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Searching for movie in data file
I started editing my movie with two hard drives, both containing some of the Panasonic P2/Quicktime files. My Macbook is slow and only takes USB. The hard drives can use Firewire 400. I wanted to start working on one hard drive using Firewire 800 on a different computer.
I have the film in several Final Cut Pro files because I could only hook up one hard drive at a time. On Monday I opened “Act II” and it spent from Monday morning until I returned Tuesday morning “Searching for movie in data file.” Then I opened up “Act III” yesterday. It spent Tuesday morning until I returned this morning “Searching for movie in data file.” I thought, “Great. Now that I’ve gotten it all done, now I’ll combine theses files.”
So I opened up “Act II” again. It has spent all morning once again “Searching for movie in data file.” for the same file it did on Monday. So I’m three days in and have yet to actually start working. If it needs 24 hours to do this every time I want to open a file I’ll never actually work on it.
Will this eventually connect these files and I can start working? Do I have to go back to the two slower hard drives?
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That error means that you have REFERERENCE movies in your project. Are you using Raylight or something to make QT reference movies to the original P2 files? If so, you need to have all the media connected at the same time. Can’t you daisy chain the drives? Firewire allows for that.
Shane
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Yes, I used Raylight. I suppose I could daisy chain drives, but that’d mean working with Firewire 400 instead of Firewire 800. If I won’t be able to work with the files on the single faster hard drive, then this sounds like a good solution. Should I give up on that hard drive now and just go with the two slower ones?
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Have to go with the two slower drives if you want this to work. And DVCPRO HD is perfectly editable via FW400. I did it for more than a couple projects.
Time to get a better machine….
Shane
GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def
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