Reconnecting offline

will someone tell me how to reconnect offline clips.

Select the clip or clips that you want to re-connect in your browser. Then CONTROL CLICK on one of them and from the list choose RECONNECT MEDIA. Follow the appropriate instructions that appear in the Reconnect Dialogue box.
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Reconnect offline clips

I used the tagging of PSE5 to tag my video clips (same as photos). I also used the move/copy method to store the material (avi files) offline on to DVD's. Due to a glitch in the PSE6 ability to recognize offline files from PSE5 I am bringing all my material back online to external hard drives. Everything has gone fine. I've just about filled up my first 750GB hard drive from the offline material.
My issue at this point is I have hit some DVD's that the Move option under File dropdown in PSE5 doesn't recognize the DVD's I put in. This may be a DVD cataloging issue. My computer can see the files in the DVD, so there is no problem for the computer to deal with the files. It is just that PSE5 can't see the files for restoring them to an online location. I'm looking for suggestions on alternatives to bring this material on line and still retain the tags I have for them and have PSE5 recognize they are online.
TIA,
Bob D

Apple Discussion- reconnecting offline clips
Hi Tom
I have all the media connected except the voiceover. I even find the voiceover clips and I drag them into the browser then I try to reconnect them without luck. I can manually drag one at a time from the browser to the time line to replace those off lines, so I just have to work around it. The reason why I move them around at the first place? Because I need the space in my internal drives for a new project, therefore I want to save the project (including the medias) in my external drive for future editing. Apparently, I am not smart enough to handle it.
Thank you
ps

How does FCE reconnect offline files?

Can someone explain the mechanism that Final Cut uses to reconnect offline files? If I understood the process, possibly I might be able to solve the following problem:
I have a project with many offline files. They happen to be all of the still photos whose source is an iPhoto Library. In the timeline (where all the offline files are shown in red), a right click reveals the correct name of each file, however, FCE is unable to reconnect.
If I try to reconnect, there is no indication of any Offline Files in the Reconnect Window. If I select the Search button and navigate to the location of the missing files, all of the file names are grayed out.
How is it that FCE knows the name of the offline files but not their location nor is able to reconnect with either the Locate or Search functions?

"When you navigate to the file names can you hit the All Files in the SHOW sub-menu?"
Yes, I can select All Files, which allows me to select and reconnect a single file. If I select more than one file, nothing happens. I have many files to reconnect. Doing them one at a time is not practical.
In the past, I have been able to reconnect multiple files, simultaneously. Of course, those files were also listed in the Reconnect Files window. This time they are not.
Regarding changing the file path, in the past I have moved the location of source files and after launching FCE, it seems to know immediately where they are. So, apparently that is not the problem.
For the record, this project has many Bins, each containing a sequence, many video clips and still photos. This is the only bin that has a problem and it is only with the still photos in that bin and sequence. One more bit of info that may or not be meaningful: This particular bin was temporarily misplaced within another bin. For some time, I thought that it was lost. When I finally discovered it, I moved it to its proper location and it was then that I discovered the offline files problem.

Newbie- How to reconnect "Offline Media" in CS3?

I've been using Premiere for a while (successfully), but always by importing existing QT movies (that I have created using QT pro) No problems at all.
A bit more detail: I'm an animator, so in the past I have been assembling the original frames of my shots (created one at a time) in QT Pro into QT movies...then bringing those into Premiere.
But recently I've imported live action footage from a dv cam, through the Capture window. No problem, the importing worked great, and in the bin it displayed all clips as ".mov" files...
I did some cleaning up of my computer today and although I know Premiere is very fussy about where you store your files, I didn't think I'd done anything serious. But when I opened Premiere for the first time after cleaning up my computer, I'm informed it can't find all of the ".mov" files.
I "Skip All" (just to see the damage to my timeline) and when the project opens, my timeline reads that all the clips are "Media Offline".
How do I reconnect? Or do I have to re-capture? It's not a long piece but still- this seems like a horrible thing to just happen... I need to protect myself for when I've got longer timelines... even this short one represents hours of work...
Do these offline .mov files actually exist somewhere? If they DO exist, how do I reconnect? Where are they? I've looked through all the obvious Premiere folders I can find, and there's no files to reconnect to...
Finally- how do I avoid this nonsense in the future?! Should I be using Capture in a different way? All I was doing was opening the Capture window, controling the dv camera via the window's controlls, marking in and out points, then capturing... then the .mov would show up in the bin.
Please help, I'd really like to get this little project back in action...
Thank you very much,
Chris.

