-
Weird things on Import
Hi,
some questions concerning import of AVCHD Card Media:
1. If you look at the Pic, I am missing some features in the import window, such as the 2 buttons to choose the layout of the import window, as well as the menu in the lower right in which I can choose about the clip appearance and to hide already imported materials. Why am I missing those things?
2. If I go through all the Clips in the card, and some clips I select entirely, some clips just different sections and some clip I do not set in & outs at all. In the end I select all the clips in the card and press “Import Selceted”, but it then also imports the clips that I did not set any ins or outs to. I do not want those to import as well. How can I avoid that?
Thanx a lot.
Greetings,
Sascha Engel
TIME BANDITZ Productions
http://www.youtube.com/taikang -
27 Replies
-
I should mention the following: What I am looking for is a similar workflow like in FCP7 in the L&T window: I go through all my clips, select ins & outs of the clips or parts of the clips I like and then take it in at once, without import the clips that I did not select. Possible?
Sascha Engel
TIME BANDITZ Productions
http://www.youtube.com/taikang -
It looks like your movies are already converted.
To get the features you are looking for, you’d need to use the original avchd card structure, not the rewrapped quicktimes.
You can’t import partial QuickTime movies, just like fcp7.
-
And a third Q, concerning the same topic: Let’s say I have a long clip and I selected multiple in&out points, but at one point I forget to set the in&out with Shift+Command+I, but only I, then I erase all my other Range selections I already made. Is there a way to go back, so I don’t have to reselect everything from scratch? Undo does not help in this case. It’s rather frustrating, that with one wrong click you can lose a lot of work.
thanx.
Sascha Engel
TIME BANDITZ Productions
http://www.youtube.com/taikang -
Hi Andy,
Thanx for answering. but the point is, that I want to transcode my selected bits to ProRes, which is only a small part of the whole footage chunk. So, you are saying, I have to create an archive of the cards again first, and then access the archive to get the options?
To Jeremy:
Nope, the movies are not converted. It’s the original AVCHD Card structure, copied to my internal RAID.Sascha Engel
TIME BANDITZ Productions
http://www.youtube.com/taikang -
That’s a bit lame. If you have a 15min clip and you set more than 10 Range selections and then they are all lost and there’s no way back? Not so good WF.
-
You can turn them into favorites. then you don’t loose the in and outs. I haven’t done it during import yet, but it should work.
-
Of course I deselect the Close Window Option. It’s not inconvenient, but when working long hours, it can happen you forget to Hold Cmnd key and then all is lost, not horrible, but not very smart. And yes, it goes on my Feedback List.
It would be great if somebody could still explain me, why I don’t have the view options in the import window and how to select clips, parts of clips and non selected clips and then only import the selections and not also the non selected clips on the card.Thanx a bunch.
-
I really do not understand your answer: Of course it was possible in FCP7: in the L&T window, I did it all the time.
As I said: I DO have the original card copied onto my internal Raid. FCPX also recognises it as card.
This is why I do not understand, why I miss the options in the window and also I’d like to know, how to import not clip by clip, but do all my ins & outs for the whole card and then import only the clips that were defined by range selection.Sascha Engel
TIME BANDITZ Productions
http://www.youtube.com/taikang -
[Sascha Engel] “Thanx for answering. but the point is, that I want to transcode my selected bits to ProRes, which is only a small part of the whole footage chunk. So, you are saying, I have to create an archive of the cards again first, and then access the archive to get the options?”
On your screengrab, there’s a folder that is called “converted stuff” and the files appear to be QuickTime movies.
What camera is this from?
-
Hi Jeremy,
sorry that is confusing from my site: I just took the screen grab from that folder – since the Cards I am ingesting are very confidential material,
but the when I go to import of the actual cards, I get the same Import window, which is missing a couple of features.Greetings,
Sascha Engel
TIME BANDITZ Productions
http://www.youtube.com/taikang
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up