Clip missing

First I set my capture bin, then I log and transferred footage into a project bin and one of the clips is missing. I have searched in my finder and capture bin and the clip is mia. Would it be anywhere else? I am desperate. It was a very important clip.

Hi,
the bin in FCP is only pointing to clips on your media drive, its very easy to hit delete in FCP, losing the clip from FCP but it should still be on the media drive though. check there, if its not and you have the clip showing "offline" in FCP then batch capture that one clip - you have kept the original?
what were the clips/tapes/files coming from? cards or tapes?
Andy

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