Can't Reconnect Media

I recently moved several capture files from my internal HD to an external one. I did "Reconnect Media" to update their location and they worked fine. Later, Final Cut started asking me to recconect the files manually as it loaded sequences. Eventually, it stopped working alltogether and the files cannot be reconnected. The reconnect window looks like this: http://img78.imageshack.us/img78/1055/picture13tv8.png
If I try to do locate and select the correct file, the connect button greys out and I'm forced to close the window.

I actually found a deeper problem... I actually got some files with the above error to connect, but some still refuse. The files that don't work somehow got corrupted and no longer appear to work. Opening them in Quicktime shows a file with no sound and no video.
This happened to me a while back ... same thing ... external drive containing all my files. One day FCP wouldn't reconnect and when i checked the files they came up as generic icons ... (in this case) no audio.
I had to go to my backup set and copy over the bad audio files. Everything worked fine after that. Needless to say, since that time i've maintained numerous backups of my media files in case this happens again.
I've always suspected directory damage caused the original problem.
Paul

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I posted this problem almost two months ago, and was told at the time that it was a bug in FCP 6.0 and 6.0.1, but was fixed in 6.0.2. Well, I finally upgraded to 6.0.2, and the problem remains. What is strange, is that after I upgraded, the first two bins of files reconnected correctly, but ever since then none of the others have (and I tried the third bin right after the second, no changes at all to the computer). So I'm having this problem with both my G5 dual 2 gig (OS 10.4.9) and my Intel Macbook Pro (OS 10.4.11). Any ideas? The problem:
I'm trying to relink media I have on an external firewire drive, but when I click Relink, FCP only relinks the first file in my list. The files are all there, in the same location, and have not had any name or reel changes - each one relinks fine individually, but I can't get FCP to link more than 1 file at a time.
Procedures: I select all the files from a certain reel that are listed as being offline, then File>Reconnect Media. All the files I've selected are listed in the top half of the window, with the first file underlined. I have Search Single Location checked. I select Locate (though same thing happens if I select Search and locate the file myself), Show: Video Files (tho same thing happens if I select All Files), I've checked Match Name and Reel Only (though again same thing happens if this is not checked), and I checked Reconnect All Files in Relative Path. FCP finds the first file, and I click "Choose" - and the first file is listed in the bottom part of the window, but only that file.
Everything else in FCP works fine.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Tom Valens
Tamalpais Productions
Forest Knolls, CA

I am not having the same issue, and I am running 10.5.2 OS and 6.0.2 FCP. I also have FCP 6.0.2 on a computer running 10.4.11 and I have duplicate media on both systems, and bring a file back and forth and don't have to connect the media one at a time. This was a wide spread problem with 6.0.1, and the 6.0.2 update fixed that for most people. Why you are still having that problem is odd. Try trashing your FCP prefs with FCP RESCUE, and also try repairing your permissions with the Disk Utility.
Shane

What the.. where the.. Can't reconnect media files??? Source file info gone

This is bizarre. Many files went offline and now it won't tell me what is offline to reconnect.
picture....
http://www.redmoonlight.com/Picture3.png
Out of this 90 minute video, there are two 5 minute sequences that went offline. (I'm color grading every 5 minutes of the whole project using Color.) At some point without realizing it, it went offline and now the auto save doesn't have the file old enough for me to recover. (In the auto save vault, I just changed my # of copies per project from 40 to 100!)
My files are still on the drive (they were never moved!) but the source names are lost in Final Cut's sequence. A couple of files within the sequence with the offline file are still online. I don't know how 95% of the sequence went offline while the other 5% didn't.
I'm able to look at my original sequence (before exporting to Color) to compare I'll have to import the file one by one and then sync it up. HUGE TIME CONSUMING!
How did the media source name from my clips vanish? (I still love FCP.....)

Thanks for the response.
I haven't moved any media files. Even if I did, I could easily reconnect the files.
The problem is the clips in the timeline and browser lost it's metadata on the name of it's source file. The clips has no idea what the original file's name was. In the picture, the list of offline files won't list. It has no idea what to look for.
I'm reconnecting them one by one. Here are the steps I have to take to get back on track:
1 - Go to last sequence (before send to Color seq.) and see what the clip looks like
2 - Find the media on the drive and get it's original name
3 - Go back to FCP and manually relink it.
This has happened before but only to a couple of clips which was quick to fix with this same method. I'm wondering how the clips lost it's info?

