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Offline Sequence Created Brought Over Pictures Too?
I created an offline sequence of my documentary to online it uncompressed to a G-Raid that was empty. The sequence I used to create the offline sequence was a DV timeline with DV, BetaSP, VHS and Tifs that was from a project that was on an internal drive. I notice that when I click on a Tif picture and look at its properties, it is still referencing the Tif located on the capture scratch on the internal drive. I want to take my uncompressed online sequence to a post house to lay it off to digibeta, but I’m afraid that there won’t be any pictures because they are still on the internal disk! Does rendering the pictures make a copy of them on the G-Raid for the online sequence or do I have to move the Tifs one by one from the internal drive and reference the online sequence to the copied pictures on the G-Raid. There are a lot of pictures, so I really don’t want to do this. If I could unmount the internal drive, I could answer this question pretty easily, but I can’t.
Dual G5 2.0, 4MB, G-Raid 800GB FW 800 FCP Studio Upgrade 5.0.3
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If you save it out as an uncompressed sequence it will be everything – what you see is what you get, every frame. That’s what I would assume you need to go to the post house unless they are also doing some work on it. Otherwise you’re likely to have missing media hassles, etcetera, and pay for edit time rather than just the layoff.
If you do need everything then I’d suggest having Media Manager make a copy of the project to the drive you’ll be taking in. Make sure you test that project out throughly.
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You can either move the tifs to the same drive and reconnect or after the online is done, just make a QT file as 10 bit uncompressed and take that file of the finished program to the post house to output to digi beta.
I have had many editors bring their project files here to output to dig beta and when they haven’t got all their media on the external drive, FCP wants to reconnect. Even if you have rendered, the fact that the file is missing means the project displays the deadly media missing warning, not the render file.
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That’s very helpful. I can now move all the pictures knowing that I have to. It will serve as a true backup of the project. Thank you very much.
Dual G5 2.0, 4MB, G-Raid 800GB FW 800 FCP Studio Upgrade 5.0.3
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Kathryn, your confidence in that project transport makes me nervous for you. If you really are just doing a layoff, I still think you’re much safer (and cheaper) bringing a QT of the full finished project – at least in addition to and as backup to bringing the project stuff. There are a lot of things that can go wrong and need trouble shooting when tranporting a project to a new place. It may work fine right off and it may not. Good luck with it.
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Good idea. I will do both the QT and bring the project. Thanks for the belt and suspenders advice.
Dual G5 2.0, 4MB, G-Raid 800GB FW 800 FCP Studio Upgrade 5.0.3
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