpais Productions
Forest Knolls, CA

[Mark Raudonis]

I can also confirm that this is NOT a unique problem.

When we updated to 6.02 it seems to have gone away… or maybe we’re just not using that workflow anymore!

Todd,

You may want to pause a minute before definitively stating that someone is having a unique problem. As you can see from the several posts below, clearly others have experienced the same thing. Just because you haven’t experienced it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

Mark

[Todd Reid]

My bad.

[Mark Raudonis] “You may want to pause a minute before definitively stating that someone is having a unique problem.”

if you would have read my post more carefully I clearly used the word “may have”,
“I submit this in order for you to know that you MAY have a unique problem.”
and thereby was definitively NOT stating that he has a unique problem, merely offering it as a possibility.

Clearly the large amount of posters have confirmed that this is a major problem and should be addressed immediately.

Thanks for the condescending comments, I will pause and reflect upon my wicked ways.

[Scott Ellison]

I also have this problem with multiple systems at my facility.

If anyone learns of a fix, then please post it.

3 MacPro Kona 3
1 PowerMac G5 Kona LH
12TB Infortrend RAID

[Eric Hansen]

after dealing with this for awhile now, i’ve come to the following conclusion:

the problem is the new version of Quicktime that adds Apple TV video rental support, i think its 7.4 or 7.4.1. when you capture footage in Final Cut with these versions, it puts a wrapper on the QT file thats different than in previous versions. so if you open a Final Cut project that has clips that were originally logged and captured under a previous version of QT, then it will not correctly connect to the newer version of the QT files. we have this problem all the time because we will capture footage from a log project that was made 6 months ago (or years ago), then pass the footage onto the editor on a different system. in the past, we wouldnt save the log after capture to avoid any possible corruption to the log file (or changes to the log due to the footage being incorrectly captured for various reasons). then the editor will open the old log, reconnect the media, add the clips to a bin in their project, then close the log file without saving it. that doesnt work anymore, so the only solution we have come up with is recapturing the footage under the current version of QT, then saving the log with the connected media, then passing that new log onto the editor. any old shots in the editors project have to be replaced with the new clips that are connected to the new media.

basically everything captured in the last 4 months is being recaptured so its in the new version of QT. thats not a solution to the problem – a solution would be a rewrite of either QT for FCP to correctly identify old QT files – but it is a workaround. another workaround is to replace QT with an older version, but with the speed of our decks i decided to recapture instead of downgrading QT.

hope that helps

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4 G5s, OSx 10.4.11, Final Cut 6.0.2, Kona LH (v5.1)
Xsan: Xserve 2.0 G5, 3GB RAM, 2 7TB Xserve RAIDs, Sanbox 5200
Quantum SDLT600A
decks: Sony HDW-M2000/10 HDCAM, HVR-M10U HDV with HD-Connect, DSR-1500 DVCAM, UVW-1800 BetacamSP
MacBook Pro: 2.33, 2GB RAM, OSx 10.4.11, Final Cut 6.0.2
cameras: Panasonic HVX200, Sony FX1 and A1U, Arri S/B 16mm
skis: Volkl Gotama 183s with 914s and Lange Fluid 120 boots

[Larissa Munck]

Hi,
i’m having the same problem and don’t seem to find a solution.
The last post on this thread was in March, since then has anyone managed to make the reconnect work?

I think maybe the issue is really with QuickTime. I had a previous version of QT and updated to 7.5, then the problem started. I’ve already tried to downgrade QT, but it didn’t work. Any suggestions?

Thanks a lot.

MacPro 3,1
OS X 10.5.1
2x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
8 GB RAM
FCP 6.0.2
QuickTime 7.5 (Leopard)
deck Sony HVR-M15U

Power Mac G5
OS X 10.4.11
Dual 1.8 GHz PowerPC G5
4 GB RAM
FCP 6.0.2
Quicktime 7.5 (Tiger)
deck Sony DSR-40