why does some media keep disconnecting in my event?

[Mario Gaoa]

Hey Jean,

Did you ever figure this out?

Mars

[Adam Ekroth]

I am also curious if you ever got this figured out. I have 9 cards of footage that I have imported multiple times, only to close the app, re open it and find them “offline”.

I can repopulate them by opening the import window and clicking on the folders one by one but it seems to have to reanalyze the footage every time. it is extremely frustrating.

[Jenn Lindsay]

Hi Adam!

Well, I think what Jeremy Garchow and I got to in the end is that I ended up starting a new library and re-imported everything fresh. And I repopulated the clips in the original library and copy/pasted them to the new library and the keywording copied, which had been my primary concern, not to lose all that keywording work. I didn’t ever figure out the cause of the issue because I had to move on. But I never had the problem again with the new library.

I’ll tag Jeremy in the other thread and see if he can help more.

Glad you asked and I hope we can figure this out!!
Jenn

http://www.JennLindsay.com
iMac 27-inch, 3.5 GHz Intel Core i7. 4GB GPU.
FCPX

[Jenn Lindsay]

Dear Jeremy,
Would you mind going to the new posts at the end of this thread and seeing if you might be able to help this guy? Thank you very much!
Jenn Lindsay

http://www.JennLindsay.com
iMac 27-inch, 3.5 GHz Intel Core i7. 4GB GPU.
FCPX

[Mark Smith]

Just out of curiousity are the SD cards you are importing from a Panasonic camera?

[Craig Alan]

This may be way off but have you tried modifying the storage locations and consolidating all the media to those locations even if they are all to the library which you might have done already by default?
Also have you done a finder search for the missing files to find out where they are?
And reset preferences for FC just in the likely event that something got messed up.

Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic HPX250P, FCP X 10.3, teach video production in L.A.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Hi, Jenn.

I think you explained it perfectly for Adam. ☺

I don’t know why this happens. My guess is that FCPX was quit before it was done importing, and then it somehow loses it’s way and can’t recover. This should totally be able to be recovered.

Making a new library, and reconnecting the clips in the old library, to the new set of imported media seems to be the a good way to fix it for now.

Jeremy

[Adam Ekroth]

So I think I may have solved my issue. I noticed my clip info was showing my proxies as online, but the original media was not available (little red triangle). When I clicked the “locate in finder” next to the media available it was pathed to a folder above the actual folder the media was living in. These are sony slog clips and there are 3 subfolders, one of which contains the media and meta data, and it was pointing to the folder above the media/meta data folder.

When I originally imported these, I did not select individual clips, but rather the 6 parent folders that housed my media. I think this is where things when wrong, since FCP was skipping some folders to get to my media, thus leaving it offline when I opened fcp.

So I did a few test re-imports by selecting the actual media files, not folders, and instead of keeping files in place I chose to copy files to library (my media and library all live on the same external, someone tell me if this is bad practice) . Now when I close the application and reopen those clips are online, and it says I have original, optimized and proxy media available.