Can't Reconnect Media - Converting FCP 4.5 to 7. version

Hello All
I was hoping someone might have an idea to help me.
I am converting all my FCP projects from FCP4.5 to FCP7.0
and I have a couple of files that I can't re connect too ??
The files show up as "off line"
I will manually search for them, and find them ( the files is where is is supposed to be )
I ask FCP to CONNECT to the file and
I get an EMPTY warning box - empty expect for a ! and Cancel or Ok bubbles
FCP does not tell me what is wrong with the file...?
Sometimes FCP will say that there are not enough layers in the Photoshop file ??
It seems that each time I open the project... I get a different warning !
These files run fine in FCP 4.5 ?
There are the same number of layers ??
Is this s Photoshop thing ? or a FCP thing ??
I've never run into this before ?
Any Ideas how to fix this ???
Thanks

Well that was easy.....!?
I guess I was just trying to fix a problem that wasn't a problem !
Thanks David !

Offline media, can't reconnect

I have a MacBook Pro 17", Mac OSX10.4.11, FCE 4.0.1, Lacie hard drive with firewire.
So close to being finished with this project! Hit the Fire Wire connections and it disconnected from the computer. Only a few items in the timeline were offline. Went through reconnect procedure. Automatically found the files. Hit "connect", but nothing happens to the files. Interesting, some (not all) of the offline clips in timeline are not offline when I go to their "bins", so I deleted and replaced these clips. But I can't reconnect the others. I did try rendering "all" but they are still offline (in timeline and in bins). Would forcing a rebuild using this method http://www.fcpbook.com/Video3.html help or not?
Any suggestions?

Thanks for answering! I've read everything and nothing seems to help. I've pretty much given up!
I only changed the name of each subclip, as I made it. When I click on the individual offline clips, in my timeline and click to reconnect, the computer takes me directly to the location of the original stored clip, with it's original name. When I click on "choose", it lists it and I have a the choice to click on "connect", but when I do, nothing happens. Just stays offline.
I've worked on several other FCE projects and never had this problem. Feel like I've finally got the program somewhat understood. I have moved on and re-captured the media that was offline. I have pretty much decided, I'm too frustrated to continue using FCE, in the future.

??? can BRIDGE helps PREMIERE reconnect media ???

Dear,
I'm using Premiere CS3 (also have Bridge). I'm editing on AspectHD, and I'd like to have my co-editor working on his machine with DV version of the footage.
To have him have exactly what I've got so far, I went this way:
- saved a copy of my project file
- offlined all video clips it copy and kept audio files online (to avoid
having to reconnect them, by having my co-editor have them in the same
drive path and directory as I do so they reconnect automatically)
- I imported CFHD project in a brand new DV project (so that my co-editor
can work in it and have proper specs)
So now I have an offline DV version of my project file with audio online, but when I try to reconnect medias with the DV clips, I need to reconnect them one by one; even more, I need to select them 2 times each before Premiere recognizes and accepts them as the proper media.
When I just Make Offline and Reconnect Medias in my project file and keep the HD media, I just need to select and tie one file in each folder that hold clips and Premiere does the rest, but now it won't do it for this particular project.
I talked with ADOBE tech support and the guy told me it was how Premiere works, but couldn't help me out as to if BRIDGE could help me help PREMIERE reconnect all my file in batch instead of spending 1-2 days doing so.
Anyone got any idea how to use Bridge in this case ?
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Nope. Just like Premiere, AE will interpret your offline files as the proper sources and require you to reconnect each of them manually. Even using proxies would have no benefits here as it does not update the timelien structure. I'm wondering, though, since you both use Premiere, can't you just export an EDL or AAF and then re-import? I rarely use Premiere, but seems exactly what you would want to do. Would be simple on Avid systems...
Mylenium

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I'm having some problems with Color 1.5.
Every time I close Color, it looses the rendered media. So if I make changes in one shot, I need to re-render all again. And if I render again, Color create a new render file.
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Can't reconnect my media

My captions in the video I am making said they were offline all of a sudden and I tried to reconnect the media with the reconnect media button and I even tried to re import the captions and it still says offline and won't work. What should I do to get my media back

If the media has not been created within FCE then the media ia stored on a disc somewhere.
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Telling us more about the file type of this media will help.
Al

Reconnect Media - Will only do one file at a time. (all files is checked)

