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very weird ” is missing
This is the first time its happened to me in years of FCP use.
Someone unplugged the hard drive at home while FCP was still running (not the first time that some kind of screw up like that happens). No big deal, I thought. I mean, I did the digitizing myself, so I gave every clip a clip name, a reel name, and so forth.
BUT…
When I try to reconnect, it tells me” is missing
I double-checked: all the clips still have the correct clip name, the correct reel name… And the clip name does match the name of the clip in the folder.
Whats going on????
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Can you play back the “missing” clip in QuickTime? Can you bring the file into FCP using the import command and will it play?
I’d run Disk Warrior on that drive. It’s possible the directory got only slightly scrambled by the inadvertent unplugging.
It happens. I have a cat that likes to unplug things.
debe
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Can you play back the “missing” clip in QuickTime? Can you bring the file into FCP using the import command and will it play?
The answer is yes and yes.
WHat I did was just go back to an earlier autosave. So the problem was really simple to solve.
I was however, made a little uneasy by what happened
Thanks for the idea, I hadnt thought about diskwarrior/
But this doesnt seem like a HDD issue… -
OK we’ve just had exactly the same problem: We were working on a project with about 80% of it’s media offline. I brought in some of the media and went to reconnect them to the clips in the browser (as I have done without a problem several times recently) and the reconnect box instead of listing the offline files displayed just one line of text saying [” is missing] (square brackets not included), and FCP is unable to successfully identify the files by searching. I checked the item properties for a sample of these clips and found that the source field for them was also displaying [” is missing].
Somehow FCP seems to have forgotten the names of all the offline files, although the clip names are still intact. the online files seem to be OK. I wondered if this could hapen by telling it to FORGET FILES when loading up a project? But still, i should be able to reconnect them later on I assume and right now it won’t let me unless i do them one by one manually matching the filenames.
Luckily I had a backup on another machine, but this is worrying because it seems like illogical and unpredictble behaviour. Has anyone else got any idea what’s causing it.
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Hello
I have just had the same problem where by source files have been moved around say to another hard drive and fcp says they are offline but also ‘forgets’ what the source file is called. In the source file attribute of the item properties it simply says ” is missing So it has no link to rejoin the clip in fcp back up to the source file.People have had the same problem a few months ago and fixed it by using an earlier saved project file. But I am wondering why fcp does this and if there is a way to fix it by recreating the link rather than taking steps backwards and using autosave vault?
Cheers,
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@ntz Thanks a lot! I had the same problem and the going back to an earlier autosave really saved me a lot of time…
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