Chris,
I strongly recommend this site: PrPro-Wiki. Look both in the FAQ and the Tutorials sections. Yes, most will reference things being done on a PC, but with the exception of substituting Command Key for Ctrl, and a name, or two being different, things are covered very well.
Good luck,
Hunt

Reconnecting Offline Images in Ap3

I use Ap 3 and store my files on a gdrive (not in the aperture library) . Some images are not viewable and when in the browser mode they appear as an empty box with a dotted frames around where the image should be. So I go to locate referenced files it says they are offline. I can reconnect individual images but how do I reconnect multiple images (in the same project) at once?

See my response to a similar problem here

Old FCP file unexpectedly quitting when trying to reconnect offline media

An old project that I transfered from one computer to my new mac pro is not working.
When I open the FCP file it asks me to choose a scaling quality. Either: Normal, Fastest, or best. I have tried all three (with the same result.)
Next it says 152 media files are offline and 28 render files are offline. I kept all these files in the same folder when I transfered the project to my new computer, so I thought I would simply reconnect them. I click "reconnect," search for the first file, find it, and click it. As soon as I click the name of the file, not "choose," just the name of the media file, FCP unexpectedly quits. I click report and send the automatic message to Apple. It is really long, but if you want I can post that message. If any one has any ideas or could offer some help it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot for your time!
Peace,
Andrew

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How to Reconnect Offline Pictures Moved to New Partition

I recently partitioned my C drive and moved My Pictures (not using PE Organizer) to the new partition ("J" Drive) to separate data files from program files. I now have 25,000 pictures that are offline. How do I reconnect to the folders containing these pictures?
Windows 7 Home Premium
Photo Elements 9

Above mentioned workflow is absolutely correct, but here is some info which will help you in understanding it better through detailed steps - http://bit.ly/Jo9zhc

FCP won't reconnect offline media

OK, I've read several pages, but can't find anyone with the same problem.
for no apparent reason FCP made all my freshly captured clips offline. (We did have a power outage, but that's all I can think of that might have done anything.) I did not move or rename any files. Just opened up FCP and they were ALL offline. All of them have the correct reel number.
Tried to reconnect, but got the message that there was "not proper content" to reconnect...
So, I moved the files to trash, and manually recaptured. Now about half of them again say they are offline, and FCP refuses to accept them when I try to reconnect. This time, it is just the audio file that is offline.
I remember this happening once before, but not to this extent.
I tried trashing the FCP thumbnail cache as well.
I tried renaming the files with .mov as well.
Am I trying to operate FCP on a Mac that is too slow or something like that? I've been using this version of FCP for a long time. Just using a different computer. And I'm stuck with this iMac.

Has the media itself corrupted? If so then you should treat yourself to the "FCS Maintenance Pack" .. there's nothing else like it out there for Final Cut Studio users :
http://www.digitalrebellion.com/fcsmaintenance/
Amongst its many tools you'll find a QuickTime Repair tool, and in a worse case scenario, a Media Salvage tool
If the media is ok then you should treat yourself to "FcpReconnect" ... yet another must have tool for every working FCP editor :
http://www.videotoolshed.com/product/41/fcpreconnect

