Send to Shake deletes / moves media

[Shane Ross]

Where are you saving it to? When you send it to Shake and make the composition it asks you to set a destination. Is the file no longer in that location? Is it in the trash?

Shane

Alokut Productions
http://www.lfhd.net

[Zak Mussig]

Shane,
First of all, thanks for the help.
For now (I’ve just been testing and getting used to the workflow) all of my placeholders/renders for Shake are in the same folder. These QT files are all that are in that folder, and they’re right as rain. The issue is that the master clips for the clips in the timeline that I sent to Shake go offline, and aren’t there anymore to reconnect to. Poof. Gone. The first time I assumed it was some weird thing, or maybe I’d done something out of the ordinary. I was just going to recapture the clip and get on with the project. I asked our production director and was told we don’t have access to the source footage anymore… not good. This is an old project that has apparently been put back on the front burner just before I started here in May. It’s a lot of sailing footage that needs a lot of Shake smoothcam love. I really need to be able to do this without worrying that I’m going to systematically delete all of my footage. I’m going to back everything up tonight when I leave to avoid any potential tragedy… I just really want to know what is happening here.

Sorry. That was much more than you’d asked me. I just figured that while I was posting I could add some more details / shameless pleas.

Thanks,
Zak

[Shane Ross]

So you’ve used SPOTLIGHT to locate the files and they are no longer on the system? And not in the capture folder where they belong?

I have not heard of this. Why don’t you have access to the original tapes?

Shane

Alokut Productions
http://www.lfhd.net

[Zak Mussig]

Yeah… it’s a dilly of a pickle. I don’t have access to the tapes because they were shot on DigiBeta and captured as DV right off of those tapes without being dubbed to DV. We no longer (if we ever did) own a digibeta deck at our company, so without an expensive rental it isn’t even my decision whether or not to pay for, I’m not getting at that footage.
The more I find out about how this was done up until I was handed a firewire drive with a project file and DV media on it the more questions I have than really logical answers.
At this point I just need to make sure my media doesn’t keep going bye bye. I set everything to back up before I left for the night, so nothing else should just vanish forever. I know it sounds crazy, but these media files are just straight up gone. They say they’re offline. I tell it to locate them. The file is just not there, even though the others are still right where they were.

Thanks for your thoughts so far… please let me know if you think of anything else.

Zak

[Captain Mench]

The ONLY thing I can think of — now that I’ve read your posts is that maybe somehow you named your placeholder move the same as the clip of the original file??? And kept them in the same folder???

I’d hate to think that you ended up overwriting the original master clip with the shake render…

Think that could have happened?

I usually save my Sent to Shake movies in a seperate folder under each project in my capture scratch folders… but NOT in the same folder as my captured media.

Hmmm.

CaptM

[Zak Mussig]

Captain,
I set the names of the placeholders to be more specific to the sequence it was in and what was being done to it than the file it was based. So rather than render out “boats racing shake.mov”, it would be more like “Sequence 8 stabilize 2.mov”. They’re also in a subfolder all by themselves, so I don’t think that’s a possibility. I’m worried that fear, ignorance, and constant backups are going to be with me all through this edit.

Thanks for all of the thoughts… any others are also greatly appreciated,
Zak