EDIUS 6.51 and unlinked files.

[ntbone]

I am working on a rather large project consisting of a few 100 video/audio files. When I open the file, it randomly decides that some of the files are not available. The icon in the system tray shows me the # of files it cannot find, and when I double click on the entry it shows the files as missing, but the files are there.

If I go to the clips anywhere in the project they appear just fine and play.

If I close EDIUS and re-open it, it often reopens just fine with all the files present.

I never had this problem with 6.0.

Anyone else experiencing this?

[antonsvideo]

where are the files stored? internal or external drive or network?

[ntbone]

All files are stored locally.

[antonsvideo]

is there anything unique about the offline files, like are they quicktime based? are the offline files video or stills or audio or titles?

[ntbone]

They are always video files from either a Canon 7D or Canon 5D MK III

[antonsvideo]

They are always video files from either a Canon 7D or Canon 5D MK III

are these files quicktime based? can you view the properties of such a file with mediainfo (free) in tree view and copy/paste the results

http://www.videoproductions.com.au/edius6/mediainfo.png

if they are quicktime based, what version quicktime player do you have installed?

[ntbone]

Which ever version came with EDIUS 6.51.

It is strange that any of this would matter, since the files play fine, even if unlinked. Relinking them does not work. The only thing that resolves it is to close EDIUS and restart it again.

The biggest side-effects for it, other then it showing x # of files not linked, Plural Eyes crashes, and it won't export.

[antonsvideo]

I think quicktime player gets involved in reading quicktime based files during load

are the files on the same drive or spread over several drives?

relinking should work providing you untick the exact match option

http://www.videoproductions.com.au/edius6/restore-offline-bin-timeline.png

[ntbone]

The files are always from the same drive. I have all my videos stored in the same partition.

I never had this issue in 6.x.

The problem videos refuse to re-link, whether I check or un-check the option to re-link them.

The videos still work just fine though from the time line, in the sequences they are in, and also work just fine if i drag them from the assets bin to the player.

So far the only consequences of the "unlinked" files is difficulty with both Plural Eyes and output. The only known solution is to close the project and reopen it again.

[antonsvideo]

next time you see this, can you give an example of the full file name, just in case EDIUS does not like something about the names

or can you uninstall plural eyes and see if you still get the offline files

[ntbone]

I can easily give you an example. All the files are from approximately the same location. There are several hundred files in this project, and randomly somewhere between 1 and 10 will have this problem. Its never the same ones, the same #.

Here is an example path:

V:\Recordings\2012\Camera (7D)\2012-08-11\

I am skeptical that Plural Eyes plug-in has anything to do with this. I only mentioned it because Plural Eyes does not function correctly, if the project opens and there are files that are unlinked. I haven't for quite some time used this on the project as everything is already synced.

[antonsvideo]

I can easily give you an example. All the files are from approximately the same location. There are several hundred files in this project, and randomly somewhere between 1 and 10 will have this problem. Its never the same ones, the same #.

Here is an example path:

V:\Recordings\2012\Camera (7D)\2012-08-11\

I am skeptical that Plural Eyes plug-in has anything to do with this. I only mentioned it because Plural Eyes does not function correctly, if the project opens and there are files that are unlinked. I haven't for quite some time used this on the project as everything is already synced.

I wonder if it is the ()

I have never tried them in file or folder names

[ntbone]

I suppose that's possible but I am skeptical. As I said this project loads at least a 100 videos from this folder and only a few come up with the (). My suspicion is a bug in 6.51. Possibly in the file handler for 5D MK III/7D files. I never had this in 6.07 and this project started in 6.07. It never happens with the wave files, or my camcorder videos. It only happens with clips from these cameras.

I can try some new projects and change the folder name to see if it goes away.

[antonsvideo]

if it is a bug, I am sure it will be fixed in the next update

[ntbone]

The problem came back with a vengeance. It was gone for a bit when I was using Windows 7 with 6.52 but it appears to be back again and this time happens a lot more.

It only ever happens with 7D or 5D MK III video files. Never with audio or video clips from other cameras, as far as I can tell.

You cannot relink, you have to simply exit and open it back up again.

Performance when playing the problem clips (which change every time) is horrible, but just where those clips are involved.

I am using the latest quick time. All my content is now on a raid 5 setup using a dedicated hardware raid controller. EDIUS and the operation system all run off of a solid state drive.