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“Unable to Load Effects”
This is a new one on me…and when it rains it pours. The Gremlins are looming large today…
When I pull a project from last week, in which the clips were moved to a different drive but have been successfully reconnected, after FCP finishes finding all these reconnections it gives me this window: “Unable to Load Effects” and it is regarding a movie clip, not an “effect”, which is a bit confusing to me. in three years of FCP use, I have never seen this warning window before. For some reason it is unable to load this movie which was a Motion project that was rendered to a QT movie, and used successfully before in this project. Additionally, this rendered QT movie had not been moved from it’s original place, so it is even further confusing why this would be happening.
thanks again!
mh
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It was the “master templates” that i had been using in the project were not being seen by FCP in their proper folder. i took out and put them in again and then they showed up…but without the video clips that i had attached them to. this was the first time i had tried using Motion templates within FCP (accessed by the tab in the lower right corner of the viewer. the templates i made had drop zones in them so i could drop clips into them in FCP. unfortunately, when FCP could not see these templates after my full re-install this past week, putting the templates back in their proper folder made them accessible in FCP, but i had to re-attach/insert the clips into all the drop zones. a rather tedious process, but fortunately i had save a DVD with an earlier version which showed me which clips to use.
this seems like one of those “good news bad news” things. i liked the ease of use of being able to access a Motion template inside of FCP and to be able to drop clips into the drop zones there, but on the other hand, just creating the same thing in Motion, and then rendering out a QT of it, and then using the QT in FCP has its advantages, too.
thanks again!
mh
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