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Final Cut Pro media management
Sorry guys just have to vent – – Final Cut Pro really sux sometimes!! I’ve taken a project offline and had to take it back online and, unfortunately, I can’t re-capture the original clips due to the fact that my editor didn’t leave 10 second handles at the beginning of the tapes. So I use the media manager to create a copy which I can batch digitize and get the project back online. However when I do this, all clips which have had a speed retime applied to it have stuffed up what the speed originally was, hence when I go to batch capture it comes back with an error message. For instance a clip that was originally timed at 50% is now 538%. What gives??? Basically I cannot recapture my timeline thus meaning that I can’t fix this simple little mistake.
I’m getting so frustrated with anything to do with media management and FCP – if I move media from one drive to another it can stuff up the file references to those files by completely deleting them – there’s another problem! It’s just so clunky!!
Philip Johns
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Welcome to the incredible world of Media Manager on Final Cut Pro. According to Apple this little “feature” is greatly improved these days.
Speed Changes completely screw with re-captures.
No handles on tapes are definitely a bad thing and will mess up ANY editing system that is trying to bring a project back. 10 second handles are not really required, at least 6 should do. If you get into that situation again, you might consider dubbing the tapes first before you capture into the system.
Generally when bringing projects back we have about an 80% success rate. The other 20% we have to re-capture manually and fix manually in the timeline. Media Manager is the least “Pro” feature of Final Cut Pro.
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I’m sort of dreading this. I haven’t yet done a lot of media intensive work in FCP, or attempted to recapture an FCP originated project. But my recollections from using FCP quite a few years ago for a bigger project aren’t great.
Currently we’re editing in Avid and finishing in FCP, which is working fairly well because we’re doing all the media management and timeline capture prep in Avid first. In reading this post I thought to myself, perhaps it would be easier to export the sequence to Avid and then use Avid to prepare it for recapture before sending it back to FCP. But I’ve never tried anything of the sort, and who knows how much important information would survive the journey.
The lack of leading preroll thing will always be a problem, but some systems will make it easier than others. In Avid you can crash record the clip with as little head on it as you can manage and if you get enough of the clip it will automatically relink.
I think improved media management and a media database of some sort should be way up near the top of Apple’s development list. Being unable to reliably recapture a sequence is totally unacceptable in the serious professional market I think. Being unable to relink to available media based on reel and timecode is a huge negative as well.
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Hi
I feel the pain. Its so frustrating when the manual sez you can do something, and you cant (like nesting HAHAHA)
FWIW, i never media mangle my projects, When a project is done, I either have a native quicktime or a tape of the whole show, as well as the show with no or minimal graphics. WHen clients call to revise or repurpose, I use that as a a source, and recapture only whats needed to make the revisions.
its an old school “dub down the master” way of doing it, but it saves a lot of recapture headaches.
hope this helps
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Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.
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