• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Online from long tapes- an idea

  Posted by Trinity Greer on May 11, 2006 at 5:59 pm

  I am on-lining a project that the offline editor like to do the digitize the whole tape thing. And my experience with media manger on his projects in the past have been rather hit or miss. So If thing go wonky I was thinking of exporting a batch list, cleaning it up in excell. Then re-importing into FCP as a new project. Problem with that is rebuilding the sequence timeline. Anyone have thoughts about that?

  Nick Meyers replied 19 years, 12 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Matt Gorney

  May 11, 2006 at 6:43 pm

  We have had good luck with the excell batch list idea, but you are right about the timeline (sequence).

  If you want to keep the timeline then make subclips from the timeline and then make them independent clips so they are their own files. If you still have the files linked to the media, then use media manager to copy the timeline’s media to a new folder. Although, I’ve learned (through this forum) that you can’t do that with offline media in version 5.0.x – only in 5.1

  Hope that helps.

  -Matt
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  Trinity Greer

  May 11, 2006 at 8:18 pm

  Thank for the feed back. I assume you mean leave the lo-res files on the system while using the media manger?
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  Nick Meyers

  May 12, 2006 at 12:46 am

  batch list os only for browser items.
  or rather bins.
  you’d have to do a separate list for each bin, if you wanted to keep any organisational structure you may have.

  if you want an equally simple way of dealing with the timeline, export an EDL.

  this wont contain ANY effects at all.

  best way is to use the Media Manager to create on offline sequence.
  delete unused media.

  the only real MM problems i;ve seen are speed changed shots going wonky.
  to prevent that from happening, or at least to hap you gete around the problem,
  put a copy of any speed change shots on a new, invisible track ABOVE the existing shot.
  on the copy remove any speed changes (best way it to matchframe, & cut back in)

  this will acutally prevent simple speed mods from going south on you,
  but it might not save shots where you’ve done speed ramps.
  for those that DO go south,you now have the original media, and you can copy/paste the effect.

  simpler than re-building everything.

  nick

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