I found one Google search that said this may be a bug... http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1047891 and it's really bothering me since I have about 500 more media files to connect.
When I select multiple files in my Project File Browser, right click, hit Reconnect Media... It opens the Reconnect Files window. Then I hit "Locate", navigate to the folder holding the files (Reconnect All files in Relative Path is checked), select the file, confirm, then hit connect... Only one file (the first one selected) reconnects.
It's worse than that for me, now the file is Connected in my Project File browser, but it still doesn't reconnect in my sequences. So now I have to go in the sequence and right click on the individual clips, and manually reconnect those as well.
At this point it take 6 plus clicks per file missing, times two because I have to reconnect these clips in the sequences as well... times 500 because that's how many offline files I have.
My lord, I've already done this to half of the project, I can't do it any more... where am I going wrong or is this a bug? If so, please tell me there is a workaround.
The file I'm working in is a feature film, so it's huge... I can't start over at this point.
Thanks for your time!
-Monty

The only multiple files it will reconnect are the ones that are already connected.
I hope I figured it out but need more advice. It may be that the files that won't connect do not have a visible file extension ".mov". How can I get these files to shoe ".mov" at the end of their names without manually renaming them all?
And the reason this is happening is I was using reference files to edit a movie, now I've been given new hard drives with the final uncompressed footage but same file names for each clip... plus the new hard drives I'm using have different names.
Thanks for your time!
-Monty

Disconnect/Reconnect Media (replacing low res stock)

I have a handful of stock video in a my project. I have been using the watermarked preview files from the stock media site, and now I have my purchased non-watermarked files that I need to replace in my edit.
What is the easiest way to do this?
FCP7 I would simply swap them out by "reconnecting media" and point it to the new file and it would connect to it fine since it had the same duration.
I can't seem to figure out the best way to do it here.
Thanks in advance!

You should be able to relink, so that the library clips point to the new files - assuming both versions have the same type of video and audio in them.
Where is the media stored? Inside the library? Or on a separate folder?
If the watermarked versions are on a folder and not inside the library (what is called "external media") you need only delete them - which will cause the clips to appear as offline (a red rectangle with a yellow warning triangle). Then just use the Relink command and point a folder containing the new versions.
If they are inside the library, then you need to basically do the same thing. The clips will be inside a folder called "Original Media" inside a folder for the event, inside the library package. The easiest way to locate them is to control-click in the browser and choose "Reveal in Finder". Then you can delete them as before - but since you'll be changing the contents of a library in the Finder, you should make a backup of the library just in case.
If you have created optimized or proxy media using the trial versions, you'll need to delete that as well (File->Delete Generated Event Files... or File->Delete Generated Library Files...)

Final Cut 5 - Won't recognize video files when I try to reconnect media

Help! Somehow FCP5 no longer recognizes my clips as video files.
The problem started when I transferred some clips to another drive so I could reformat my primary external drive. (It's new, and had been formatted for PC, and I felt I needed to reformat it for Mac.) I moved the files off the drive using my PC, held them on another external PC-formatted drive, then used MacDrive 7 to put them back once the formatting was done.
When I plugged the newly formatted drive back in, my Mac no longer recognized the files as video files because the file extension had been removed... It thought they were "Unix executable files." I added ".mov" to the end of the file names and they then seemed to work fine in QuickTime.
But FCP will not recognize them now... At first, when I try to "reconnect media," they are grayed out; when I select "All files" in the Reconnect Media dialog and they appear to be available. But when I choose one nothing happens and it goes back to the Reconnect Media dialog.
Did the back and forth between PC and Mac file systems screw up my files somehow?

Did the back and forth between PC and Mac file systems screw up my files somehow?
Yes. Unfortunately the move has almost certainly caused the loss of the resource data that would have been (invisibly) attached to those files.
By adding a specific .mov extension after the fact you will have helped the Mac correctly identify the file type / asscoiations but also significantly you will have physically changed the filename eg from "clip" to "clip.mov". This means that when you come to reconnect the media in FCP , then FCP will be looking for files that no longer exist at the given path eg when specifically looking for our example clip called "clip" of course it won't find it.
Try this as a test... first remove the ".mov" extension from one or more of the clips, select those clips and press Cmd-Opt-I to open an Info window for the selection. You'll see an "Open with:" popup and in that popup you should choose QuickTime Player (if its a Unix Executable then it will initially list Terminal as the appropriate app, you have to choose Other... then in the open dialog choose Enable > All Applications and then navigate to and select the Quicktime Player app as the appropriate app). After you've done that restart FCP and see if you can now reconnect to those clips.

