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Sequence/Clip Media Start – End changed
I am in a very urgent situation.
Working on a feature length project and today after opening 2 sequences I was working on yesterday I had to relink media, because my scratch disks were not connected.
While relinking, final cut pop up says that some clips’ media start & end has changed , continue with relinking or cancel. I had to continue work so I went on. Alas, now i am in front of a nightmare!
Both sequencies have been altered. In some areas the edits look the same but the content is different, in other areas cuts have been totaly removed.
please help.
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Do you have multiple media files with the same name? Like UNTITLED, UNTITLED-1…or Clip #1, Clip #2? If so…that can cause this.
Don’t save. Quit and re-open with your drive turned on. Or if you did save…open a recent autosaved file with the drive connected.
Shane
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Thank you Shane.
Most of my files have the same name “name_of_shootingplace_date” with a numerical increase (001,002,003) etc. It would be very hard to distinguish them with another method of naming.I did hit save, unfortunatelly, and after that it all started. I have multiple backups of the projects and autosaves and backups for the autosaves. I have opened several of them but nothing changes.
It seems that whatever verion of the saved,autosaved, backedup version I open, they are all linked improperly to my scratch disk material.
Is this undoable?
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All the backups link to this wrong? That’s odd.
Shane
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I am afraid it is not just odd, it’s a disaster!
The project I work on is given evey day a given name, so every project version has its own aurosaved backups.
I have opened most of the autosaved versions of todays and yesterdays project name as well as the backed up projects (of today and yesterday) . No luck. The sequences in question – or the clips in them- point to the wrong raw material.
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[Nikos Papadopoulos] “No luck. The sequences in question – or the clips in them- point to the wrong raw material.
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No. The sequence consists of pro res 422 LT files and some dv material.
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I opened one of the versions and made the clips offline through the “modify” menu- make offline.
Though I could reconnect them as they were originaly but that did not work either.
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Import one clip….from scratch. Look at it compared to the offline version you have of that clip in the Browser. Anything different? Timecode? Start/stop? Duration? Name? Reel number?
Shane
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same duration, same start-same finish.
regarding timecode:
no in and out setmedia start, media end have some properties ( but cannot be seen through finder/quicktime)
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IN and OUT are the points you MARK when you make selections in the clip, so those don’t matter.
But you then try to reconnect to that clip and get an error? And it isn’t the same footage as before?
Shane
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