Media Offline, but its not

I am having the same problem. I even reinstalled the HVEC video extension as well to help ensure DR can see them but I am stuck...UGH!!

[Dwaine Maggart]

What type of footage? If you restart Resolve, does it come back? For a while?

Hey,

I'm running into a similar problem. Footage from a mavic 2 pro and A7s3 keep going offline, even though its really not. Hope I will still hit my deadline. Turning the problem shots into prores4444 now, hope that helps. I'm on a macpro 16".

[Dwaine Maggart]

What type of footage is that? And how much do you have in the Media Pool?

And does it come back when you restart Resolve?

Scanning through the thread this seems top be a common problem. I have only run into it when editing a feature film. It has never happened on smaller short form projects that I can remember. I go to the media pool and choose to relink. Go back to the folder and suddenly it recognizes it in the timeline again. But I can play them in the preview window. Not sure why the timeline keeps losing the files.
These are BRAW files from a Mini Pro G1 4.6k not all of the files go missing. Just a few random ones from time to time. Very strange.

[Dwaine Maggart]

Mac?

Here's an even crazier detail that I just found. When I double click the clip in my timeline this opens the clip in my preview monitor with the in and out points selected that constitute the portion that is used in the edit. When I play it back the video is visible on all portions of the clip except between the in and out points that are used in the timeline. The audio plays through the entire clip including the edit points. So it may be something of a render cache issue.

Yes this is on an iMac Pro. I just upgraded to Davinci Resolve Studio 17 beta last night.

Also thanks for the quick reply. Is there a way to set preferences so that if someone replies to my post I can get an email or alert or something? I'll have to check into that.

[Dwaine Maggart]

When you create a message, there should be options below the text entry screen. One of them is "Notify me when a reply is posted."

Your crazy detail is crazy. Perhaps related to a cache issue, if you are using caching.

Yea I started using smart render. It filled up my memory in a day or 2. I solved that with some settings but my machine is handling the files just fine for the most part without rendering. But I'm still in assembly edit. Not really much going on other than some reframing of shots, and a bit of stabilization here and there. Once I begin color grading or pass it on to a colorist I'm sure the smart render will come in handy then. Thanks, so far it's just a matter of relinking. Maybe I should close out of resolve at night instead of just putting the machine to sleep, after I archive my latest edit in the cloud.
Thanks again.

Hi There,
Since I've installed resolve 17 studio version on my PC, I got a large number of Media Offline issues on my SSD (1TB half full).
With previous versions it was not that relevant but now it's nearly for every editing session.
Of course all clips are well located and not off line but sometimes they can all disappear or just some of them.
In Deliver this will stop the rendering, in Edit part of clips can go back online by just moving the mouse over them.
The best way to solve is to exit Da Vinci and reopen the project,
Any idea ?

Updated to 17 Studio and all media is offline. No matter how I try relink the clips or change source folder. The media plays fine via a media player from its storage location. New project and re-importing the media doesn't help either. H264 4k Footage, Dell XPS 15 i7, 16GB RAM, 64bit

Thanks

Check if your GPU driver is up to date too

Drivers up to date

It seems that any clip that was filmed in any frame rate other than 24fps shows as offline media. So frustrating. Any advice?

Greetings,

I am suddenly getting a "Media Offline" prompt when I have not changed the path and I can clearly see that the footage is there. Sometimes whenI play the footage it plays aand flashes "Media offline" simultaneously. I have unlinked and re-linked the footage. Any idea what this could be? I am using Davinci studio with a mac. The footage was shot in 5K 60fps. Thanks

I have the same problem but I have 1080p 30fpd quality. Does somebody know what to do?

[Dwaine Maggart]

Start a new project. Add ONE media file that's not working to a timeline. Assuming it's black or Offline in the Media, Edit and Color pages, save a project archive, which will include the media. Zip the .dra file and put it on a file sharing site and provide a link here.

Also create a diagnostics log from the Resolve Help menu. Put that on the file sharing site and send a link.

Thanks Dwaine,

Please see link as requested. The diagnostics log is included twice - one is for the test project you requested, and the other is a log for the original project I was working on that I first experienced the issue.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

Thank you again for your help and let me know if there is anything else you need

Regards
Byron

I upgraded to resolve 17 mid-project (Regret) I am experiencing the same problem. All of the footage is online apart from my CanonXF705's H.265 MXF files which play sound but no visual and cannot seem to be linked.

