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Final Cut Pro - files wont relink

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yolatechno

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Jun 13, 2011
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I've got an FCP project on teh go, and my harddrive with teh video files died. I plugged in the backup, but for some reason nothing is relinking... Even though all the file names are the same, I'm getting a message "unspecified path".

Anyone know what this could be??
 
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thaboz

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Sep 6, 2008
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Relink

Easiest way is to relink the files, in FCP 7 go to [Edit] in the menu bar and select [Reconnect Media] then look at the first files, make sure you browse to the drive and select the clip with the same name on the external drive, after this it might/will find files in the same directory (otherwise select all files manually, bit of a pain but I've had to do it multiple times in the past, should not take you more than a hour max.) When all files are selected select relink and that should do it. Let me know if you have any issues.

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yolatechno

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Jun 13, 2011
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thaboz said:
Easiest way is to relink the files, in FCP 7 go to [Edit] in the menu bar and select [Reconnect Media] then look at the first files, make sure you browse to the drive and select the clip with the same name on the external drive, after this it might/will find files in the same directory (otherwise select all files manually, bit of a pain but I've had to do it multiple times in the past, should not take you more than a hour max.) When all files are selected select relink and that should do it. Let me know if you have any issues.

zijlstra:apple:me.com
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Thanks! However, finding the files is not the problem - when I click reconnect media it sees them, but after I select them a notice comes up saying "unspecified path"...
 
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thaboz

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initialsBB

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Oct 18, 2010
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You could try either exporting an XML of the sequence and importing that into a new blank project to reconnect, or creating an offline version of the project from the media manager, and then try reconnect.
 
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