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I don’t have Thunderbolt, so I haven’t been able to experiment with a set up like this. but you’re saying your edit stations have 2 Lacie 2Big drives (each) and are using Apple Disk Utility to create a RAID-0 across the 2 2Big drives. correct?
can i ask why? do you need that much speed? what codecs are you editing with? i’m wondering if the Apple Disk Utility software RAID is unstable – i’ve had issues when trying to create a software RAID with external hard drives. can you just run the 2 2Big drives as individual drives?
i’m not saying this is your problem, especially if you’re not having any other issues. but to me, this is a red flag. i only use software RAIDs on internal drives. and even then, fairly rarely. I’ve heard good things about SoftRAID, but it’s been years since I’ve used it.
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Eric Hansen
Production Workflow Designer / Consultant / Colorist / DIT
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That is correct. Honestly it’s raided like that because that’s how the boss wanted it. I mentioned if we really need THAT much speed and he seems to really think so. We do currently have over 3TB of footage and he’s planning on going out to shoot more for a small doc we’re working on. And we’re using Apple Pro Res 422.
It didn’t seem really needed to me, but that age old saying: Boss gets what he wants – he foot the bill for them.
Although we haven’t had an issue at all with this set up and they have worked very fast. So I’m not sure if that is the issue or not as the second editor has the same set up and hasn’t had a problem.
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I just had this happen to me. I had to spread some files to a second drive and all that media went offline with “unspecified file path” and I could not relink even though I knew exactly where the media was and could see it in the relink media window. FCP just refused to recognize those files.
I went back to the last autosaved project and everything relinked perfectly. Some kind of crazy corruption to the project file.
Paul Whishaw
PDVpro.com
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I’ve had this happen a few times when moving from desktop to laptop and back to desktop.. That’s what I get for taking work on vacation!
I’ve had the most luck if I take the good project and do a SELECT ALL and then export an XML of the whole project.
Then on the target computer do IMPORT / XML and make a new project and then do the relink.
Hope that helps someone.
Andrew Wilson
WestView Digital Video & Design
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I had this issue before on a big project.
As stated elsewhere in this thread, you can’t delete or modify/replace media that is in use when someone has a project open that is linked to that media.
The next time that project will be opened chances are some/all media will be offline with an unspecified path.
And it’s not always the modified media, most of the time is seems completely random.
K.
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