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Relinking clips from a second project in another project?
Hopefully I can formulate my problem clearly. 🙂
I have to restore and redigitize a 4 year old project from digibeta. At the time, 10 hours of footage was digitized. At some point between then and now, the project was re-opened, footage from the same tapes was digitized again (in smaller clips.), and new sequences were edited. I’ve been redigitizing the tapes from the first digitizing session, and of course, I can’t get the clips from the second session to relink to the clips from the first, despite matching tape names and timecode. Someone please tell me that there is some sort of workaround, and that I don’t have to digitize 10 hours of the same material twice.
Thanks in advance!
Oliver
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3 Replies
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Somewhere in the relink dialog, there is a check box to relink media only from current project. Uncheck that setting and try again.
If that does not solve your problem, you can do an on-line conform, which batch digitizes only the media in your sequence. To do this copy the sequence into a new empty bin, select it, and then go to “consolidate” in the menus. Specify the handle (extra media on each end of the clip — usually 60 frames is fine), and then batch capture the list of clips that will appear in the bin. You are capturing only the media that is actually used in the sequence plus the handles.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
Yeah, I tried every option in the relink window with no luck. I could just batch the sequences, but I need the source footage as well, unfortunately. Although that may be what I’ll do, I don’t know if I can devote another full day’s work to digitizing hours of footage twice.
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If you have clips already digitized in the first project, you can open the bin in the new project using file/open bin. You can drag the clips to a new bin, if desired, or just use them from the other projects bin.
Relinking is somewhat of a black art. Steve Bayes book on Avid Editing has a very detailed section devoted to it.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City
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