yikes has this happened to anyone ?

[Shane Ross]

This was a bug that occurred in earlier versions of FCP 6, and had something to do with either corrupt media, missing media or media that was there but that you didn’t have access to due to some permissions error. This should have been addressed with FCP 6.0.3.

But you said you opened it and it reverted to an OLDER version of the project? I don’t understand. With that error people couldn’t even open the project…not at all. Never heard of behaviour like this.

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[Bob Flood]

Arty

it sounds like you might have accidently done a Project Revert?
(although why it opened a project from 2 weeks ago is odd)

If so just close the project, go into your Autosave vault, and open the one with the most recent date!

(You did have your Autosave on didnt you? At least once an hour?)

if you answered yes, try recovering the most recent version and see if you get the same error, if so try going one version earlier and so on. and you may want to upgrade to .3

hope this helps

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[Steven Gonzales]

You must have daily backups of the project file. Get a flash drive and make a copy to it every day.

You can even create another email for yourself, and archive and attach the project to an email, and send it to yourself every day.

[Arty Gold]

thanks guys !

well i did autosave it so i was able to get back to where i was going too…

a few things..

1) i really can’t figure out what happened…i think that what really happened was the project and client have been really easy and smooth to work with…so i think the edit gods said let’s test his mettle….

2) when you say back up your project file to a flash drive
are you talking merely of the file you actually click to get into it ? not the entire project with all of it’s contents correct ?

[Bret Williams]

just the project file. Autosave vault is great, but not if your whole system drive goes down.

[Steven Gonzales]

If you have enough drive space, you could back up all your media. I usually work on features, so once I have all the media, I make a backup to hard drives and keep it in another location.

But the usual presumption is that your original tapes could be recaptured if disaster strikes. Your work (how you put that media together) is represented in the project files. I actually keep one for every day (they are not that big) in case I have to go back to any particular version.

[Arty Gold]

just one more dumb question than

so i should be doing a “save as” and keeping a day to day type of log as opposed to just saving over the same file ?

what i’ve been doing is making a duplicate copy of the project file for safety…but i suppose that’s not doing any good?

damn that’s 2 questions

[David Roth weiss]

[arty gold] “what i’ve been doing is making a duplicate copy of the project file for safety…but i suppose that’s not doing any good?”

Arty,

That’s exactly what you need to be doing. Doing a “save as” gets more people into trouble than you know, because invariably they forget which version is which.

Here are my security measures for FCP projects and data, not media:

1. I save every FCP project file to a single directory on the system drive.

2. I copy that directory to a thumb drive, to a second drive on my computer, and to another computer across the network every week.

3. And, I now use Time Machine as the ultimate mindless backup of all data.

4. I clone my system drive using Carbon Copy Cloner every time before installing an update.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[Arty Gold]

thanks everyone for all the advice !

i spend sooooo much time trying to be the best editor and learning the best techniques…that i sometimes forget to concentrate on safety and management of the entire process !