Reconnecting Media Question

[David Bogie]

It would have been better to have used Media Manager to create a copy of your project and all associated media but you would have needed adequate storage to make all of the copies.

Read the section in the manuals on reconnecting, it’s pretty easy to do. Once you locate one file, you have the option to reconnect everything in that path.

However, if you have moved your media by copying it and then deleting the originals, some of it will never reconnect and you will have to reimport it. I doubt any of your renders will reconnect (mine rarely do) but you could get lucky.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Steve Eisen]

If the media is all in one location, then reconnect your media, select files manually and make sure Reconnect All Files in Relative Path is selected.

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[Ed Dooley]

Have you tried closing out of FCP, then reopening it? Whenever I move stuff around, the next time I open FCP I get a message saying, er…. I forget what it says, but the gist is “the media is moved or offline, do you want to reconnect it?” In my case it’s usually because I deleted a file intentionally, so I don’t choose reconnect. Just a thought.
Ed