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Relinking FCP reference files, ARGH
Sigh.
Used a bunch of reference files from FCP to bring to my AE proj. In midst of working on it had a hard drive failure. Backed up hard drive, reformatted, brought all data back to he same hard drive, named exactly the same way.
Now I get the interminable “Searching for data in movie file” error endlessly, takes more than 10 minutes for my project to open. Once they are all relinked, even if I save the project as new name, etc, if I close and open it again, I’m back to the same 10+ minute search. EVEN THOUGH THEY JUST RELINKED!!!
Is there any way to PERMANENTLY relink these ref files to their media? Re-exporting them is going to be a @%#$ nightmare.
Please tell me there’s a way…
Tom
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Great idea – I did try that, however. I thought that was a no-brainer, but no luck.
BUT – thinking now…maybe I will dupe and rename the REF files themselves and try to relink + Replace File.
Have moved on to work temporarily in a project that actually works – will try the rename + relink tonight, if anyone has any other ideas please keep them coming…
Thanks,
TD
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I never use reference movies anymore. Export self contained.
bogiesan
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Worked like a charm, wasn’t sure how to solve this problem. Thanks much for the suggestion. I changed the footage file names after I started a project and AE was looking for the files with the old names. Thank you!!
David Robillard
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