Reconnecting offline media issues after moving files

Hi I am having a bit of a headache with offline media files in final cut. Our data requirements have recently outgrown the internal drives on our mac pro so we have switched to keeping all of our footage/projects etc on an external network raid (freenas). After moving all the footage over to the new drive final cut understandably asks to reconnect media so I point it in the direction of the new location and click search.... It searches through but finds nothing so I hit locate and manually point it to one of the offline files. It finds maybe 2or3 (out of over 2500) of the files then asks to locate more and so on. I spent an afternoon reconnecting all the offline media and all was fine until today when half the files showed as offline as final cut decided to start looking for them in their old location and not the new location I specified previously so I had to spend hours reconnecting them manually a few at a time again.
I'm worried that I would needto make a quick change to the edit and when I open a project final cut has a tantrum and says stuff is offline then won't let me quickly reconnect everything at once, instead making me do it one or two clips at a time
Does anyone know why it's doing this and what I need to do to make it stop???
Many thanks in advance!

I hate to say 'you built this house' but you might have. Although FCP's media manager has been crap since it came into being in v2... it still is the best way to move media around. BUT - THAT said, if you at least kept the CAPTURE SCRATCH folders intact it shouldn't have been that much of a problem to get stuff loaded back in.
I'd say... keep plugging away, bit by bit.
Good luck,
CaptM

Reconnecting Offline Media to Previous Project

I have been reading the previous threads concerning the subject of 'Media Offline', but have not quite found the answer to my particular problem. If I have missed such a thread, please point me to it. Thanks much.
I began editing a project in CS4. I should point out that all of the originally digitized HDV (to .avi files) footage is the same, orignally digitized footage. I was forced to continue editing this project on a completely different computer (both were PC's).
I imported the original CS4 .prproj file into CS5. As expected, all of my Timeline 'Sequences' as well as all of my sublips organized into numerous bins in my 'Project Panel' also showed 'Media Offline' when I tried to open them in my 'Source Panel.' This was before I re-imported all of the original .avi files (the raw whole tape files) into this newly created CS5 project.
I then re-imported all of the aforementioned originally digitized .avi files to my D: drive. I then created a new bin in my 'Project Panel' and imported those .avi files into my CS5 project. I assumed this was the method for re-connecting the original raw files to the old project pointers. The newly created 'Peak Files' were kept in a folder also on my D: drive. But after re-importing all of the original digitized files, I am still getting 'Media Offline' both on my Timeline edited 'Sequences' as well as any sublcip file in the bins of my 'Project Panel.'
Is there a step I am overlooking? Is there a re-connection process I am missing? Shouldn't I be able to take a CS4 .prproj file and open it up in CS5 and continue editing it there with the original source asset files? Or am I going to have to go through all of my original footage again and create new subclips and 'Project Panel' bins?
I should also point out that the raw .avi tape files play fine in my 'Source Panel.' It's just that none of my Timeline 'Sequences' or 'Project Panel' subclips will connect. Of course, I could just start over and go through all the tapes and reorganize. But that will take me two to three weeks.
I am running CS5 5.0.2; Windows 7 Pro x64; 12GB of RAM, nvidia GTX-470.
Finally, I should mention that I do also have all of the original tape files in .mpeg format residing on the same D: drive, although in a different folder if that makes any difference?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Tom

I have done this with several projects recently (CS4 projects opened in CS5) and although they are DV not HDV, I don't think you are doing this right. I copied the whole CS4 project with directories to the new machine. In my case, the captured files are in a subdirectory. I opened the CS4 project file and CS5 prompts to rename. The files are right where there were before, so no relinking is even needed. In some instances where assets were not, ordinarily relinking worked.
I imported the original CS4 .prproj file into CS5.
I did not import into; I opened the CS4 project with CS5.

Reconnecting Offline Hard Drive?

Hello all,
When using a firewire drive for editing, I'll frequently disconnect it to go somewhere else to work. When I go back to my machine (and after no one has touched it), I hook up the hard drive and mount it properly to the desktop like usual, but when I open FCP again, it says that the scratch disk is missing, and I must choose a new disk.
But why? As far as FCP knows, that disk never disapeared.
Any thoughts? FCP 4.5
-Mark

I guess the only thing I haven't done is shut the machine down.
My usual routine is:
Quit FCP
Unmount FWHD
Disconnect FWHD
later...
Connect FWHD
Launch FCP
Then I get the error.
I see where you're coming from with the idea of having the computer off first, however, I still don't understand why FCP 'knows' that the disk was disconnected at one time.

