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Transcontinental Workflow: Problem Relinking Media
My friend from New York directed a short film, and I am editing it in San Francisco. We’re trying to find the best way for us to collaborate on the cut.
He shot on the RED Camera and I used the FCP Log and Transfer function to transcode the files to 2K ProRes 422 QuickTimes. Then I used the FCP “Merge Clips” function to sync video with audio. I moved all the media to a portable hard drive and then tried to relink the media to the FCP project file. The video clips relinked fine, but the audio files gave me the “Attribute Mismatch” error. I forced FCP to relink to the audio files, but Final Cut lost track of all the in points I set on the audio clips. My merged clips, therefore, were no longer in sync.
Since moving the media and relinking gave me a bad result, I used the FCP Media Manager instead. The Media Manager copied all the media to my portable hard drive and created a new FCP project file. Then, all the clips stayed online, and all the merged clips stayed in sync.
Instead of sending QuickTimes to each other, the director and I thought we’d each keep a copy of the project media and send FCP project files back and forth. I sent him the hard drive that contained the project media and the new FCP project created by Media Manager. When he moved the media to his own drive and tried to relink the media to the FCP project file, he ran into the same problem I originally encountered. FCP said the the audio files had mismatched attributes and the merged clips went out of sync. He can try the same remedy and use the Media Manager to create new media files and a new FCP project, but when he sends the drive back to me, I assume I’ll have the same problem again, and the audio files won’t relink. I believe the merged clips are creating the problem.
Does anyone have a solution to this problem? Is there a better workflow for us? Will EDLs or XMLs work or will the merged clips still go out of sync? We’re both running FCP version 6.0.4.
Thanks a lot
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4 Replies
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Hi Conor,
Although you are running the same FC version, it seems that there is something different between the two machines.
This can be a thumb suggestion but, why don’t you try to set in the two systems the same FC preferences?
if you try that, just don’t forget to save somewhere the old preferences.
Rafael -
Thanks for writing back, Rafael. I suspect that the issue is not with our two computers. When I use the same computer and just move the media from one drive to another, the same problem happens.
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Then can be something related with volumes directories, files permissions, files finder info or so.
Try Diskwarrior or TechTools.
Rafael -
H,
there connor! I’m having the exatly same problem!!! do you happen to find a solution?
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