“Searching for movie data in file….”

[Gary Olsen]

solved this one!
tho it sure wasn’t quick

I MOVED media — WITH THE media manager
and all went to hell!
the media I moved manually — just dragging the files — oddly turned out fine. but he MM-moved stuff — disaster
now I’m getting “searching for movie data in file…”
over and over
aaaaaaaa!
wont load!
takes forever!
30 min!
(feature length movie)

after SCOURING the internets (finding nooothing! wasted a day and a half!)
I realized any files that were doing this would have to be trashed and then reconnected.

SO: once fcp finnnnnally loaded after literally 40+ “cancels”,
I realized it was always alerting me about the AUDIO-half of the movie

and yes, my files are split — audio and video in separate folders
AUDIO CAPTURE SCRATCH
and CAPTURE SCRATCH for video

so then:
in fcp highlighted the clips in the timeline,
said shift+D
and told the computer to move files to trash.
(the computer was annoyed about supposedly separated files — it claimed to “not know” where the audio file was — tho it was in the same place as ever ( I think MM moved the video file and NOT the audio) so it did nothing.)

then: I put the video file and audio file (separate) on the desktop
opened with QT7 (works best) and then QT7 did the same thing! “searching for movie data”!
then I helped it find the audio file and then saved as a
self contained movie

opened up fCP again and fcp didn’t make me wait forever!
it just assumed I didn’t care about those files I’d “deleted”

then I reconnected the files in the timeline to the new “self contained movies” (that had both sound an nd vid
and voila! success!

[Jonah Maddox]

YES! I totally am having this problem now, it was fine this morning and now it is not. I opened an older auto saved project and the same problem. spending hours now reconnecting one by one r3d files. .

Did you ever find a solution?

[Rob Frenette]

I never REALLY found out what was causing the problem. My solution was to stop editing using proxy files. I would recommend finding a different/better workflow. I bought a RedRocket card and render all the footage to ProRes. Others use Premiere, where you can cut with the R3Ds natively. The proxy files were causing me too much of a headache.

[Lucy Moon]

Aha! The same. Opening an empty project was still causing “looking for…” errors. It was the thumbnail cache for me. Once deleted it pops open as it ought.

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