• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  will FCP reconnect to a later version of a cut?

  Posted by Sean Davison on October 24, 2007 at 7:08 pm

  I’m due to online an HD series which is rapidly running up against transmission.

  Does anyone know if I can media manage the latest version of the offline – Batch capture that at full res, then re-link the final approved version of the cut to the conformed media (as you can with Media Composer)

  Obviously there would be issues with any footage added to the cut after I start the conform but as the bulk of the source footage will not change will this work – I’m trying to get ahead of myself!!!!

  Nick Meyers replied 18 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Arnie Schlissel

  October 24, 2007 at 9:52 pm

  Do I know if you can do it? No, I don’t. Do I know if I can do it? Well, I have.

  The media manager in FCP is only as good as how you logged & captured your source tapes. If you were exceedingly anal about it, you should have no problems at all. If all of your tapes are named “001” and all of your source file names start with “Untitled”, then you’re in for trouble.

  Other problems are subclips & nested sequences. I generally avoid both, so I’ve never had problems with them.

  Arnie
  Now in post: Peristroika, a film by Slava Tsukerman
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  Nick Meyers

  October 25, 2007 at 12:11 am

  FCP uses file names to connect clips to media.
  it cant easily see beyond that and simply look for reel# and TC in a media file.

  you CAN do what you want, but you just have to obey the “rules” and go with the way FCP works.

  Media Manage your show using the COPY mode, to create a new set of trimmed off-line res media.
  you can create an OFFLINE version of this same sequence, and batch capture into that.
  problem is that when you MM, the files have one name, and the clips have another (good one apple!)
  in FCP6 you can use the “conform file names to clips names” or “conform clip names to file names” function to fix this before you create the offline sequence for recapturing your HD

  when you continue editing, you have to use the trimmed off-line version, so all the names match.
  if you need a new shot, by all means cut that in,
  and then you’d need to re-capture that in HD down the track

  another, more reliable approach would be to create the offline HD version first,
  capture the full-res,
  then use Media Manager to recomposes all that new media to your off-line res.

  continue your edit in the re-compressed version.

  neither off these methods go hand in hand with your need for speed and efficiency.

  nick

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