Reconnect simple render files!

This should work, I would think . . . but it doesn't seem to!
Say I have a project with a lot of clips that need rendering. I'm storing my media on an external firewire drive. And rendering it to my scratch disk, which is a third drive. All Mac formatted - all works perfectly!
So I have the timeline - on the original computer (a Mac Pro) - and I copy it to my MacBook Pro to continue editing upstairs, say. But I take the data drive with me, so everything links perfectly.
So I change the time line a bit - and put the "new" slightly changed timeline back on the Mac Pro original computer. FCPro finds all data and relinks it all perfectly!
EXCEPT . . . all the render files - which were never moved to begin with. It's a "new" timeline, although 98% identical - just with a few edit changes. BUT . . . FCPro finds NONE of my renderings.
Now it wants 45 minutes to rerender the timeline! Grrrr . . . why can't FCPro "find" the render clips just like it finds the data clips - which is perfectly.
Oh, there are 30 gig of render clips in the 'Render Files' folder on my scratch disk. So they're there - FCPro just doesn't know it, or can't find them, even if directed to the right folder.
I'm hoping I'm wrong here . . . so I guess my question is, will FCPro find its render clips as well as it finds the data clips - if you move the timeline to another computer and back - but change nothing?
It doesn't seem to - and it's really slowing me down!
Thank you,
Larry

Because what FCP typically does is throw the unreferenced render files into the trash. So they are most likely gone.
Shane

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Can I reconnect old Render Files?

Couldn't find a posting directly addressing this. I apologize in advance if it has been covered a thousand times. Here's my post.
I've opened a FCP 6.0.3 project that has a sequence edited with the AJA 10bit uncompressed codec. Because I did not have this codec on my computer I changed the sequence codec to BlackMagic 8bit. The worse part is I accidentily saved the project. THAT'S when I realized that I could have installed the AJA codec and then been able to use the Render Files associated with that sequence. So, now I can open the sequence just fine, but of course I have to re-render the entire sequence.
*Is it not possible to reconnect previous render files (after saving the project)?*

Because what FCP typically does is throw the unreferenced render files into the trash. So they are most likely gone.
Shane

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I made the mistake of opening another application while FCP was at the tail end of an 18hour render. FCP quite suddenly and of coarse when I re-opened it all the work was gone. I tried auto-save but since the render wasn't finnished the last autosave was 17 hours previous. Render manager is only for deleting unneccessary render files, is there a way to restore or reattach a render file?

Probably not. FCP isn't the best at managing media and it's management of render files is even worse. New media is created on disk when it renders, with cryptic file names, but the app has to associate that filename with the clip it rendered from. If you don't get prompted to reconnect when opening the project you are out of luck. And if you do then you have to manually reconnect the render file which usually doesn't work either. I would render in chunks in the future to avoid such a problem.

Having trouble reconnecting render files

Hi-
I recently had to move a project from one hard drive to another, and although all the files are relatively in the same hierarchy (only the drive itself has changed) when I load the project in it shows almost the entire timeline needing rendering, both audio and video. When they were on the original drive, the entire project was rendered and it was completely done. Now when I look in my audio render folder and it seems that the render files are all split up in three separate project files... as time went on I would "save as" in order to have permanent backups, so maybe FCP is "confused" as to which of those subfolders each audio render file is in. The video render folder is similar, spread out in two different subfolders. So it looks like my render files are split among two folders in video render, and three folders in audio render. FCP never had any trouble with this arrangement before, keeping track fine.
When I select "reconnect" from the menu, "render files" is ghosted... it won't even let me select it. Am I really going to have to re-render everything to get my project back just because the files were moved to another drive?
Or could I try putting all the render files in one drive (move them up a level and out of the subdividing folders). Would that help FCP "find" them to reconnect with them? I'd backup the entire render file folders first in case it didn't work.
Thanks!
Leslie Bell

I'd not change project file names mid stream... it's really best to backup OFF the computer too. A USB flash drive works really well for this... When you change project names, and capture or render, the files get put into new folders named the same as the new project file's name... sort of messy.
You can put a flash drive in a USB port, and each day, just drag your project file to it, replacing the old... that way no matter what happens to your computer, the project file will not be affected.
Jerry

False Compressor error msg: reconnect render files

This issue has cropped up recently. During compression, the "reconnect media" dialog pops up, saying that one, two, or as many as thirty render files are missing. When I click "reconnect," a message says that there are no such files and the render continues normally.
This happens three times, for each file (2 audio, 1 MPEG).
This has not happened before. It means I can't Compress overnight because these false errors halt the process. Babysitting required!
Is is there any fix, any way to stop this?
Thanks,
Dave

I'm compressing MPEG-2 files. It generally has not been a problem until this recent project, which is a collection of sequences from other projects. The compressor is probably looking for leftover files that don't exist.
Perhaps I could solve the problem by re-setting the scratch render disk and re-rendering. That would take some time, but it might be worth a try when I get a moment. Or, I could simply clean out the render folder and re-render.
What do you think?

