FCPX - Relink, wrong framerate?

James,

Thanks for responding so quickly.

Naw, The only program I use to edit is FCPX. I sometimes view the files with Quicktime or VLC. But I never save the files or anything like that after viewing them in those players.

-Carter

*(So, I'm like, "What the phucking phuck...!?")*

"It's not necessary to be juvenile - your questions are more likely to be answered if you avoid such embellishments."

Hello Andy,

Welcome to "The Internet: where free speech reigns supreme". After my post receiving 3 replies within 24hrs, it kinda shunts that perposterous hypothesis, doesn't it? I choose to excercise my 1st amendment right and to avoid being censored -- and that should provide no actual bearing on the issue at hand. Afterall, if a patient is covered in tattoos head to toes, a good doctor will set aside personal biases in order to "help the individual".

So enough about my unncessesarily criticized means of anecdotal self expression -- On to your useful advice regarding my issue:

"Did you move the files to a different drive? If so, are you certain that drive is formatted 'Mac OS Extended'?"

- Yes, but I initially transferred the files to a non-properly formatted drive. After being unable to even view my files in the nonformatted external drive (another FCPX bug I became aware of), I transferred them again into a drive formatted: Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

"Have you tried trashing your preferences?"

- I did once a little while back, but it may be time to try that again. I'm about to head to work, so I'll have to experiment with that once I return home.

"If you trash the prefs and don't restore them, you will need to manually restore all your FCP X settings again, so it's a great idea to backup Preferences from time to time when FCP X is working well, then your backups are up to date."

- If I save, trash, then restore what's saved -- wouldn't that restore the problem as well? (my initial response to that suggestion)

Andy,

Thank you much for your advice about FCPX. I'll post my findings this evening.

-Carter

Hey Andy,

So this morning: I had just woken up, and I was probably crankier than I should've been. My bad.

Onward!

To FCPX: I did like you suggested, downloaded Prefman, backed-up, trashed, restored, and tried again to relink... and... "framerates don't match".

Whaddya think I should do...?

-Carter

Hey Andy,

I gave "Overwriting" a try. But, unfortunately that method will not replace the footage for each time that clip is used throughout the project within the Timeline.

Also, by dropping the replacement clip (which is actually the original clip to begin with) overtop the 1st clip within the Timeline, it does not retain the Keyframing information either.

What I find most puzzeling about this is: I have the original clip. FCPX claims the framerate does not match its records though.

A) What changed the framerates?

and/or

B) Can I [re]alter the framerates so that they DO match, and FCPX will accept the replacement (original) clip for Relinking throughout the dependent project(s)?

-Carter

So, it's been a little while now, and I'm still moderately frusutrated with being unable to relink event files to their original source files because the "frame rates don't match". Presumably because they were moved onto an unformatted drive without FCPX's permission. However, I repeat, they're the SAME original unalterted files (except apparently the framerate somehow).

Has anyone uncovered a more sensible solution to fixing this problem (other than re-drop the files and re-do all the work for every missing event)?

I'd very much like to be able to fix this mundane problem.

Any help that hasn't been previously mentioned would be very much appreciated.

-Carter

Right.

I agree that that's the cause of the problem. What I'm hoping for is a solution to fix this problem and once again use my original files, without having to redrop them into every project one-by-one an d reedit each and every one all over again.

Chya-know?

-Carter