-
Restoring w/o having to reconnect media?
I usually have lots of filters on the clips in my projects, and when I leave my sequences open to render overnight FCP usually is a spinning beach ball in the morning. I try to restore to the last good point from overnight, but then most of my media clips need to be reconnected, which of course kills the link to the rendered media, and I’m right back where I started with a completely unrendered red timeline.
Any suggestions? I’m running 6.0.4 on a octo 3.2 w/ 20 GB RAM, 8800GT. FCP is the only app left open when I leave, and I fixed the permissions before leaving yesterday, but to no avail.
-
4 Replies
-
Post what you are using for a scratch disk, and also post what format your working with. Check to see that the drives are set to never spin down… that might part of the problem.
Losing links to media is what is pretty strange here… never seen it do that even if the render crashed.
Make sure the drives are all formatted Mac OS extended…
Also, you needn’t reconnect an entire sequence if only some of the clips have gone offline. Just select the offline clips, then right click to reconnect them and not the ones which are rendered and need no reconnection.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO, CD’s
-
Hmm, I wonder why I’m loosing links to my media with Restore, I’ve been assuming that it’s just due to Final Cut’s poor media manager.
I’m using a Kona 3, and my media drive is an Xraid setup as RAID-50. The drives are set to never spin down, and they’re formatted as Extended (Journaled). I remember reading a long heated thread about whether to use Extended or Extended Journaled with FCP media drives, but I don’t remember what the decisive conclusion was.
This project happens to be D1, with the sequences set as Uncompressed RGB.
-
Hmm, just re-rendering the sequences now, and I got an “out of memory” error, maybe that’s what’s causing the spinning beach ball overnight. But I’d still like to figure out why I keep loosing the links to my media when restoring projects, it happens on other projects too.
-
Only thing I can think of since this isn’t a common problem, is that your install or system setup is getting in the way of things working properly. I’ve never seen the behavior you’re reporting here.
If you’re OS wasn’t installed cleanly, that could be the problem for starters. If you just clicked on the “upgrade” button going from Tiger to Leopard or from FCS 1 to FCS 2 that’s likely part of the scenario here.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO, CD’s
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up