timeline clips have lost relationship to master clips

[Paula Zorgdrager]

Just to add to that:
– have tried reconnecting all clips in the sequence, no change.
– only certain clips on the sequence are doing this, I suspect these were the ones that were assembled by the assistant in another suite. Any new clips I have cut in seem to behave correctly.

[John Pale]

[paula Zorgdrager] “- only certain clips on the sequence are doing this, I suspect these were the ones that were assembled by the assistant in another suite. Any new clips I have cut in seem to behave correctly. “

If you drag or copy/paste a sequence from a different project (e.g. from another system) the clips will be independent…they will have no affiliation to the original master clips, even if they are actually identical by reel and timecode. No way to fix that, except to overwrite the same clips from your project replacing them.

[Paula Zorgdrager]

thanks for your response John. As I understand the master clips were pasted in from another project but not the sequence, it was only ever cut from it’s own rushes, if that makes sense. Also it’s happened on one of my projects seemingly ‘overnight’. Where the only thing that could possibly have changed is it may have been opened on another machine, but not saved.
Bit of a mystery, I will have to figure out where it’s happening exactly. Bugger that reconnecting doesn’t fix it!

[Bret Williams]

I’m lost as to the whole flow of things. But it’s obvious what has happened. A clip only has a master clip relationship to a bin clip within it’s own project. So if clips were copied or pasted or edited on a copy of the project then pasted back or some sort of combination like that, then they lose their connection. Reconnecting only has to do with media, not clips. Someone would have to open your project file and do the work.

I think you’re best off making new master clips if you must have them in the bin. Then just delete the duplicates that aren’t connected to the media in your timeline. Reconnecting master clips would be a neat feature, but a manual one. Since multiple clips can reference the same media, there’s really no way for FCP to determine which is a master clip.

The anamorphic setting is set in the bin, so I guess if you don’t have a bin clip, then it’s never going to remember.

And the whole master clip thing has only been around since version 3 or 4. Not 8 years. 🙂

[Paula Zorgdrager]

Thankyou Bret, all makes sense, I guess there must have been some saving/copying/pasting by someone somewhere that I’ve not been aware of… Also I guess with projects being ‘mobile’ in theory, around the X-serve, things can get screwy. That’s why I thought it may have been a folder permissions things.
I’ll persevere through this ep. anyway 🙂

[Peter Wiggins]

Try making a new bin, then drag all of your clips off the timeline and into that bin and then save.
See if that fixes the matchframe problem

Peter

[Carsten Orlt]

It doesn’t need to be someone else 🙂

I’m working in a single project now for about half a year and some clips have lost their master link (shift-f not working)

Today I had the odd thing of a render file linking to the wrong media.

FCP sometimes has some odd things happening under the hood 🙂

Carsten

[Paula Zorgdrager]

phew so I’m possibly not going crazy!
One of my projects that had lost it’s linking a few days ago.. is now back to normal again. Super weird. I’m still not convinced it isn’t OS or Xserve related.
Carsten – are you working off a media server?

cheers
pz

[Carsten Orlt]

Nope, local SATA raids.

The clips that I have lost connections for never recovered.

It might be different reasons for the same symptom?

Because only roughly 0.1 percent of all my clips have lost the link and it hasn’t happened for a long time I’m not concerned.

Carsten

[David Neumann]

Hi

How does one overwrite the files? I posted a separate question today Feb 26 related to your comment. Could you please read that post? Any advice would be appreciated

Cheers

David