Re: Using Proxy Media Issue FCPX 10.0.3

Jay,

When clips go offline, it's the software telling you that it can't find the source files it needs to create the display clips.

That might just mean the original clip is offline - which happens when you have media stored on a drive and that drive is dis-mounted.

It can also mean that the clips are still there - but that the software simply doesn't know where to look for them. Since X is constructed around the organizing principal of a relational database, keeping the relationship between where assets are stored and where the program "thinks" they are stored is a big deal.

When you captured your clips, you got the choice (whether you realized it at the time or not) to either link to those assets wherever they were stored and merely have your events reference them - , or to duplicate copies of the footage into your actual Events for internal or external storage.

How and where you set that up to happen is likely the key issue here.

Removing a drive, copying files via the finder, or anything else that alters the specific location where the Database in X expects them to be can cause assets to go offline.

Sometimes getting them back is just a matter of "reLinking" the files in X. But I've seen users "think" they are relinking to their original files, only to discover that they've made multiple attempts at setting up the FCP-X storage structures with multiple events and multiple projects and that they're actually NOT linking original files to original locations at all.

The X world of original clips, proxy clips, and links to useable copies of clips in the sharing libraries - any of which the software might use to populate your projects - is nowhere near as simple in X as it was in Legacy - where everything was just a pipe to a Capture Scratch and that could be re-linked easily because it was a simple lookup, not the central hub of a database where everything linked to it needs to expect to find it in a virtual spiderweb of metadata connections.

With this new complexity comes a lot of relational flexibility and power - but definitely requires some learning to manage.

I'd highly recommend you look on the web and read up on Events and Projects in X and how they operate and where they expect to find their assets.

Without that understanding, it's easy to have stuff "go missing" and not have a clue as to why or where.

Let us know how your search goes.

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