Reconnecting render files

each time i have a crash or a hangup and go into the auto-save vault for the last saved project files (i backup every 7 minutes), the media files connect but all the renders must be done from scratch. this can take up to an hour depending on the project. Nothing has changed in my settings. Why won't the render files reconnect? I am on fcp7. i don't remember this happening in the past before i upgraded to osx 10.8.3. is there a fix? when i right click on reconnect media, the render files tab is always grayed out. thanks.

good question. each time i scrub the timeline with an effect using FxFactory (unrendered), I crash. Trashed preferences, uninstalled and reinstalled FxFactory. Not sure what the issue is. Have 11TB free on my capture scratch. HD has enough space, 16 gb of memory, project settings are correct, etc. etc. Its a mystery and it happens at least 5-6 times a day. it is a real issue. i try to render all my effect immediately, but i still run into trouble.

Reconnect media and render files

Hi!
I need advice. On my G4 and four different external LaCie hard disks I have five different Final Cut Pro 4.5 projects running, i e they are finished but I would like to keep them a bit more before I throw them in the bin. OS is 10.3.9.
I thought I had control but I hadn’t. When I look around I notice that my projetcs’ different folders have been created in other places than I thought. Furthermore in some of the folders (Render folders and others) there are more than one project’s files.
I haven’t dared to do anything about it but I want clean up during this summer and so I wonder: Would it be possible to move all the render files, the captured files etc so everything is in neat order, and then open the projects in FCP and reconnect all the media files that I have moved?
I’d be happy for your views on this matter, Björn Obenius, Sweden

Yes it's quite easy.
First you need to set up your scratch disks in FCP preferences. Where did you want to save all you renders, audio, media files, and even back up project files.
This will automatically create new folder to that location.
Next, transfer the media files to the those new folders created by FCP. The folder name Capture scratch/(projectname)/.
For the render files, you can either delete them and start fresh or transfer those to the new folder created by FCP called Render Files/(project name)/
You can condense all of these. When you go back to FCP it will ask you where the files are and you can reconnect them there.

Render files hidden away - but where?

I have a laptop with several firewire external drives connected. I rendered a sequence in FCP5.04. I was told there was no more space on the selected hard drive, even though there appeared to be more than 6GB of space. Cancelling the warning and restarting the render several times eventually succeeded in acheiving the render. I now disconnected the laptop, and opened the same project from my desktop machine, which was now connected to the same external hard drives. I was told several render files were offline. The expected location of these was given as:
Laptop HD:Applications:FinalCutPro.app:Contents:MacOS:and then a folder with the project name
But where on earth is that? "Final Cut Pro" in the Apps folder is the app pure and simple - it does not have any folders with it. Searching with Spotlight found nothing.
However, if I now network my laptop into the system and relaunch the project, FCP finds those files on the Laptop HD and does not ask me to reconnect. Needless to say, launching the project from the laptop always finds the files.
I want to move the files to a location which is not on the laptop. How do I find them?
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John

Locate your Final Cut Pro application. CONTROL-CLICK on it and select SHOW PACKAGE CONTENTS. Now you can find the render file.
Odd bug this.
Shane

What are the "rules" regarding render files?

OK...one PO-ed user here, wondering *** is going on...
I've always said that FCP is about as weak as an early version of Media 100 when it comes to render files. You can search my posts (not that you'd want to...), and find that I've been complaining about every system I regularly work on losing render files like a 6 year old loses mittens.
However, it's hit the fan, thus this post. I work on a half-hour tv show. Let me mention that we shoot and edit in XDCAM EX 1080i60; this is notable as yes, I know, rendering in long-GOP codecs is slow. Oh, I know it...
Anyway, this past Tuesday I dilligently rendered my composite sequence, and the broadcast output sequence, and then exported the broadcast sequence for feed. All was well.
Today, I opened up the project so I could make final archives and web exports of the individual segments...and guess what? Gee, Wally, the entire sequence was, you guessed it, unrendered. Where did those pesky render files go? Well, I figured I'd try something I never try, and that was to reconnect them. Hopeless, right?
As it turns out, yes, hopeless...because when I navigated to the Render Files folder, there was a grand total of 11 render files for this particular project. Now, I don't change my System Settings at all...I like where things go, I have my media volumes set up, everything should be hunky-dory, no?
So to get to the heart of the matter...what process is tossing render files? Why are they disappearing from my hard drive?
I have folders from projects from 2 months ago that have some render files in them, but I don't have the render files my system (supposedly) created on Tuesday!
Anyone got any ideas?

