• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Media Manager help

  Posted by Dan Forgione on October 7, 2005 at 2:40 am

  I am taking on an editing job from a producer friend of mine who needs some help. She has given me her 2 lacie drives jam packed with stuff, and an absolute mess. She needs the drives back after the weekend so I want to move all the neccessary files/footage/clips/etc over to my own drives, so that i can work independently on the project, and be able to give it all back to her without a hitch in links.

  I am using FCP4.5 on a Mac G5 and I know media manager is designed for this, but I am worried her disorganized drives, and the scattered files will somehow get mixed up in the process and make things worse.

  My goal:
  Both firewire drives have clips/source files in them, I want it all on one of my drive, organized and in full, seeing as I dont have any of the dv tapes to recapture anything.

  My issues/ questions:

  1. I am sure she has more than one batch of files named “untitledxx” in her numerous capture scratch folders. If I do media manager will it keep them separated and properly linked to it’s intended clip, or will Media manager throw them all together, thus confusing FCP?
  I noticed an option on media manager that asks if you want to base media file names by their exsisting file names, or clip names.
  She does a decent job correctly labeling her clips in the bin, just not the captured source files, by basing the media on clip will it solve my issue mentioned above?

  2. Deleting unused media…I should uncheck this right? otherwise i may loose clips I need or want to use? Is this why the green bar labeled modified is smaller than the original bar? What does including affiliate clips outside selection mean?

  3. And my best bet for right now is to copy the media, rather than move, decompress, or use existing? that way if anything messes up, i can still use her drives.

  Sorry for the novel, but I just want to get this pproject on a smoother track, rather than spend hours figuring out how she did it.

  Any help and or advice will be greatly appreciated.

  Thanks
  Dan

  Dan Forgione replied 20 years, 7 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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