I went back to 16.2.7 and of course since I upgraded the database now the projects will not open in 16.2.7.
So now I need a solution so I can continue the work in 17.

Any fixes?

[Dwaine Maggart]

@BYRON: You have an old NVIDIA driver installed. Update the driver for your GTX 1050 Ti to the current driver on the NVIDIA Driver Download site.

When you run the driver installer, select Customize and Clean Install.

@Max, if you have an NVIDIA GPU, make sure you have the current driver for it installed.

@Max, if you have an NVIDIA GPU, make sure you have the current driver for it installed.[/quote]

I don't have an NVIDIA card.

Run a iMac on MacOS Big Sur with a Radeon Pro 580 8 GB. Everything is up to date.

@dwaine This thread would suggest 17 just doesn't support certain codecs yet, can you confirm when it might?

Thanks for your help.

@Dwaine the update of the NVIDIA drivers solved 1 of the 2 big problems, that being that DaVinci can now read all of my footage - thank you so much for that!

The other problem still remains - none of my color corrections save after closing the project. The nodes that I add to each clip are still there when I re-open the project, but the nodes are either empty nodes (ie none of my color corrections are saved within the node), or they come up as black/red/greed nodes.

Thank you again for your help! The update to the drivers is a life saver!

Byron

[Dwaine Maggart]

Are you using a non-English locale?

[Dwaine Maggart]

@max: free or Studio version?

Can you provide a link to one of the Canon files that works in 16 and not in 17?

Hi @Dwaine. Apologies if I'm being slow but I didn't understand the question "Are you using a non-English locale?"

I bought the studio version in Switzerland, but I am now in South Africa for a few months and downloaded the latest Beta version online. This is possibly the dumbest answer to your question and if nothing else only provided some entertainment to all who read

Thanks

He's asking about the settings of your system for localization.

[Dwaine Maggart]

I'm really asking if this is the issue:

viewtopic.php?f=36&t=125515#p689272

@Uli Plank thanks for the help! Once again this kind of terminology is lost on me unfortunately. Could you expand on "localization settings"?

Thanks again

Okay that fixed the saving of my edits issue! I changed my region to US and going forward my edits are being saved. All the old edits remain green/red/black and I would have to manually re-edit each node so I might as well start again for these ones.

Thank you again for all the help - I have learnt a lot in the last few days!

Byron

[Dwaine Maggart]

Beta 2 is just out. Should fix this issue.

Simple solution! Davinci Resolve Studio 16.3 beta 3 . Playback menu - delete Render cache - all

I struggled for weeks with this media offline but not offline error. I was running 16.1.2 studio and one day after not opening a feature film project for several weeks, it opened up with all media showing online in the media pool, but the player and viewer windows wold only recognize media as offline. I upgraded to 16.3 as Dwaine recommended. Unfortunately, I learned at that upgrade that my dongle was pirated.

I caught the B&H sale and bought a dongle with the free micro controller upgrade last week. Yesterday I was excited to install resolve studio 16.3 b3 again with a real dongle and load up my project. I was sad to see that the same online - but not offline error persisted. This was beginning to remind me of my toddlers tantrums where he would break down crying about some paradox like " I want but I don't want!", so I took a few breaths and looked at the forums again thinking it may be some cache error..

YES! That was it. I went to Playback Menu - Delete Render Cache- All, and Abracadabra! my media was back online and happy. Much easier than relinking 300 some clips by hand

Thank to everyone on this knowledge base for their support in helping me search out a solution!

My late-Jurassic Mac system still chews up 4K Prores: (OXS 10.13.6, Mac Pro 4,1->5,1 96Gb Ram, 12 core 3.333, 12Gb Nvidia Titan XP, BMD Decklink Duo 2 I/O, Caldigit Fasta USB3/SATA 6G card)

@Dwaine

Please see my post
viewtopic.php?f=36&t=126069

I still got media off-line issues even with 17.2 Beta, less than before but still.
If I close DV and restart then it work again...

Ive attached the log file.
In that case I was rendering a 5:24s clip in 2 formats DNHR UHD and H.264 UHD.
First went well but the other failed ...
No reason, it's the same clip !

Let me know please.

@max: free or Studio version?

Can you provide a link to one of the Canon files that works in 16 and not in 17?

Studio version. Here is one of the canon clips I still cannot get online without converting to prores first.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

17.2 does not solve the issue!

Cheers.

[Peter Chamberlain]

@max: free or Studio version?

Can you provide a link to one of the Canon files that works in 16 and not in 17?

