Clip weirdness after Media Manager backup

Several of my clips have freaked out after the media manager backup. I'll have to go back to an autosave and see what exactly was on them, but definitely there was a modifed speed property and I think, a keyframed brightness filter.
Also had an issue with the burn, but once I get it redone, I'll check to see if there;s any other MM weirdness.
I'll have to re-edit the portions. What can i do to avoid this issue when backing up in the future, for speed modified, layered clips?

I feel for ya...
Let's say I was doing the Smith Wedding...2 cameras, 2 tapes each camera. And since I've maybe done 3 previous weddings with a total of 10 tapes used, I'll keep a dedicated naming convention for wedding tapes, (since I may do other type event work)...such as WED001, WED002, WED003...etc.
So for this project my REEL names will be:
WED011C1T1_Smithmmddyy
WED012C1T2_Smithmmddyy
WED013C2T1_Smithmmddyy
WED014C2T2_Smithmmddyy
Then for tape 1 from cam 1 (which has pre-event Broll and Interviews), I'd set in/outs for each clip with names like:
WED011C1T1_SmithBarbIntv
WED011C1T1_SmithBarbHouseExtBR
WED011C1T1_SmithJoeIntv
WED011C1T1BarbJoeKissBR
WED011C1T1JoeDogBitesMomNLaw
ect...down the tape, hitting 'Log Clip' after each In/Out is set and making sure that Reel and Clip are properly named.
Then rewind tape, select all logged clips in browser except JoeDogBitesMomNLaw (since I really won't use it), select File/Batch Capture and away it goes, while I get coffee and check up on Barb's Mom.
Put in second Cam1 tape, lather, rinse, repeat.
This way,
1 - You can be totally selective about which shots you actually capture (saving disk space)
2 - You can always come back and 'batch capture' the JoeDogBitesMomNLaw clip, when you realize you actually might use it after all.
3 - Since you probably didn't man both cameras, you've now had a chance to familiarize yourself with the shots the 2nd camera had.
4 - You can now color code shots w/o having to break them up from master clips.
K

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I think the problem is that the .STAP file are SoundTrackPro project files, which look for the original audio files.
But I guess you removed them or at least removed the disc they are on.
That's why they render empty.
Media Manager doens't work on SoundtrackPro files (or Motion files for that matter). The proper way to handle these situations is
either export selfcontained movies from Motion, or audiofiles from SoundtrackPro and edit those in your timeline and THEN do the Media Manager,
or backup your Motion Projects and SoundtrackPro projects with all their assets along with the Media Management from FCP.
A nice [feauture request|http://www.apple.com/feedback/finalcutpro.html] would be to have Media Managaer handle all assets from the Final Cut Studio Suite.
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I noticed an option on media manager that asks if you want to base media file names by their exsisting file names, or clip names.
She does a decent job correctly labeling her clips in the bin, just not the captured source files, by basing the media on clip will it solve my issue mentioned above? <
Unknown, sorry, this is why you want to run a test, probably more than one. The source media files will not have exactly the same names--oh, you have separate capture folders. Okay, this WILL be a problem.
<div class="jive-quote">2. Deleting unused media...I should uncheck this right? otherwise i may loose clips I need or want to use? Is this why the green bar labeled modified is smaller than the original bar? What does including affiliate clips outside selection mean? < </div>
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Maybe some of your clips are corrupt. Divide and conquer might be the best approach.
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Message was edited by: Brett Nelson

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hi,
all Systems are 32 Bit (Database Oracle 9.2.0.5 and DP6.0).
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