Brief Cuts #17: Fixing Media Offline Footage

Media offline footage

It is like a horror movie. Or possibly a greek tragedy. One thing horrible, on the very least. You are residing your greatest enhancing life, all goes properly, after which DISASTER. All of your media is gone. Your total timeline is only a useless, gray mass of ineffective clips and your playback window shows nothing besides these two haunting phrases: Media Offline.

Why is your media offline?

At this level, it is in all probability tempting to surrender the enhancing life utterly. Do not do something drastic, although! We’ve got a fast and simple repair to deliver your media offline footage again to life.

Firstly, although, why has this occurred? There are a number of causes, however 9 occasions out of ten, it is as a result of your footage has moved. Lightworks creates a hyperlink between your footage inside and out of doors the system when imported, but when the footage leaves the situation to which Lightworks is at the moment linking, the connection turns into damaged.

So, you might simply put the footage again the place it was, after all, whether or not it is shifting it again to the unique folder or plugging a tough drive again in. However you would possibly need to preserve it within the new location, and that is tremendous too!

Fixing the media offline problem

Fortunately it is all a fast and simple repair.

Proper-click on a clip you need to deliver again to life, go to media, and hit relink lacking. A popup will seem together with your pc’s folders. Simply navigate your technique to the place the clip is now saved, click on on the clip you are making an attempt to relink, after which hit okay. So simple as that, the footage will come again on-line and can now operate usually in your challenge browser and timeline.

Choose a number of clips and do the identical factor once more to revive a number of clips! The one distinction is that it’s going to now say ‘restore’ underneath media as a substitute of ‘relink lacking’. I am not solely certain why, however the level is it really works the identical!

So, it would really feel like a fairly large problem to have all of your media go offline; the repair is fast and simple. And, after all, you’ll be able to at all times forestall it within the first place by not shifting your media. However for those who do must, not less than now you are coated.

Extra Brief Cuts

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