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  • Toubleshooting: missing media clips

    Posted by Mark Suszko on September 17, 2008 at 10:00 pm

    Brand new system, one week old, been working fine. I came back after a day’s absence and FCP tells me some of my clips took a walk and didn’t leave a forwarding address; restore or reconnect yields nothing. The autosave vault is empty.

    I can see in my scratch drive the .mov file I want is there. But when FCP tries to play it or restore or import it, it says it can’t find Sequence2-FIN-00000026, and that without that sequence, it can’t play the .mov.

    Searched all the drives for that sequence. In the trash is a bunch of sequences, but not that one, the one before it and after it are in trash, but not the one I want.

    I have the mac pro self-scheduled to boot and turn off at 8AM and 5:30 PM but the external RAID is always on. Rebooting the external changed nothing.

    How would you go about restoring this mov file? Is there another way to crack and re-save the already-done but unplayable .mov file and save me an afternoon’s worth of re-dos?

    Any suggestions joyfully considered.

    stats:

    3ghz Quad Core Intel Xenon
    32 GB 800 mhz DD2 25B-Dram
    OSX 10.5.4
    FCP 6.04
    Blood pressure 50/90

    David Roth weiss replied 16 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  • David Roth weiss

    September 17, 2008 at 10:24 pm

    [Mark Suszko] “I can see in my scratch drive the .mov file I want is there. But when FCP tries to play it or restore or import it, it says it can’t find Sequence2-FIN-00000026, and that without that sequence, it can’t play the .mov.”

    That typically indicates that you created reference file, reimported that file into FCP, and later made a change to the sequence from which that file was created, thus effectively making that ref. file invalid.

    David Roth Weiss
    Director/Editor
    David Weiss Productions, Inc.
    Los Angeles

    POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

    A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.

  • Mark Suszko

    September 18, 2008 at 12:30 am

    OK, I’ll file that with Egon’s warning about crossing the particle streams… 🙂

    Seriously, we’ve established a diagnosis, (pilot error) but is there any fix? Can I for instance re-name the sequence immediately previous to the name of the missing reference and then see if it re-renders? Or is there any other “trick” to recovering or reconstructing that sequence?

  • Arnie Schlissel

    September 18, 2008 at 1:18 am

    The problem is that FCP is looking for a missing render file called Sequence2-FIN-00000026.

    My guess is that you exported a non self contained reference movie, then imported that back into FCP, and the missing render file is needed by this movie to play back.

    You are, IOW, somewhat hosed.

    Arnie
    Post production is not an afterthought!
    https://www.arniepix.com/

  • David Roth weiss

    September 18, 2008 at 1:39 am

    [Arnie Schlissel] “You are, IOW, somewhat hosed.”

    Yes, I tend to agree with Arnie. The database in FCP is at its very worst when dealing with render files.

    Of course, the lesson here is, when exporting anything of value, make it a self contained file. Only use ref. files for down and dirty temp. encodes for Compressor and the like.

    David Roth Weiss
    Director/Editor
    David Weiss Productions, Inc.
    Los Angeles

    POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

    A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.

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