Reconnecting Media – one clip at a time

[Andy Lancaster]

im having the same problem

[Eric Hansen]

i am currently working at 3 different facilities. i have not encountered this problem in awhile. all the facilities are currently at FCP 6.0.3 and various versions of Quicktime. i had suspected at the time that the problem may have been the version of Quicktime, either 7.4 or 7.4.1 that changed the way the clips were read by Final Cut. at that one particular facility we recaptured the footage so it was in a newer version of QT and that seemed to work. in the other facilities that i am at, all processes from logging to capture to edit are being done on the same version of Quicktime and on Final Cut 6.0.3. i so don’t know if Apple fixed the problem in newer versions of QT or FCP or not.

i know thats not an answer, but i can tell you that i have not had this problem since about a month after my last post. at that point all the old problematic QT files had been recaptured (unpaid interns rock!) and the old FCP log files were resaved in FCP 6.0.3. so my advice is to get to the current versions of QT and FCP and see if you’re still having reconnect issues. otherwise you may have to recapture as we did.

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[Joseph Donnelly]

I’ve had the same problem, though with .aif files mostly. Another work around, rather than recapturing material, is to import the problem files into FCP and re-export them to the same format and file name using the export queue. Once you do that, everything should reconnect via the relative path.

[Tal Amiran]

I had the same problem and what I did was to simply restart my computer. I haven’t changed anything and it just went back to re linking all the clips which were highlighted in my browser for re connection.

I appreciate it might not always be the solution but it did work for me.