• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Media Manager: Clips go missing

  Posted by Chris Dixon on September 5, 2008 at 3:35 pm

  There was a thread posted about this back in February, but there doesn’t seem to have been a solution so I am reposting.
  Here is the original thread.
  https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/8/974635

  My situation:
  I edit segments on FCP for a 30 minute show.
  These segments have many speed adjusted clips.
  When I am finished with the segment, I media manage it and hand it off to another editor with another machine who edits all the segments together into a 30 minute show.
  When I media manage the segments, the new project frequently has holes in the timeline where the speed adjusted clips were. The render files are there so it looks fine if you play the sequence in the timeline.
  But if the new editor makes a change to the sequence, the render file is lost and so is the clip. If you roll the edges of the clip, the media is still there, but the in and out points are way off and the speed rate is different.

  I have been exporting QT conversions of the clips and importing them into the media managed sequence as a workaround, but this is very time consuming and counterproductive.

  We updated to FCP 6.0.4 a few months ago and this stared happening.
  We didn’t have this problem in version 5.

  Here are my MM settings:
  Copy media referred by duplicates items
  include render files
  DO NOT include master clips outside selection
  (because some of my projects have 30 minutes of unused b-roll)
  Delete unused media from duplicated items
  Used handles 2 seconds
  Include affiliated clips
  Base media file names on clip names
  Duplicate selected items and place into new project.
  Include nonactive multiclip angles

  Both systems are Mac OSX 10.4.11
  Dual 2GHz Power PC G5

  Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

  Chris

  Chris Dixon replied 17 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Jeremy Garchow

  September 5, 2008 at 5:03 pm

  The easiest way to handle off speed variations is to either paste the entire clip that you are slowing down/speeding up at the end of the sequence (so that it can be rebuilt with that media if you have problems on the other machine) or place the original non time remapped clips on a new sequence and media manage that sequence as well for later rebuilding on the other machine.

  Or

  You can export a self contained (not Quicktime Conversion) movie and reimport that into your project as you have been doing.

  Jeremy
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  Chris Dixon

  September 8, 2008 at 1:31 pm

  Thanks Jeremy!

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