Re: FCP won't connect to renders

Appears as though the exported XML (and editing a project in COLOR is NOT recommended) is not seeing the change in Target Render directory path.

A very common operator error is to load the Render Queue and then change the Project Settings render directory. COLOR creates the render directory immediately when the Render Queue is loaded... so if it was still looking at your default directory... that is where the new media went. But when the export XML is modified, COLOR will observe the change and create that path -- usually this results in a black sequence, but FCP appears to be trying to re-link to something, anything, and the original footage sounds like 'close enough', as your rendered footage all have new clip names and won't be found with a 'Search' under reconnect.

To fix this... might be as simple as moving the rendered material from the default directory (if its there) to the originally intended project-defined render directory.

Not the first time this has come up.

jPo

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