Studio version. Here is one of the canon clips I still cannot get online without converting to prores first.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

17.2 does not solve the issue!

Cheers.

and this is from the CanonXF705 and you recorded as H.265 MXF?

and this is from the CanonXF705 and you recorded as H.265 MXF?[/quote]

That’s correct!

FYI, it's playing with video and audio in both of my systems.

With 17.0b9 on PC (and using an SSD for user caching, if that matters), I am also getting intermittent (like 1-2 times a workday) "Media Offline" on the timeline.
* In my case, quitting and restarting Davinci has so far resolved it.
* Relinking does NOT resolve it - still says offline even though I can see the file (and even though restarting resolves the problem).

@bounceHouse

As same problem but 0 reply from support...

Do you have the latest driver from NVIDIA like 457.30 it solves a bit ?

For me it's only happening on UHD mp4 files from Osmo pocket or phone, no issue with BM Raw files
When I monitor the GPU MEM it looks like there is a kind of memory leak with a GPU full MEM alert, but what it strange I can render a DNHR UHD mov without no problem then same clip rendering after in UDH mp4, media getting off line on some of my mp4 clips ... and sometimes not.

Very random problem

Convert those files to DNxHR or Cineform.

Of course Uli but it used to work very nice before beta 17

sadly all my troubles went after the installation of that Beta which is also a milestones for studio users !

@oilofolive, I have updated the Nvidia drivers from 452 to 457.30, and 2 days on I've had one Media Offline problem that required a restart. So I agree - fewer, but not eliminated.

Hey there, I am having the issue described specifically with MOV files. All are appearing as "media offline". I've done many restarts and updated to the latest NVIDIA drivers. No change. Using a 1650 Super. Would love any tips you have.

@brdfrdsn, also try @Douglass Hall's suggestion: Playback menu - delete Render cache - all

@bounceHouse thanks for the suggestion. It didn't do anything for me. It's worth noting that this is only happening on MOV files from a specific camera, all other file types are working including other MOV files. I'm wondering if it has something to do with the codec. Camera is Fuji XT4 shot in F-Log.

Update: My hunch was correct, it was a codec issue. Maybe this is common knowledge but H.265 is not compatible with DR out of the box. I installed HEVC Video Extensions from the Microsoft store which solved the issue instantly. We're good to go

Microsoft is a bit late to the HEVC party

Hey folks I just wanted to post my problem I was having and what I did to fix so it might help someone else. I've been using resolve for about 2 years now "Resolve 17 beta" but decided to reset my PC win 10 to clean any junk off it. So after reset I found my projects I've been working on would not play H.265 codec files, but they would just say "media offline" so I tried to relink various ways to no avail. Till I came accross this video "How to fix DaVinci Resolve Media Offline with HEVC H.265!!! NOT RELINKING VIDEO!!!" So I headed to Microsoft store and downloaded the "HEVC Video Extension" I found I had already bought this 2 years ago, so I installed and voilà resolve recognized my H.265 files and all is good now with my projects. Hope this helps someone, God Bless.

I have problem with this "Media Offline" too.

Studio Beta 17.06. Windows 10. Footage is from a7sii - 60fps.

For me this problem only appears when make changes to clip attributes from the timeline, from media pool this is no the issue. When drop the footage framerate from 60 to 24 the media goes offline. Timeline is 24fps. It only affects media on the timeline but still ok in media pool. Solution is to delete clip from timeline and drop it again from media pool. Then I'm executing ythe change of the framerate it does not go offline anymore. Once I had only a half of the clip that went offline he other half was playing ok. Weird. Did not have this problem when was working with 50 and 25 fps. All codecs and nvidia drivers are up to date.

Regards

I have the same problem and I noticed on my setup that if media have thumbnail in Windows explorer it works fine. If Windows explorer is not showing thumbnail then media is offline in media pool. None of the above solutions worked..

[Dwaine Maggart]

In a File Explorer window, go to:

C:\Program Files\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve

and run CaptureLogs

This will place a Resolve log file named similar to this on your Windows desktop: DaVinci-Resolve-logs-20181228_140434.zip (You may not see the .zip extension if your system is set to hide known extensions).

Then open Windows System Information and do a File - Save (Not a File Export), which will generate a .NFO file.

Place both those files on a file sharing site and provide links to the files here.

If you are a new Forum user, you may not be allowed to post URLs. If this happens, just put a space near the front of the URL, so the system doesn't think it's a URL.