Hey, Shane, as soon as I saw you posted I began to get deja vu all over again, as we had a discussion about losing render files which, yes, caused me to stop nesting...for the most part. So yes, here we again have evidence that the "nesting behavior" coding team took off early the day they were supposed to be bug-fixing...but i digress.
I nest only when necessary...generally, we edit "packages" (your acts) and then I get em, do whatever audio and color correction time allows, and copy and past them into my complete program sequence.
However, when all is well, good, revised and approved, I "edit" that complete 22:10 sequence into my "BS" sequence (you might guess, Broadcast Safe), which has the bars n tone requested by the broadcast mothership, and where I apply a light Broadcast Safe filter and a touch of compression to the audio. So I guess my only question here it...are you suggesting that I just splat-A my edited sequence and apply the filters to the gazillion-odd clips individually?

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Yep, seeing it on footage that has been rendered on the edit suites I was working in at uni. Capture Scratch footage(raw captured footage)seems fine. Artifacts appear on canvas and external monitor. Monitoring via firerwire 400 port through mini dv deck on ext monitor. Working from an external firewire drive on a lacie pci firewire 800 port. Uni runs fcp 4.5 with OSX 10.4.2.
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Missing render file/project will not render

I'm new to using FCE - just got my iMac with FCE pre-installed a few weeks ago - and have run into a big problem with current project. When I open the program, it tells me one render file is offline and I can reconnect or continue. I have no idea where the file could possibly have gone, so I select 'continue'. But now the project will not render. I have four sequences open in the project file, and have tried everything - locking and unlocking tracks, selecting various combinations of render both, render all, render selection, rendering only audio or video, etc. All the appropriate render selections are checked in every option. But still, the project won't render any of the sequences; the render box comes up for a split second and goes away faster than the eye can follow. I've tried setting the scratch disk; that didn't help. I tried saving the project, closing and opening the project, etc. Nothing helps. It just won't render. Does anyone have any idea how I can fix this problem?

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How to view FCPX Render Files?

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I had a catastrophic hard drive crash. The footage was lost but some fairly recent render files from the project were on a separate drive and remain intact. I also have the project file. Isn't there SOME way to fool FCP into showing these render files in the sequence and letting me at least view them (in sequence) in FCPX and then perhaps somehow, even if it's just real-time recording from a screen-capture program or by outputting through the display port, retrieve some of the lost footage? I don't need the audio, FYI.
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You can select more than one event and delete the render files for all the selected events.

Render files missing-after duplication and also after moving

I have to replace a drive, which is still working well, so i went ahead and tried to move libraries with all its content (Events,projects,reneder files), which doesnt exist as an option... as far as i was able to figure this out....
then i went ahead to move events, where as one in 5 was movable the others would only have copy as an option.
which strikes me as oddity already...
after this was done i compared the content of libraries between the 2 drives, and was in shock.
the render files were all missing, needless to state here, that i wil NOT re-render weeks of work again...LOL
so i went and googled this, and came to thousands of answers on how to move or copy events to a different location , but always on the same HD.
there was absolutely nothing about moving Libraries with the Events and Projects and render Files all together explained ,.... ANYWHERE!
is there anyone out there who knows how to do this, so the render files actually move over to a new HD and ,...of course,...are reconnected there propperly and usable?
manually moving these render folders will NOT reconnect them to the projects,.... just as a FYI ...
why is there no instructions in the FCPX help menu on moving " Everything "..??
but thousands of article on how to move only parts and pieces .....

using disk utility to do a clone of the old drive to a brandnew drive... would this have done the trick?
you know the restore to destination trick....
or would have these renderd files still not connect since the drive might have a unique manufacturer id number...
yes ...the new drive would have been called the very same as the old drive...
the old drive has a clicking noice so seagate replaced it...
and i am in a challenge to move all stuff over now...to the new drive...

Missing Render files, won't play, General Error message

I have Final Cut Pro 5.0.4 on my Mac 1.8 Ghz Power PC G5, using Mac OS 10.4.10.
I just opened a Final Cut Pro project and got a message that several render files were offline. No idea how that happened, and I couldn't find them to reconnect. Now, when I try to play the video, it stops and a "General Error" message comes up.
I tried re-rendering the whole thing,and reconnected all my media files, but it still won't play. Any ideas on how to save my project?

There are just too many possibilities for us to start guessing. Try searching for GENERAL ERROR and MISSING RENDER FILES, both topics get posted often so you'll find several suggestions and possible causes. However, not many people bother to close their threads around here so there's no way to know if any of the information we passed on was of any help.
FCP 4 and 5 had the odd super-power to make files disappear as if they had never existed. General Error often indicates a corrupt project file so try to open one of your AutoSaves.
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Can I use render files to replace missing media in FCPX

I lost some media, but I still have render files. They are weird files that don't open in any other software and have no filename extensions. Can I use these existing render files to replace missing original media? Or maybe a better question is....what kind of files are these render files for FCPX?

Hello
I'm not sure at all but first things first. Try simple list of commands in shell :
#!/bin/bash
Render -r sw file1;
Render -r sw file2;
Render -r sw file3;
Each command separated by semi-colon will be executed one by one.
Unless command 'Render' exits before finishing the rendering, the above shell script should do what you want.
Good luck,
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