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Timeline is dropping video tracks
Here’s a very disturbing and puzzling issue. I have FCP Studio installed and have been editing away on my documentary. For whatever it’s worth in addition, I have a dual 1.42 MDD, 1TB storage, 1gig of ram and am running with a new video card (Radeon 9600).
I made an unfortunate discovery a fwe months ago when my video began to spontaneously disappear from the timeline. Thinking that I had too much information built out in one single sequence (I was editing the entire 2hr film on one sequence) I decided to break the film up into 5 smaller sequences and approach it like that. That seemed to work for about a week until I had created about 50 separate sequences. Some were tangental “sketches” others were copies of previous sequences which contained new ideas, etc.
Then it started happening again. SO I went ahead and trashed all the sequences that weren’t worth keeping, thinking that maybe I was overloading the program with too much information. Seems to have worked UNTIL…
Again, for no good reason my first sequence in the film booted up the other day missing about half of the video track. UGH!!!!!!!!!!
The rub is this: the audio tracks are intact and if you pass the scrub bar back and forth the video appears in the viewer. BUT, hit play and the viewer is black screen with audio.
I have done a quick search on previous posts to see is this has been discussed in the past, which it has. The issue though was related to FCP 4.1.
ANYONE have a thought or experience with this issue??????
Thanks in advance.
Carlos
J. Carlos Peinado, Quechee, VT
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the single most common cause is trying to use rendered media in new sequences. You might be using reference movies or nests and later alter or toss the upstream source. Then the Render Manager decides the render footage is no longer needed and discards it. You probably need to export movies and reimport them as new, self-contained clips.
However, this is more often accompanied by the red Media Offline warning plate, not a complete disappearance.
Sorry, best I can think of at the moment.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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