[Martin Roe]

Thank you Steven for being able to see what I meant, better than i could.

[Martin Roe]

Solved!

And as initially feared and then hoped and then thought unlikely, the problem was totally noob

It was nothing to do with Cinema Tools.

It was a media storage issue.

At the post house I just left, a system was introduced where folders of importance were renamed with a leading ! . So, for example OUTPUTS became ! OUTPUTS.

It seemed to make sense as if you’re reading this, you know full well how many lists get made in this game. And it was a quick way to single out important ones.

But don’t be too quick to judge, the ignorance did not run so deep as to rename the CT files or indeed Media files of any kind. Only folders.

Now, what was changed in this case, was a folder two levels above the CT files. And what makes it interesting is that this has become a problem for the first time only now.

This folder contains all the project media for over a terabytes worth of constantly revolving information that is run across four machines and which has been used happily by all of 3D/2D & NLE Apps under the sun, including ALL the other FCPS apps for months.

Actually I can’t say all the other apps – I don’t use live type – does anyone?

But what matters, boys and girls, is that today we learned that Cinema Tools is special and doesn’t like to play with the other apps. It wants to ruin your day and keep you up all night over a little exclamation point.

Bah!

I miss Avid sometimes. Is there any chance that FCP might do a media storage set-up like AVID, where it makes copies of what you import and stores them and their metadata in one safe, proprietary place? With the cost of hard drive space these days and the amount of my day that’s been wasted, I think we’ve got a water-tight case for change on our hands.