Chris Kellam
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I figured as much. Thanks guys for the replies.
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I’m having a similar issue. When you say all of the subfolders are in your work folder are you referring to all folders being in the capture scratch folder of that particular project?
Thank you,
Chris -
Okay, when I go to reconnect it brings up the reconnect media screen. At top of that are two buttons: one for offline media the other for online media. Both of those buttons are activated and a list appears of all of the Online and Offline media. There are about 5 files online. When I click the online media to off, the only thing that appears is the offline media files, which only list L-2DRIVE which is the name I have given for my external hard drive. I hit, locate and all files are unable to be clicked on, this includes the ones that are listed as online. Then, when I open the capture scratch folder to look at the files directly some of the both online and offline files will open when clicked on while other will give me the error message, Error problem opening movie: This movie could not be opened. Now I went through and tried to right click on some of the files in the media viewer to reconnect them that way and it seemed to work, at one point. One odd thing about all of this is that when I scroll through my timeline with the error keys the offline media still plays. It’s complected I know, and I wish I had a better way to explain it. I could recapture but I’m scared I would have to start the whole project over and I have been working on it for 5 months. Thanks again,
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Well, I think part of the issue here is that it’s difficult for me to put into words what I am seeing, without confusing the reader. I guess this is what I should of asked: what are some possible causes of not being able to reconnect media files to a sequence, disregarding the common possibilities like not having your scratch drive set right. So, I guess I’ll go back and start with that question here. Thanks again. And I always look forward to your responses.
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All of the files were captures “capture now”. I didn’t delete any render files that I know of. The render file folder on my external hard drive is still full of files. I noticed this time as I opened the project it was still rendered. When I go to reconnect media it tells me the only files that are off line is the l-2drive, which is the name of my hard drive. But, everything seems to open fine in my hard dive that does not pertain to final cut. The settings are still set to the hard drive. Any thoughts on this?
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No, I have no renamed it. Is it possible the media files themselves could be corrupt? I clicked on some of the quicktime media files and some gave me the message that “the movie could not be opened”; however, some opened fine: Both of which are offline. Should I try moving the project to my desktop from my external?
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Jeremy,
Thanks again for the response. So, there are no render files in that folder. Hmmm. What exactly does this mean? What are disc IO issues?
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It’s actually fcp 5.0.4.
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Another problem has arisen with my issue. I ignored the warning as suggest; however now the clips in the timeline won’t render. They rendered once when I used the render what’s needed option, but after saving shutting down, and starting back up they were not rendered. Also, it seems some of the clips are now stuck almost like still frames. When I scroll through with the arrow keys are simply place the play head over a certain part of the clip the image stays the same. This is a disaster, any advice anyone?
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Danny,
Thanks so much for the reply, it’s a great help. I’m not sure what you mean by “saving the files”—I save the project. Is this what you mean? There are a few more details I can give you. I noticed that inside of my capture scratch folder, there is another empty capture scratch folder along with an empty render files and audio render files folder—do you think this could be related to my problem? Also, I have 4 deferent sequences with this project, all variations of the same thing; however, in my capture scratch folder I noticed that each sequence folder contains different files: For instance, sequence one has day1 day 2 day 3, where as sequence 2 has day4 day5 day6. Now I haven’t changed anything since I started the project and don’t know if it’s been like this all along. I thought, though, that as long as it was the same project the files could be read regardless of what folder they are included under in capture scratch. Does this make any sense?
Thanks again.