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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.

 

Screen shot 2014-10-24 at 11.02.23 AM.png

 

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.

 

Screen shot 2014-10-24 at 11.08.01 AM.png

Final Cut Express, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Oct 24, 2014 8:22 AM