Accidently deleted capture scratch files

Hello All,
In my effort to be tidy, and not understanding the FCP system, I accidently deleted Capture Scratch footage. Now I have clips with the red line through them, and "reconnect media" does nothing. Any hope, or just the school of hard knocks?
Thanks.
DG

DG
I think you'll not reuse a tape in your life again, right?
Now you can try with some kind of application to recover deleted files from your system. Hal pointed to one application in this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1281615
Hope that helps !
Alberto

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When and how should one go about deleting capture scratch files and render files?
seems alot of folks say to transfer them to disc.... do you have to save them?
i mean if you save the time line project (to re-edit later) and save a dvd proj, and a disc img. and even a copy of the movie/media as qt file -----why do you need to save all the cap scratch and render files???????
please educate me.
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Whoops - only half your questions answered, so I'll try harder:
> i mean if you save the time line project (to re-edit
later)
It's the Media Files in the Capture Folder that are the heart of the project. If you delete those, the Timeline will contain only Offline Clips with nothing to re-connect to.
> and save a dvd proj
Same answer as the QT Movie - only worse! The DVD version will be highly compressed and you'll lose a lot of quality if you re-edit it.
If the project is very small, you might be able to put your FCP project file and the Media Files on a Data DVD - but it will have to be VERY small. The Media Files are BIG.
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Ian's right.
But if you're brave and - more importantly - are absolutely meticulous about how you logged your clips (reel number being the most important) and are sure that all your DV tapes run in an unbroken 00:00;00-60:00;00 - then you can delete your capture scratch per project whenever you feel comfortable about doing that and then...
... when everything has been reinstalled and reformatted back up you can open your original project files, click capture project and you will be prompted to insert your reels number/name by number/name. FCE will automatically find what you logged.
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Be sure to name the tapes too.
You should be fine (if you're brave and meticulous).
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If you are not using the clip files in a project, you can just change the file names via the Finder.
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In the future, give your clips unique names at the time you capture them.

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Will my local apple store be a good place to buy the correct drive?
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Yes, if they were purchased from iTunes. If they were CD's you copied to your iTunes library, then synced to your iPad, you may be forced to redownload the CDs again.
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I assume you don't have a backup on an external HD. You always should, because then you could easily fix your problem.
Boot in Safe Mode. See What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode? (Mac OS X)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107392 Takes a while to run, but it usually "fixes" problems.
Safe Boot takes longer than normal startup
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1884?viewlocale=en_US
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Message was edited by: David Morgan7

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Edit: Hey! Just a moment! That was you! You remember this thread on MacNN... http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=278766
I started that thread before I bought FCE!
Anyway, in hindsight I think I was asking for trouble. I think I had about three Soundtrack projects open at the same time, maybe more than one FCE sequence too. I was clicking frantically and giving key commands impatiently. I must get out of the habit; that can only be conducive to crashes.
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Not without breaking the relationship between the clips and your FCE project file.
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Accidently deleted iTunes library file

Hello,
I tried to move my whole iTunes library from my main hard drive to my second integrated drive. I used the instructions from Apple to do so, but apparently I did something wrong and somehow I lost me library file. At least that's what I think went wrong. I cannot retrieve it, it's not in the recycle bin and my time machine tool on my computer does not work for some reason...
I still got all my music data, TV shows etc, it's all there, but it's not displayed in my iTunes library, although I checked the location at "Preferences".
Should I just import all that data into the library again? And will I be able to sync my iPhone with that iTunes now that the old library file is gone? What are my options? I'm really confused now....
Thank you in advance!
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You're most welcome.
When you're ready to move your library again download and run the script iTunesInfo. The output should be something like this:
If the iTunes Library.itl file and iTunes Media folder are in the same parent folder (so have the same values outlined in red) and iTunes media organization is true then the library folder (outlined in red) is portable and can be copied or moved from the current location to a different path, drive or network share. Once there you can start iTunes by holding down shift as you start iTunes releasing shift once there is a prompt to choose or create a library. Click choose and browse to the .itl file in the new location.
If the .itl and .xml files are not in the same folder as the media folder, or iTunes media organization is false, then the library will need a bit of preparation before it can be moved. Post back the details and I will explain how to do it without breaking the library.
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Resizing capture scratch/ large .mov files

Most of the time when I capture I get all the footage on the tape. I realized this is eating up my hard drive. Is there a way in quicktime I can edit these capture scratch files to where my capture scratch is contains only what I need?

Hi Paul,
In addition to Studio X and Andy there's another Media Manager workflow.
Make Subclips of the parts you want to keep. Advantage is that you can rename those subclips. Then use Media Manager: Delete unused media" and "filenames based on clipnames".
Read the manual before using Media Manager. It can be irreversible.
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I am fairly new to Final cut Pro. How do I convert a QT file into a Capture scratch file if possible. I want to be able to access the file from my bin for editing. Thanks

You do need to crack manual open a little bit. Your questions are so basic that they indicate that you haven't done any research.
To make the video fit the screen you need to scale it. Open the manual and search for "scaling" or RGB and wireframe.
Open the manual, and search for "render all."
People are here to help, but you also have to do some of the work your self.
The pdf help manual is accessed from the help menu of the program.
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Ok -- i screwed up.
heres my setup:
iPad 1 (iOS 5.01), iPhone 4 (iOS 5.01), MacBook Air Core i7 (10.7.2) <---- synched to -----> iCloud
I use Keynote daily and have presentations synched between all my devices. I accidently deleted a keynote file on my iPhone... and within minutes it was deleted on iCloud and my iPad.
I had a look on my MacBook Air to see if i could find anything in "~/Library/mobile documents/com~apple~Keynote/Documents" there was nothing to be found as expected. I even looked in "~/Library/mobile documents.deleted" -- but i couldn't even find this folder.
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I have spent 4-5 hours with some helful apple support guys -- but there seemed no solution to this problem.
1.WHat are my options?
2. Why can't i restore a Keynote file from my iPad backup (regardless if it was deleted in iCloud).
This is MAJOR bug with iCloud. And i need to get to the bottom of this with Apple.

Your suggestion about Time Machine is noted -- and i think good advice for the future although i think most users would be rather confused on the usefuleness of Time Machine when dealing with iCloud synching with iOS devices.
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