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Restoring an offline project.
Hey all, I am bringing an offline project back online and I am facing a problem that I have never faced before. The project didn’t originate with me, so there’s some difficulties that I am experiencing that I cannot seem to fix. The original editor captured a bunch of the tapes in one huge sweeping pass which is making my life miserable (30-40 minutes at a time). FCP seems to think there’s timecode breaks, but there’s not. What I want to do is change the media end point in the bin to a second earlier which, I think, will solve the problem but I can’t seem to get at it. I can’t click or control click on it to change it. I have tried relogging it and digitizing that clip, but it doesn’t connect to the timeline. What can I do to change this clip so that I can digitize it and have it link to the media in the timeline? Should I just recapture the newly created clip and manually link all the clips to this new mater clip in the timeline and adjust as needed?
Any insight would be awesome.
Thanks
Jeremy
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Not sure about the error you are having. I’m sure other can be more of a help. However,if you do recapture and the in point remains the same, you can do a replace edit on those clips in the timeline as opposed to relinking everything and having to adjust. Just an idea.
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Hmm, I’ll try that.
Jeremy
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JW may have the best solution.
If the original captures were not solid, then there’s little you can do to make the files work. What’s probably happening is that you are losing cohesion at the very end of the clip where you lose signal. This makes the total length of the clip erroneous. He should have captured to avoid hitting any piece of tape that had no signal. That’s NLE 101.
Do your best. And there is always a chance someone who’s gone through something similar may have a Hail Mary for you…I hope there is…
…but if not, I second JW’s advice.
debe
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Yeah, it’s pretty bogus.
What I think I am going to do is relog the clips, change the outpoints (one of the outpoints on one of the reels is three minutes off!) do a find all in the timeline for the name of that clip, reconnect those clips to the new media and adjust if I need to. Luckily, one of the clips is only three minutes long so I’m testing on that one first. the other clip is 36 minutes long, so I have to wait that long and see if it works, if it doesn’t, then it’s tine to recapture again for another 36 minutes. Oy.
To all you editors who like to capture now, or capture the whole tape in one go, this is why it is not recommended. Log and capture people, log and capture, I don’t care what you say.
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[JeremyG] “To all you editors who like to capture now, or capture the whole tape in one go, this is why it is not recommended. Log and capture people, log and capture, I don’t care what you say.”
A-freakin’-men to that.Kevin Monahan
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If you do want to adjust the ins & outs by a fixed amount, instead of re-logging all the tapes you can drag each clip into an open Log & Capture window, adjust the ins & outs by whatever time you want and log again (hit F2) – this might be quicker than running through the tapes again.
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Thanks, John, but that’s what I meant be relog and that’s exactly what I did. it seemed to work, but I won’t be able to tell until this thing is done rendering in………13 hours. I’ll know in the morning. By eyeball, the technique I described earlier seemed pretty damn close to me.
Jeremy
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If you don’t need all the media, then create a new offline project from the edit sequence in media manager, selecting “make offline” & “delete all unused media” and then add handles. Don’t include master clips or affiliated clips outside selection. Then batch recapture just that new project.
At least that way the main selected media is done without recapture and reconnect issues. Any other media required can be logged and captured to continue the edit.
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Yep, but unfortunately with this version of FCP (5.04) if the media is offline (or deleted) and you do that the Media Manager still wants to digitize all the media. That part is busted. This bug was supposedly fixed in 5.1.
Thanks for the suggestion though!
Jeremy
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