Nothing to Inspect After Importing Media

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Nothing to Inspect After Importing Media

I have been importing media to do tests on converted footage. Everytime the media was imported, there was nothing to inspect. I waited for the import to be 100% complete, but still nothing. I keep my final cut files on an external, so then I tried importing files from my desktop...nothing. Then I tried importing the raw files, thinking I got my compression wrong...nothing. They are .mov Apple ProRes (LT) files, and this is the first time I have had this problem because I have

done numerous edits in the past. The name of the project is Josh Twixtor Test in the below image (even though I never got to Twixtor, that is the name of the project. Thanks in advance, I appreciate any help I can get.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

Posted on May 14, 2012 11:53 AM

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Answer 1

James Cude

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1,587 points

May 14, 2012 12:27 PM in response to BryanForcaster

Check your user Preferences to see if you're in Proxy or Original mode and switch to the other- that generally causes this...

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Answer 2

May 14, 2012 2:37 PM in response to James Cude

I usually avoid Proxy's or Optomized media. For future reference, is orignal typically best? While this helped with a clip, when I tried doing it to other clips, the problem still remained.

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Answer 3

Tom Wolsky

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May 14, 2012 2:42 PM in response to BryanForcaster

It depends on the media. For your media, original media is fine. I wouldn't bother with proxy.

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Answer 4

May 17, 2012 10:26 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

Thanks. Any other trouble shooting suggestions? Still haveing trouble.

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Answer 5

Tom Wolsky

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May 17, 2012 10:32 AM in response to BryanForcaster

The application is looking in Jish event for the original media (assuming original playback is set in prefs). Are the files in the Original Media folder in the event folder on Mad Dog 1?

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Answer 6

May 18, 2012 1:17 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

the files are in man dog 1

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Answer 7

May 18, 2012 1:26 PM in response to BryanForcaster

The files are in the final cut original media folder, on the external (mandog 1), and the clip runs fine. But for some reason final cut says nothing to inspect.

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Answer 8

Tom Wolsky

Level 10

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May 18, 2012 2:20 PM in response to BryanForcaster

Did you open the file in any other application?

Try relinking it.

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Answer 9

May 18, 2012 7:31 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

I can open it with quicktime and import it to imovie fine. I dont know what you mean by relinking it. It is unable to locate in the finder, and when I open project preferences, it says 1 proxy missing. So i imported it as a proxy and now everything works fine. Any huge difference with the proxy's, because if not, Ill just continue working with them.

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