Fred Grossberg
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Jeremy: It worked! You are awesome. I can’t thank you enough. I’m sure you’re incredibly busy, and it was really great of you to help me. I hope I can return the favor some day. –Fred
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Thanks for replying, Jeremy. OK I just tried that, selecting a single clip. It told me that it was going to capture 2 clips with a TRT at least equal to the whole reel. –Fred
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It has just occurred to me that there may be something else going on here, so let me give you the big picture. It was a 3-cam shoot. For my offline, I just captured all 3 reels, put them on 3 video tracks, and took the bits I wanted to a fourth track. I didn’t use Multicam. Now I’m ready to do my online and I want to recapture in a higher format. I made a Trimmed Offline Sequence, telling Media Manager to discard unused media. The results looked good: a bunch of short offline clips. I had a nagging feeling that I’d run into problems upon recapture, since these new clips were not even subclips; they were just sections of my 3 original media files (the 3 reels) that Media Manager had made into these new little clips. And indeed when I went to recapture, it told me that there were 14 additional items and did I want to add those? I said OK. Then it started recapturing the whole first reel. I aborted that, thinking that those additional items included the entire reels. So then as a test, I just selected a single clip and tried a batch capture with that, refusing to accept any additional items. That’s when it told me that it was going to capture 2 clips and gave me a TRT of my whole reel and then some. I thought that maybe the batch cache wasn’t cleared and it was still trying to capture that whole reel. But maybe it was trying to recapture both the little clip and the whole reel, and might even do that for each small clip?
Anyway this is clearly messed up, and I’m sure there’s a standard, clean way of doing this since people must follow this workflow all the time. Please fill me in. I apologize for being so perenially green.
Thanks
–Fred
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David: Many thanks for your suggestion and above all for the encouragement. Your post made me feel a lot better and I’ve just downloaded Carbon Copy Cloner. One question: how do I boot from the FW drive if my main drive is still the boot drive?
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Yes, thanks for the suggestion. I understand I have to delete all those files.
But one strange thing I do notice about my prefs. I see com.apple.FinalCut Pro.plist and in the Final Cut Pro User Data folder I see Final Cut Pro 5.0 Prefs and Final Cut Pro Obj Cache. But I don’t see Final Cut Pro Prof Cache. Is that last file always supposed to be there, or does FCP only create it when I make a certain change to my preferences inside the program? –Fred
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One strange thing I notice about my prefs. I see com.apple.FinalCut Pro.plist and in the Final Cut Pro User Data folder I see Final Cut Pro 5.0 Prefs and Final Cut Pro Obj Cache. But I don’t see Final Cut Pro Prof Cache. Is that last file always supposed to be there, or does FCP only create it when I make a certain change to my preferences inside the program? –Fred
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Thanks for the suggestion, but, no, I’m not restoring saved prefs. I let FCP regenerate them each time. But FCP Rescue still says they’re corrupt. –Fred
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Oh gosh I was afraid someone would say that, and since it comes from you, Bob, I take it very very seriously. Let me try one more time to describe my problem in the hope that you or someone else can solve it and spare me the agony of reinstalling FCP.
Here are the results of a test that pinpoints the problem. I make a one-clip DVCPro HD 720p/59.94 sequence and use the Media Manager Make Offline function to create a new 10-bit 4:2:2 uncompressed project with the offline clip and the same sequence. I recapture the clip uncompressed from D5. That goes fine, but at the end of the process I get the error message, “Reconnect Media Failed. An unknown error occurred when trying to connect the clip to the newly acquired media.” The clip is still offline, although the media has been captured. I know that because I can drag it into the Browser and it plays back fine. So I try something else. I take this new Browser clip offline and do a Reconnect Media. That works. Then I put the clip into a sequence where it plays fine. Then I take the clip offline again. Then when I try to Reconnect Media either in the Browser or the Timeline, I get the error message:
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Thanks for the suggestion. I just tried it, but unfortunately I still have the problem. –Fred
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Jeff: Thanks for taking the time to reply. It’s very kind of you. But alas, I tried all of your good suggestions, and nothing seems to help. Alpha is None/Ignore. When I change the channel to Red, I still see nothing. (I also tried looking at the scopes and there’s nothing there.) As for Plug-Ins, I don’t even have a Final Cut System Support folder in Library/Application Support.
As I posted in another thread, I tried using FCP Rescue to trash my prefs, and even after trashing them, FCP Rescue keeps telling me that my settings are corrupt. So maybe there’s something going on there.
Again, thanks so much for all your time. –Fred