Reconnecting a offline clip besides the way they show you.

G5 Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)
i lost some of my clips, i tried to reconnecting them but they wont connect, does any one know how to reconnect offline clips
G5 Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)

i just got a new system and the video clips are on 2 external hard drives, there are red lines threw the clips, in the window, it says media offline in red. i clicked on the file n went to reconnect, located the clip n then clicked to choose but once it goes back to the first box where it is sopossed to drop to the bottom box nothing happen n i have to cancel out because it just dose nothing.

PSE 7 catalog error when restoring backup from PSE 5

I am attempting to move from PSE5 on XP to PSE7 on Vista using the backup-restore method, . Catalog is about 75 MB, data set is 56 GB, all stored on external USB drive. Tried restoring in new folder using both with and without restoring folder arrangement.
On PSE 5, most images were online, scattered across E: partition and external USB disk. Restoring to PSE7, files are all restored to a new directory OK, but new catalog lists all files in E: as offline. Let me repeat... the images are moved into a new folder on the new system, but are shown in the organizer as still on a non-existent E: drive on the new computer.
I am left with thousands of untagged images, all of them ther newest and most important in my system.

Mahlon,
First, some additional questions:
1. Did you do File > Catalog > Recover and File > Catalog > Reconnect before doing the backup? Thats very important.
2. On the old computer, was E: a partition on an internal drive, an external USB drive, or a network drive?
3. In the restored PSE 7 catalog, are the suspect thumbnails shown with a yellow question icon in their corner or a red circle icon with a line through it (like the international power symbol)?
4. When you say files are still recorded in the catalog as being on the E: drive, is that as shown in Folder Location view in the left-hand folder heirarchy pane, in the center Folder Location pane, in the Properties pane, or all three? (Check all three, because sometimes PSE will show different drive letters.)
> This will take a dozen hours on the old system, and I'm skeptical that it will work. PSE7 already converts the PSE5 database in or out of the restore. But it can't correct the pathname on the old system to indicate that the files are local and not offline.
Recovering the PSE 5 catalog, reconnecting missing files, installing PSE 7, and converting the catalog to PSE 7 on the old computer should take about 30-45 minutes (doing a second backup will take much longer).
Converting the catalog on the old computer is different than converting it on the new computer. PSE 7 has a different catalog format than PSE 5 PSE 5 uses drive letters to identify hard drives, whereas PSE 7 relies on serial numbers, and the internal database format is completely different. When you restore to the new computer and try to convert the catalog at the same time, the conversion needs to both update the new paths of all the files
and convert from the old catalog format to the new one, changing drive letters to serial numbers. But when you convert to PSE 7 on the old computer, the locations of files and drives havent changed its just changing the database format. So its entirely possible that conversion will go correctly. Then when you backup the PSE 7 catalog and restore it on the new computer, backup/restore is just changing the paths of files, not converting from drive letters to serial numbers or changing database formats.
So thats why its quite possible (though not at all guaranteed) that converting to PSE 7 on the old computer and then doing backup/restore could produce different results different process, different results.
You have two other options, both of which might lose tags or other catalog information:
1. On your new computer in its current state, reconnect all the files in the catalog to their new locations. Because they are marked as offline (assuming they actually are offline, based on the answers to my questions above), the Reconnect command will tell there is nothing to reconnect. However, you can force PSE to reconnect offline files using a trick described in step 4 of this FAQ:
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshopelements-6-7-faq.htm#_Quickly_reconnecting_la rge
This may or may not work, because its likely that the buggy conversion process has left your catalog in an inconsistent, unknown state, and there may be other problems still lurking. Also, persuading PSE to quickly reconnect whole folder hierarchies of files takes some patience (as youll see in the FAQ).
2. You can merge the PSE 5 catalog into a fresh PSE 7 catalog using this procedure: In PSE 5, save the tag definitions to a file, use File > Write Keyword Tag to write the keyword tags to the photos, copy the tag-definitions file and all the photos to the new computer using Windows Explorer, import the tag definitions into a fresh PSE 7 catalog, import the copied photos, and finally have PSE 7 automatically stack photos that used to be in version sets into stacks. These steps are described in detail in this FAQ:
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshopelements-6-7-faq.htm#_Merging_Catalogs
This FAQ is written assuming the source catalog is in PSE 6 or 7, but I think it should also apply to a source catalog in PSE 5.
There are a number of problems with this. First, its time consuming. Second, youll lose version sets, stacks of photos that are *not* visually very similar or taken close together in time, collections (albums), and projects. The PSE File > Write Keyword Tag command has numerous bugs (in all versions), and youll most likely lose at least some, and perhaps much, of your tags, star ratings, captions, notes, dates/times, and GPS/map locations. If you have raw files in particular, youll very likely lose much or all of the metadata, but depending on the source of your JPGs and other file formats, those files could lose much information too. See the end of this FAQ for more details on the known bugs:
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/#_Writing_File_Metadata

