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A Tale of Woe

A friend and associate of mine told me a tale of woe the other day.  He made 1,000 dupes of a DVD project and delivered them to his client.  Not long after that the client called with bad news.  There was a tiny, tiny error in the program.  A couple of seconds of the dreaded "Media Offline."  He told me, "It was the kind of error you could overlook if you took your eyes off the monitor for a second."  I said,  "It's the kind of error that you might miss if you're tired of looking at the program."  You know the feeling on a long form project where you say to yourself, "I'm tired of this section I'll just jump the play head to the next."

 

The simple solution is to use the Reconnect Media function before you output. Simply right click on the Sequence in the Bin and select Reconnect Media... from the contextual menu. 

 

Any Offline or missing Render files will appear in the Files to Connect Section.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Of course there is no substitute for carefully reviewing your program before output. This workflow is just a little insurance.


Posted by: Lee Berger on Nov 18, 2008 at 4:51:26 pm Comments (2) final cut pro

Comments:
That sounds like a great strategy
by Lee Berger on Jan 18, 2009
That sounds like a great strategy David. A sign off is always good policy.
Ugh!!! I hate hearing that...
by David Roth Weiss on Jan 17, 2009
Lee,

Before any long-form project ever leaves my hands and goes to duplication or replication, or in the case of broadcast, gets Fedexed, I always give my clients a choice -- they can either pay me my hourly rate to watch the whole show one last time for a final QC check, or they can watch it themselves. If they pay me, I'm fully responsible if I miss a problem. However, if they cheap out on me and QC the project themselves, it's all on them.

For the record, if the client still opts to QC the project themselves, they have to sign-off. At that point, I always offer them toothpicks, which I tell them will help to keep eyes propped open. So far, I've had no takers on the toothpicks, but I have had a few clients reconsider and pay me to take over.

David

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