[Creative Animal jan]

By the way, send me the file and I will try it on my FCP5.0.4

regards

Jan

[Creative Animal jan]

A couple of idiot tricks that might help:

– duplicate your project in the finder and open the duplicate
– open FCP by opening another projectfile from the finder. This way, you will find out if the problem is in the project file or in FCP itself.
– If you are working on XSan, duplicate your media files onto a local drive and try reconnecting again
– If any of the ‘missing media’ files are non-quicktime, try converting them first using compressor before ading them to your fcp project

hope one of these helps

regards

Jan
managing director
Creative Animal
The Netherlands

[Creative Animal jan]

if Bryce’s suggestions don’t work, you might have a corrupted mediafile in your project.
Try opening Final Cut by opening any OTHER fcpproject from the finder.
If that works, you know you will need to check all your quicktime files to find the one that got corrupted (it will probably display the error message ‘bad movie atom’). This file cannot be repaired and you will have to batch this one.

good luck

Jan

managing director
Creative Anima
The Netherlands

[Creative Animal jan]

HDV will playout with realtime downconversion to SD on any Blackmagic cards.
Choose HDV1080 in your sequence reset, then choose HD1080 in your playback – audio video settings.
Then goto your mac system preferences. Choose Blackmagic settings and enable realtime downconversion HD->SD.
There you go!

good luck
Jan

Managing director
Creative Animal
The Netherlands