There was an error opening the database for the library "~/Pictures/Apertur

There was an error opening the database for the library “~/Pictures/Aperture Library.aplibrary”.
What's up with this? Aperture showed this error a couple times before quitting when I tried to open it.

I got the same error. Normally I would perform a Repair Database command by holding down Option-Command while launching Aperture, but that just gave me the same error without any options to repair the database.
Instead, I had to follow these instructions in the Aperture user manual. The key is to locate the Aperture library file on your hard drive and then hold Option-Command while double-clicking the Aperture library file.
Choose the REPAIR DATABASE option.
-- excerpt from user manual --
To repair or rebuild your Aperture library
Close Aperture, if it’s open.
Locate the Aperture library you want to fix, then hold down the Command and Option keys while double-clicking the Aperture library.
The Aperture Library First Aid dialog appears.
In the Aperture Library First Aid dialog, do one of the following:
To repair the permissions of the files within your Aperture library: Select Repairing Permissions.
This option should be used when Aperture can’t access some of the image files within the database or Aperture is unable to open the library itself. The Repairing Permissions option reviews each file in your Aperture library and sets the read and write access of each file where appropriate, allowing Aperture to access the files again.
Note: This option does not relocate referenced images whose master image files are offline. For more information about reconnecting offline images, see Reconnecting Missing or Offline Referenced Images.
To repair your Aperture library file: Select Repair Database.
This is the first option you should use if you believe there is something wrong with the Aperture library other than image file access issues.
To rebuild your database from scratch: Click Rebuild Database.
This option should be used as your last measure as it can be time-consuming for large image libraries. If you have tried repairing your database, and the issues you are encountering with your Aperture library still persist, you should use the Rebuild Database option. Aperture examines the library’s entire database and rebuilds each component until it reconstitutes your original Aperture library.
Depending on your selection, click Repair or Rebuild.
Aperture either fixes file permissions within the library or repairs or rebuilds the library, and then opens the application workspace.

OfflineRT, DV PAL and ProRes LT

Dear All,
Because of having another editor working together, I am copying my project and recompressing the media files by using Media Manager.
When I am recompressing, I am not sure if I should choose DV PAL, OfflineRT or ProRes LT. Well, maybe, I should ask if OfflineRT is good enough for my another editor to work, and she needs to do the syncing-up. How much worse is Offline RT than DV and ProRes? Any experience?
Thanks in advacne.
King

Offline RT is 320x240...4:3. DV is, well...DV. 720x480 and DV compression. ProRes LT matches your source frame size, but has the data rate of DV. SO if you are working with HD material, then this is the better option as it keep the frame size, so any graphics or text will be the same size when you reconnect the media back to what you have.
But why do this? Why deal with reconnecting offline footage back to HD and mess with issues that reconnecting can do? Get another drive that is the same size as the one with all the footage, then clone it and give that to the other editor. Same name and no reconnecting issues at all.
Shane

Reconnecting offline

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