Shawna Talbot
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Found the answer to this here: https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1044867
But does anyone know really what causes this? My only guess is whoever removed that ONE letter had the FCP project open at the time and it couldn’t handle it or something.
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That is correct. Honestly it’s raided like that because that’s how the boss wanted it. I mentioned if we really need THAT much speed and he seems to really think so. We do currently have over 3TB of footage and he’s planning on going out to shoot more for a small doc we’re working on. And we’re using Apple Pro Res 422.
It didn’t seem really needed to me, but that age old saying: Boss gets what he wants – he foot the bill for them.
Although we haven’t had an issue at all with this set up and they have worked very fast. So I’m not sure if that is the issue or not as the second editor has the same set up and hasn’t had a problem.
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We do have the put hard drives to sleep unchecked. As for the hard drives we’re using the original media is on a G-Tech 12TB and her hard drives are two Lacie 2Bigs that are 6TB each, but are striped raided together using thunderblots
The way we have the system set up is there are three computers. I use the G-Tech to make any changes I need to raw footage as it comes in (re-naming, re-coding, ect) and get timelines set up. When I’m done for the day I take the G-Tech to the two editor’s computers who are both each using the Lacie set up and update all files and add my new timelines to their projects and also update their projects with the work they each did. Then I reconnect everything to be connected to their drives rather than mine before ejecting my hard drive.
We haven’t had an issue with this too much (Except for a couple people renaming things on me in the beginning) but that was a simple reconnect – rename to match file fix. These files that were Unspecified where not those clips and were working just fine when I left for my day off. Worked the whole day I was wasn’t there. Then as the editor got started today she had this issue where the other editor is fine.
So yeah, it puzzles me. Just glad we were able to get it all connected again. I’ll have to double check what they each have their autosave set to and keep an eye on the FCP vault too just in case this becomes an issue again and we can’t reconnect using the G-Tech again.
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Just a note: We did bring in the original hard drive the footage was from and it reconnected to it. So that way we at least had the file names to go off of and we redirected all the files to her hard drive. So now they are no longer off line.
We still don’t know WHY this happened as the original hard drive was not connected to her computer when it was working yesterday. I also know not everyone can go back to the original drives like this. I hope a clearer why/how shows up to this some day.
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Has anyone else found out anything more about this issue? I’m working as an AE who keeps two computers updated with new footage for a project two editors are working on at the same time. Only I had the day off yesterday and all was well, then when I came in this morning one editor had unconnected media with Unspecified Paths. She didn’t move any files around. Just edited like usual all day yesterday, saved her project, and shut down the machine. Then had this issue pop up on her when she opened the project today.
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Oh, I know that, but he says clicking the rename from FCP is “too much work” for HIM. As he renames several clips at once with Renamer.
Either way FCP started remembering the last folder I was in again. Not sure why so if anyone knows what I did I’d love to know for future issues.
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Thanks for the reply! As I dug in deeper into the hard drive I did see the MTSs were part of a AVCHD tapeless camera. (It’s also been awhile since I’ve worked with anything other than P2 cards) I had been told that all the footage had been logged and transferred already so that’s where my initial confusion came from!
Once I figured that out I was able to log and transfer everything into Apple Pro Res (Thank GOD they still had all the files, even the empty folders.)
I was going to come back and update this to say so but got busy organizing every thing. But while you’re here I just wanted to thank you! The tutorials you have really helped me a lot when I was first getting really into this business!