[Steve Smith]

Appreciate the note Nick but I’m a little slow on the uptake sometimes … can you please explain what you mean by ‘media manage’? What would I do in the Media Manager to try it out?

Steve

Steve Smith
Producer/Director/Editor

[Steve Smith]

That might prove a most helpful recommendation. Thanks again Mark!

And yes I’m no relation to Stephen (other than via this herd of creative cows).

Steve

Steve Smith
Producer/Director/Editor

[Steve Smith]

Wow Mark! That is so generous of you to put that exercise together and I’m busting to try it.

Being summer holidays in Australia I’m currently locked out of the facility where I can access Motion but I’ll get onto it as soon as that changes and let you know how it goes.

Not only does it look like you’ve solved my problem but I’ll be delving into a style of software I’ve long been timid about trying … one of those people who only learns new programs when there something concrete that must get done.

And thanks for the tips Jeff. A couple of weeks work has gone into the FCP sequence I’ll be using so building confidently on top of that is key.

Will report after I’ve bolted on my Motion training wheels!

Steve

Steve Smith
Producer/Director/Editor

[Steve Smith]

Bingo! Deleted the two files in the ‘thumbnail cache file’ folder, restarted FCP and thumbnails are now correct.

This succeeded where no amount of playing around with creating new projects and sequences and cutting and pasting data could.

Tony and Rafael I can’t thank you enough … actually Rafael I wasn’t quite sure what you meant by ‘deleting’ the thumbnails but Tony’s post clarified that.

Thanks!

Steve

Steve Smith
Producer/Director/Editor

[Steve Smith]

Actually Chris, yes, that might explain some clips playing off the timeline but not the case of, say, my double clicking a source clip (on the timeline marked as offline and composited over another clip) loading back into the viewer in it’s original state including transparent area where the alpha channel is. To me that seems contrary to how FCP has always worked.

So I think the mystery remains.

Thanks,
Steve