Reconnecting media for entire project

I have had to clean up a very messy project by moving all the media to new drives with one Capture Scratch folder on each. I'm wondering if there is a particular way the media should be reconnected.
Would I start reconnecting the media from bins of clips? Or reconnect the media from sequences? Or would I simply highlight everything in my browser and then start reconnecting media.
Thanks in advance. This has been a crazy process and prompt responses from other users has really helped. Again, I hope we can all make it clear to Apple that they should push fixing their media management to the top of their priority list. I make this clear on every tech support call.
Loch

If there is the possibility of media corruption (or sequence corruption, for that matter), reconnecting from your main sequence might be beneficial.
In the past, I've discovered clips (stills, usually) that have gone wonky on me by reconnecting one-by-one from a sequence.
If there is no question of media corruption (it's simply that the project is too bloated, for instance) then you can probably make do with connecting from your bins.

Can't reconnect PSD files.

Hi
My partner (Final cut Studio 2) send me a project file. We're collagorating on this project. I have FCE 4.5.
I was able to reconnect all the media but he also sent me some layered PSD files. I can see them in the finder, but when I try to reconnect them, I get an error msg "The file does not have enough video tracks to reconnect to stripe at time 00:00:00;00 in sequence "xxxx.psd. Click okay to make this item independent and go to the next clip or Cancel to skip all clips from this file"
I'm still learning this FCE. How can I reconnect these files fo my FCE sees them? All the video clips have been reconnected and rendered and play fine on my MBP except for these PSD files.
There's 3 sets of layered files in the sequence. Should I add more video tracks or shouldn't FCE put in what it needs?
Allen

It's in the sequence and on the timeline but showing off line. Anyway Mike said if I re-imported them I'd loose the layers. There's 3 sections, 1st is all the layers, then each of the 2 graphics are seperated one at the begining and one at the end. they're title seq.
He said he'd show me what to do when we meet. See, we each have a copy of the video clips. He does his work in Studio 2 and saves his stuff to his raid. Sends me the project file to open in FCE. So I have to reconnect the files and tell MBP they're on my external LaCie. Everything went good except for those PSD files. All of the info was in the CFP project file plus he sent me the graphics seperately. this is a wierd deal for me!
Thanks anyway. I'll let you know what happens.
Allen

Reconnecting Media to offline clips

Hi all,
I have an interesting situation with a client. Never seen this problem/scenario before.
Here is the setup....
--> Client is logging all footage on her computer.
--> I provided her with a formatted Excel document that will allow me to import a batch list.
--> I converted her Excel logs to a txt document, then successfully imported the batch list into FCP.
--> After importing the log, FCP appears to like the log information. Everything is in its proper column, the clip icon (still with a red slash through it) and all of the necessary info (Clip name, Media Start and Media End, Log notes, Reel, etc) are all properly placed. FCP Even calculates the duration of the clip for us.
The problem is, when I try to "Reconnect Media" in an effort to connect the log information in FCP to the actual clips, it is a massive fail.
What I am seeing when trying to Reconnect Media....
--For starters, I notice that all of the logging entries in the browser are checkmarked as offline.
--When I try to Reconnect Media, the RM dialog is asking me to search for the NAME of the individually logged clip, rather than the REEL.
--RM cannot successfully reconnect media. At best, I turn off the Match Name option (Even though the REEL name is spelled perfectly in comparison to the actual video file), then manually select the clip to reconnect to. Interestingly, upon reconnecting, FCP has renamed the REEL in the browser as "0", rather than using the actual reel name.
Any help as to how I can import the clients log files(36 pages of info) and connect them to the actual video files?
Thanks,
Matt

If the clips are not actually missing, you could try to refresh the timeline by using cmd-0 and then going to the timeline options tab. Then select name only where it says "thumbnail display". Press ok to accept the change, then repeat the process to add thumbnails back to your timeline.

Reconnect media not working

I recently moved an entire project and its media to a larger external hard drive. Now (as would be expected) the media need to be reconnected. However when I open the project, the reconnect media box says there are 1600 files to reconnect. Yet the list is entirely blank -- making reconnecting impossible. Same thing happens within the project if I click on one file and try to connect it individually, it brings up a completely blank box under files to connect. I'm not sure how to fix this so I can reconnect my media. Please help! I've tried closing the project, restarting the computer. But don't know what else to do.

Interesting development...tried to open a version of the project from autosave from last week before I moved the files to the new drive. Here's the error message I get up on opening the file and when I try to reconnect media. Not sure what this means.

Can't Reconnect Media

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