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what if I DID want some destructive editing?
This may be a silly question: When I’m working on documentary projects that use 20 tapes for 15 minutes of footage, I dont’ like logging each clip, I like importing the entire tapes so that I can quickly scan through and find the bits I’m going to use. once the project is done I’d like to be able to dump everything that I’m not using, but I don’t know if there is a technique to doing this. I could export clips that I like individually, but then they have no connection to the orignal tape media. I know this is a backwards way of using FCP but sometimes its just so much faster than having to log stuff which I’ll never use. So I sacrifice space to save some time. Is there any method or feature I’m unaware of that allows me to purge all the unused media and redefine the source media.
thanks very much.
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media manager
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As mentioned, you can use Media Manager to condense your project down to just the media being used.
But I recently discovered that if the media used was captured without time code — for example via an uncontrolled device — then media manager will not copy only the used media.
You’re then stuck with having to export each clip individually, or export the entire project as a single “flattened” movie file.
Dean Sensui — http://www.HawaiiGoesFishing.com
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So you see…logging and then capturing is still the best way to organize your projects. 😉
Kevin Monahan
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I’m with Kevin. Logging and capturing is the only way to go in situations like this. Media Mangler is too risky.
Shane
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I routinely log and capture an entire tape in one solid chunk, and media managing that hasn’t been a problem… yet. After doing 40 1-hour programs, so far so good.
It was in a 30-second spot that I discovered the problem of capturing without timecode.
So ironically, it was the smallest project that caused the biggest problem.
Dean Sensui — http://www.HawaiiGoesFishing.com
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[TJDP01] “I know this is a backwards way of using FCP but sometimes its just so much faster than having to log stuff which I’ll never use.”
If you don’t want to use it, don’t log it. Watch the tapes when logging and log only what you want. Easy enough and a lot less hassle of using the media manager to trim and copy all of those files.
Jeremy
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