Re: Trouble relinking and re importing in FCPX

Hi Trig,

The yellow sign just indicates that something has changed in the Event, this does not necessarily mean you have offline media.

Do you see any missing media in the Browser or on the timeline?

Best wishes,

Ronny

Aha, now I see that you are dealing with a recovered drive.

During drive recovery files can get changed, sometimes they are incomplete. It all depends on how much data they have been able to recover. There is no guarantee that you will be able to relink all the files on a recovered drive to an existing project. You will be able to import all the files you have recovered and to start a new project with them.

Best wishes,

Ronny

Yes that's correct. If you can import the recovered clips maybe you could try to replace the offline media in the Angle Editor with the recovered clips. If they have the same length that could work.

Best wishes,

Ronny

The ghosted waveforms are reference waveforms. These are faint audio waveforms that are sized as if your audio levels were set to 100%. This makes it easier to see peaks and valleys for audio that was recorded very quietly. You can turn them off in Preferences > Eiding > Audio.

Best wishes,

Ronny

There might be some inaudible audio, could also be noise. There definitely are visible waveforms, so this means a signal was recorded at that point. And when FCP X sees waveforms and you have reference waveforms enabled it will recalculate the existing waveforms to create a reference waveform for them.

Best wishes,

Ronny