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Searching for movie data
Hi all,
I have an issue that I did extensive research on, searching most all posts I could find, but I seem to have a different version of the problem. In fact, I debated even posting the question at all, because its more an annoyance now, but I fear it might cause a problem down the road and I’d rather nip it in the bud.
When opening Final Cut (6.0.6) on Leopard (10.5.8), I get the dreaded “searching for movie data” error. However, it lists the name of master files in capture scratch, normally always “searching for movie data in file ‘master tape 1.mov'”. This is my most common name of a file, so I don’t know if its looking for separate files or the same one. This first started when I was moving files from a external drive from someone else in which all scratch disks were pointing to a separate folder (as in Project 1>audio render,capture scratch,render files)to the more stable way of pointing final cut to one folder and letting it sort out capture and so on by the name. I converted the file structure from one to the other.
Now, I am getting this error message. I thought it was just a byproduct of the file structure mistake, but now I open a pretty fresh project (as I have only 4 captured tapes, and thats literally it), and I’m getting the message. It eventually figures itself out and opens without any problems, for now. Now, its giving me this message for every project I open.
What I’ve done:
1. Rebuilt permissions for osx using Onyx.
2. Trashed prefs.
3. Deleted render files with applicable projects using render manager. The most recent project however has no sequences, let alone anything to render.
4. Restarted the computer, ejected and restarted external hard drive, etc.
5. Made master clips offline and re-linked them.The original HD is not attached, but no project should be looking for it, and in the case of the newer project, nothing ever existed on that HD in the first place.
I hope I’ve included as much info as needed. From most of my research, I’ve found this error is most often issues with render files, or issues with reference files. My newer project has no files to render, and I make it a habit to never use QT references, because of the havoc it could cause. It would be fantastic if this was a simple setting I’m missing, but I just don’t know at this point.
Thank you all!
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3 Replies
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Try this…find your caches…like the waveform and clips cache…any of them. I’m not in front of my machine so I can’t remember what they’re called. Had something similar and deleted them and everything webt back to normal. It’ll have to rebuild the caches when you re-open the projects again but it only takes a second. I think the thumbnail cache is what worked for me. Just thought you might try it! Lemme know if it works!
Tony Brittan
Owner – Island Shore Productions -
Hi Tony! Thanks for the reply!
I went into my FCP docs and cleaned out my thumbnail cache and waveform cache files. Got an interesting result actually. It did indeed work, for all but one project that was originally on the older external HD. When I opened that project up, I’d get the error message, plus it would now happen for all projects. Trash the thumbnail caches again, and it would go back to normal. It seems like this issue is linked to something bad in one project, like it ruins the caches. Perhaps it is corrupted somehow?
My edit rig:
Mac Pro (2007 version)
Leopard 10.5.8
Quad Core Intel Xeon, 10GB ram
ATI Radeon X1900 Graphics Card -
Glad it worked! Yea, same thing here. Happened to a particular project when I deleted some render files and some other stuff from it. I didn’t use the render manager and it messed everything up. I kinda ended up finding that answer by trial and error so when I saw your problem I had to help out.
Mine was a commercial I did for a drug rehab in Florida and they’ve had a couple of revisions. It seems that everytime I have to open that project I have to go back and delete the caches again. At least we know now!
Have a good one!
Tony Brittan
Owner – Island Shore Productions
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