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.

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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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    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?
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    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.
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  • Render files going offline

    Hi Everybody,
    I am using Final Cut Pro 7 and each time I open the project Render Files show as offline and no matter how much I try I cannot reconnect them, cannot find them.
    I have the main folder for the project and I am the only editor using this computer yet it happens every time. I read couple of discussions but nothing helped I still have to render every day I open the project.
    I am working on two projects at the same time, but each projects has its own folder and I reset the scratch disk. Even when I work on the same project for a week it happens the same.
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    First, it's always been impossible in my experience to reconnect render files.  Just the way it is.
    People report offline render files every once in a while here so you might do some searching to see if there's a solution. 
    Make sure the drive with the renders is on the desktop BEFORE you launch fcp and the project.  Are all your drives formatted macosextended?  Do you have a minimum of 10% free space on all drives (and 20% on your startup drive)?  You might try launching a recent autosave of the project to see if that makes any difference.  Are any of your drives connected via a network?  Probably not a good idea.  Try and render to a local drive. 
    Have you tried deleting your fcp preferences?
    https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2491
    I'd do some basic maintainence and troubleshooting steps
    https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2591
    Good luck. 

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

  • Reconnect simple render files!

    This should work, I would think . . . but it doesn't seem to!
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    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.
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    Because what FCP typically does is throw the unreferenced render files into the trash. So they are most likely gone.
    Shane

  • What are the "rules" regarding render files?

    OK...one PO-ed user here, wondering *** is going on...
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    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?

  • Corrupt render files

    Can corrupt render files cause artifacts like small square white blocking?

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  • Missing render file/project will not render

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  • Reconnect Media - Unable to Reconnect All Files in Relative Path

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