site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: pro-apps-dev@lists.apple.com Hello all, Thanks, - David Heidelberger _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Pro-apps-dev mailing list (Pro-apps-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/pro-apps-dev/site_archiver%40lists.ap... Sometimes in Final Cut, particularly with newer hard-disk cameras, you can wind up mistakenly digitizing or log-and-transferring media with way more audio tracks than you need. It can become a hassle to constantly be disabling audio tracks while you're editing, so I wrote a little utility program that can strip out excess audio tracks from Quicktime movies, basically batching the same functionality you get when you go into the properties window in Quicktime Pro and delete tracks by hand. For a while, this was fine. You could delete the audio tracks and Final Cut would make the media offline. When you reconnected, it would give you a warning about not being able to find all the tracks, but would reconnect to the media no problem. Somewhere around either 6.0.2 or 6.0.4, something changed and now when I reconnect the media, after going through the warning in the reconnect files window and hitting "Connect," I get this message: "The file does not have enough audio tracks to reconnect to '0003RG' at time 08:59:10;14 in sequence '0003RG'. Click 'OK' to make this item independent and go to the next clip or 'Cancel' to skip all clips from this file." This is using P2 media, and the timecode is the media start time of the clip. Trouble is, neither option seems to do anything. Cancel just cancels out. And hitting okay leaves the clip offline. I've figured out a semi-workaround using Batch Lists and/or XML, but that complicates what was a very simple utility. I guess I don't really have a question, but I'm wondering what should happen if I click "OK" in that dialogue box? Shouldn't it reconnect to my media, but make it a new, independent clip? Since it doesn't, is that a bug? Also, as an aside note, I think Final Cut should be a bit more flexible about missing audio tracks, like it used to be. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com