Final Cut Pro Input Clip/master question

Hello,
I'm using fcp 4.5 on a PowerMac 1.8gh.
So I've just lost a hard drive, and I've tried to recapture the media for my project into another drive.
However, the tape is damaged at the beginning, and I am not able to recapture the old clip in its entirety.
Luckily, in the project, my 'sequence' clips are all contained in the material I could recapture.
How do I make the timeline/ sequence clips refer to the recaptured material rather than the original, lost master clip? How do I link them up to the new material and thus bring them back online?
Thanks for your help!! I hope this isn't too obvious.
Best
Richard

You can try this:
1. Close your project AND Final Cut Pro.
2. Move the actual captured clip OUT of the Capture scratch folder on your media drive
3. Open the project.
4. You'll see the media in the browser with the offline thingie over it.
5. Highlight it and Edit>duplicate
6. Give it a new name- append a number to it
7. In the browser, ON THE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL CLIP, click the media start number, and CHANGE it to what you know has good timecode.
8. Open the log and capture window.
9. Highlight the copied clip and hit batch capture, it should default to the highlighted clip.
You should already have the tape in the deck, having found an appropriate place to start your capture. DON'T FORGET TO ALLOW AT LEAST 5 SECONDS FOR PRE-ROLL.
10. Once you have captured the media, it should either repopulate, or if not, select all in the timeline and File>reconnect media. The reconnection window is pretty intuitive. It's a two step process-- first it finds the media, then you hit a reconnect button. Make sure you check the box that says something like reconnect all media in relative path.
If this DOESN'T work, you'll have to eyeball all the clips and do it that way.
Capture now is really not the best way to work for this and other reasons. It should ONLY be used when you've got something horrible like vhs with no timecode. In those cases I ALWAYS dub to something that has code, and always log and capture. Then in two years if a client has changes, all you have to do is recapture the media and you're good to go.
The Bright side: you'll never have this problem again.
Let us know how you're getting on.

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