Joel Lehmann
May 18th, 2008, 03:30 AM
Hi
I work with FCP and an external hard drive where I keep the media- and render files. My comp is a bit slow in rendering (G4 PB). Where I work, sometimes there are brief electricity blackouts. I can't afford power backup right now.
When the hard drive dies, the files go offline. Reconnecting the media files is no issue of course.
BUT: Final Cut behaves, as if I had never rendered the sequence. There is no message about lost render files, and "Reconnect Media" shows the "render" -Tab greyed out. The same is true when I restart Final Cut.
While it normally works to restore an auto-saved version of 10 minutes ago, this whole issues gets on my nerves.
To re-render my comp asks for 7 hours or so.
Please give me some advice. What's the problem? What could I do to make sure the link to the render files is re-stored? (other than the unsuccessful "re-connect media").
I work with FCP and an external hard drive where I keep the media- and render files. My comp is a bit slow in rendering (G4 PB). Where I work, sometimes there are brief electricity blackouts. I can't afford power backup right now.
When the hard drive dies, the files go offline. Reconnecting the media files is no issue of course.
BUT: Final Cut behaves, as if I had never rendered the sequence. There is no message about lost render files, and "Reconnect Media" shows the "render" -Tab greyed out. The same is true when I restart Final Cut.
While it normally works to restore an auto-saved version of 10 minutes ago, this whole issues gets on my nerves.
To re-render my comp asks for 7 hours or so.
Please give me some advice. What's the problem? What could I do to make sure the link to the render files is re-stored? (other than the unsuccessful "re-connect media").