Q: FCE media offline but not reconnecting
edit 2: Alright, so if I select and highlight each individual clip on the timeline itself it allows me to reconnect the media. I would still like to know if there's a solution though because I have a lot of clips and having to reconnect media for each individual clip is incredibly frustrating when I know FCE is capable of doing this in batches. So... any help would be wonderful.
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Original post:
Hi! I've been working on this video project for a while. I tend to prefer Premeire or Final Cut Pro but my workplace only has Final Cut Express.
I needed to log out and log in a different user since I was going out of town and when I logged back in because some of the files were on a share drive, I had to reconnect media. Which is fine - I've done it before, no problem. I got the media reconnected, re-rendered and then looked down at my timeline and realized that there were clips that hadn't connected.
Here's where it gets weird though. Everything looks connected in the Bins. I found all the files, connected everything. FCE has greyed out the reconnect media button. I can't connect anything else.
And yet as you can see below, despite the media being there, I am still getting the media offline message.
Does anyone have a solution to what's going on here. I'm completely baffled and I've never had anything like this occur before.
I'm running FCE version 4.0.1 on OS X 10.6.8
edit to add: The three other videos that I've been working on simultaneously did not have this problem. I still had to reconnect media but this is the only video that's doing this.
Thanks for all your help! If you need additional details just let me know.
-Stephanie
Here are is a larger image of what's going on.
Final Cut Express, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Posted on Oct 24, 2014 8:22 AM

