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Media Manager Copy vs Use Existing
Hi,
A followup question to my earlier post.
If I want to make a duplicate copy of a timeline with all the used media, will I get better results through media manager by using the “Copy” function or the “Use Existing”? The FCP manual suggests that both “Copy” and “Use Existing” are viable solutions. I’ve already attempted using the “Copy” function, but only about 75% of the sequence’s media was copied over. Media Manager kept flagging error codes 1 and 2, so much so, that I just had it skip any files that encountered those errors.
Any suggestions?
Patrick
G5 Dual 1.8
FCP HD 4.5
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7 Replies
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[Patrick] “I want to make a duplicate copy of a timeline with all the used media”
Patrick,
What is your objective? Where do you want to copy to, what do you want to use it for?
DRW
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Always use copy, unless you’re really short of drive space. Sounds as if some of your have gotten corrupted. Or the drive has bad sectors, or is going south.
OT: anybody know why going south is a bad thing?
All the best,
Tom
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD
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I was always under the impression “going south” was just a euphemism for down the toilet…down for south, up for north. Merely directional and not locational.
But that’s me.
debe
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Thanks for the replies.
The goal is that we are taking a project shot primarily on MiniDV to a post facility to bump it up to Digi-Beta, via a Kona card. In case any problems arose, I wanted to create a self contained version of the final sequence on a single harddrive (in this case, a LacIe 500gig), just in case we had to reference any of the source clips.
The post facility asked that I create a master MiniDV tape of all the DV material in the sequence. They will digitize that in via the SDI inputs on the Kona. Then they’re going to drop in all the motion graphics and effects work from the project file that I’m going to create. (They encouraged this workflow to cut down on render times and any artifacting that may occur from an uncompressed timeline).
I just wanted the media managed copy as a backup.
-Patrick
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Tom,
As a southerner myself, originally from Pre-Katrina New Orleans, I too wanted to know the the origins of “goin’ south.” And so I found the following excerpt on the WORD DETECTIVE website, which I quote in full.
According to Robert Chapman’s Dictionary of American Slang (Harper Collins, 1995), “go south” (or “head south” or “take a turn south”) means “to disappear; fail by or as if by vanishing,” which certainly seems to cover a computer or other device that simply stops working and cannot be revived. “Go south” can also mean to abscond with money or loot, to cheat at cards, or simply to sharply diminish, as in “Enron investor confidence went south after Ken Lay sold his personal stock holdings in the company.”
Mr. Chapman’s dictionary dates the first appearance of “go south” in its primary sense to the 1940s, and the “to abscond” meaning to around 1925. But the indefatigable word sleuth Barry Popik has found a citation from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch of May 1903 in which a glossary of slang heard at the St. Louis fair reported that “gone south” meant “left the town; not heard of; to steal.” So we can safely assume that the major senses of “gone south” were already in use by the beginning of the 20th century.
There seem to be two theories about the “south” in “gone south.” It may simply be a reference to the map-making convention that “south” on a map equals “down,” so to “go south” would be to head for the metaphorical bottom. A more intriguing theory is that the “south” originally referred to Mexico, to which one might well run in the early 20th century if one wanted, or needed, to elude legal pursuit and “disappear.”
DRW
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I have a copy of disk warrior, so I’ll run all my drives through that to clean up any drive issues. Hopefully that will help some.
Do you guys have any alternative strategies to how to get a copy of my master sequence with just the used media? Or is media manager that only way to go in FCP?
Thanks,
patrick
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I can think of a couple ways, export an xml and then import that xml into a NEW project and redigitze just that sequence. This way, the only media you need will be in that new project’s capture scratch.
Use the media manager to create on offline of that sequence, but don’t change your sequence settings (keep them dv). Open the new project and recapture.
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