Reinstalling FCP will force "Reconnect Media"?

I was advised to reinstall the full version of my FCP because there seems to be something corrupting my FCP files. General Error and other issues have made many of the files unreadable or corrupted.
Will reinstalling the full program do I uninstall the entire FCP first before reinstalling FCP?
Or jus reinstall the full program?
Will the newly installed FCP cause any problems like recognizing the "Capture Scratch" files? Or does the new install version continue working with all the files on both internal and external drives?

Uninstall everything using this utility:
http://www.digitalrebellion.com/fcs_remover.htm
Then reinstall. Whether or not it will work no one can say, you'll have to wait and find out.

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At this point it take 6 plus clicks per file missing, times two because I have to reconnect these clips in the sequences as well... times 500 because that's how many offline files I have.
My lord, I've already done this to half of the project, I can't do it any more... where am I going wrong or is this a bug? If so, please tell me there is a workaround.
The file I'm working in is a feature film, so it's huge... I can't start over at this point.
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I have a project that I have restored from a DLT backup. The project file and the all the media are now on a SAN which I access from my G5. Since this project originated on a different editor's computer all of the clips in my project are ostensibly offline within my project. All of the media files are located in a single capture scratch folder on the SAN with the same filenames and reel numbers. As such, I figured that when I used "Reconnect Media" with "Reconnect All Files in Relative Path" checked, all of the files would automatically relink. However, everytime I attempt to do this, the only file that is reconnected is the original file which I manually selected to establish the file path to the rest of my media. If I use the "Search" functionality and instruct FCP to search the capture scratch folder one file at a time, without fail, it will automatically find the media and reconnect it. Yet, I cannot seem to batch reonnect, as it were.
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Hi Nat,
I don't have a direct solution, and you might you've been doing this already. Although you didn't describe this. I think that what I would try to do is:
- Copy the project (backup).
- Open the project, and when it tells you that 132 clips and 714 render-files are offline, I'd select the checkboxes in order to 'Forget' the files.
- Hit OK.
- FCP 'forgot' all the links to the original files. So you forced errors from that perspective by doing this.
- Try to reconnect again.
Just a thought...
All the best
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PS What version FCP are you running?

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Help! Somehow FCP5 no longer recognizes my clips as video files.
The problem started when I transferred some clips to another drive so I could reformat my primary external drive. (It's new, and had been formatted for PC, and I felt I needed to reformat it for Mac.) I moved the files off the drive using my PC, held them on another external PC-formatted drive, then used MacDrive 7 to put them back once the formatting was done.
When I plugged the newly formatted drive back in, my Mac no longer recognized the files as video files because the file extension had been removed... It thought they were "Unix executable files." I added ".mov" to the end of the file names and they then seemed to work fine in QuickTime.
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Did the back and forth between PC and Mac file systems screw up my files somehow?
Yes. Unfortunately the move has almost certainly caused the loss of the resource data that would have been (invisibly) attached to those files.
By adding a specific .mov extension after the fact you will have helped the Mac correctly identify the file type / asscoiations but also significantly you will have physically changed the filename eg from "clip" to "clip.mov". This means that when you come to reconnect the media in FCP , then FCP will be looking for files that no longer exist at the given path eg when specifically looking for our example clip called "clip" of course it won't find it.
Try this as a test... first remove the ".mov" extension from one or more of the clips, select those clips and press Cmd-Opt-I to open an Info window for the selection. You'll see an "Open with:" popup and in that popup you should choose QuickTime Player (if its a Unix Executable then it will initially list Terminal as the appropriate app, you have to choose Other... then in the open dialog choose Enable > All Applications and then navigate to and select the Quicktime Player app as the appropriate app). After you've done that restart FCP and see if you can now reconnect to those clips.

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Hi all,
I have an interesting situation with a client. Never seen this problem/scenario before.
Here is the setup....
--> Client is logging all footage on her computer.
--> I provided her with a formatted Excel document that will allow me to import a batch list.
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--> After importing the log, FCP appears to like the log information. Everything is in its proper column, the clip icon (still with a red slash through it) and all of the necessary info (Clip name, Media Start and Media End, Log notes, Reel, etc) are all properly placed. FCP Even calculates the duration of the clip for us.
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so, what you're saying is that you duplicated the contents of the capture scratch, from Disk A to Disk B
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Keep hitting the same bug in FCPS2 Final Cut when reconnecting media and wondered if anyone else was aware of it and had a workaround. I'm reconnecting footage in FCP and searching drives for it to relink (onlining an offline FCP project). If whilst its searching I come out of Final Cut and go to the finder or a browser and then go back in when the search has failed, none of the buttons respond. This means I have to force quit FCP and start from scratch.
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Report that to FCP Feedback.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/finalcutpro.html
Meanwhile, remember the joke about the guy who went in to see his doctor and said, "Doc, whenever I hold my arms up like this, it hurts."
The doctor said, "Well, don't do that, then."

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1. Open clip in Qt and export, as mentioned.
2. Bring that clip into FCP.
3. Look at the Media Start timecode of your original clip in the Browser window and make a note of it.
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6. Save.
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