Very strange bug- all clips in sequence with name of sequence

[Ben Holmes]

I’ve seen this. A reboot appeared to solve it – although I also subsequently trashed prefs just to be sure. The project was fine afterwards as far as I remember.

It does make for an amusing looking timeline…

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[Ben Insler]

I’ve heard about this before but not experienced it or heard of a fix.

Sounds like a preferences issue. Trash em?

If you start a new project and copy footage in from the timeline in question, does the same thing happen? Does it happen on another FCP system when opening the same project?

Ben Insler
Editor
Telemark Films

[Ben Holmes]

I’d also add that the system I was using was on FCP 7.0. Out of interest, what version are you running – have you upgraded to 7.0.1 yet?

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[Tom Wolsky]

Update to 7.0.1. Make sure there isn’t a freeze frame at the beginning of the sequence.

All the best,

Tom

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[David Fortin]

This just happened to me. Running 7.0.1.
I shut down, rebooted and trashed preferences. Still all the same names.

I did have a freeze frame as the first clip. So I got rid of that. But the names still were the same.

So I trashed preferences again (after removing the freeze frame as the first clip), shut down, rebooted… no change.

Has anyone else figured out how to get the clip names back?

David

[Tom Wolsky]

Removing the freeze frame won’t change the names back. You still have to redo the edit. Removing or replacing the freeze simply prevents it from happening.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[David Fortin]

OK. Thanks Tom.

Because of some tight deadlines, I will have to continue as is.
If I don’t re-edit, am I correct in thinking that the footage won’t re-connect if the files are taken offline?

My RAID is pretty empty, so I can leave the footage on it for the time being.

Thanks for getting back to me on this. Although it wasn’t too nice to have this freaky thing happen, it was great to search and find not only people who had the same problem, but others who had answers to it.

I love this site.

David