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Overwrite Clips? More Master and Affiliate
Hi Everyone
I understand from yesterday’s post that
“If you drag or copy/paste a sequence from a different project (e.g. from another system) the clips will be independent…they will have no affiliation to the original master clips, even if they are actually identical by reel and timecode. No way to fix that, except to overwrite the same clips from your project replacing them.”How might I overwrite them?
I’m creating a project from 2 different but originally related projects. Project A has the Master Clips. Project B has one Master Timeline originally created from Project A footage. Media was lost for both Project A and B.
I took Project B and “Saved As” Project C. I copied bins from Project A to C. I’m redigitizing the master clips copied from A and of couse they bear no relationship to their affiliates anymore. Is there any way to avoid having two sets of media in Project C? ie 1) redigitized master clips 2) redigitized Final sequences? Is there really a way to overwrite media and in ProjectC recreate Master-Affiliate relationship?
What is the best way to approach this situation?
Thanks for all your help.
David
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5 Replies
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What version are you using? If you drag the independent clip into the browser you’ll have the option to make a master clip.
“I’m redigitizing the master clips copied from A and of couse they bear no relationship to their affiliates anymore.”
This doesn’t make sense. Affiliate clips can only be in the same project. They should reconnect if you batch captured the material correctly. You should then be able to reconnect the media to any other project as needed. This assumes the material was captured correctly with good timecode and reel numbers in the first place.
All the best,
Tom
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Hey David,
I don’t think you want to “overwrite” your material – it sounds like you just have to get some organization out of the way and then batch capture your material.
1) Scroll over to your Reel column in the browser – when you captured the original material before rearranging projects did you keep the titles on your tapes and fill out the Reel name in the capture window when you were capturing so you know what clips are associated with what tape?
2) If you did, great just select the clips in your bin that associate with each specific tape and batch capture for that tape/reel. If not, you can manually change the Reel column according to what tape you think the clip is associated with, and then do batch capture for each tape.
You should be able to get away without having duplicate footage if you implement this correctly. Hope that helps.
– Evan
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I wrote that comment. What Meant was that you should find the master clip in your project that the orphan clip should be linking to and edit it into the sequence replacing the orphan. This would be horrifically tedious with a lot of clips. If its only a few, not so bad.
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Thanks for the clarification John. “Horrifically tedious” sums it up if I were to use this approach. I guess I’m left with a project that has duplicate media. As this is an archival project this duplication migh not be ok.
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Thanks Tom.
Sorry for the confusion. I agree that affiliate clips can only be in the same project as the master clip. Originally the media used to create the Final Sequence and the Final Sequnce itself were in the same project. Ove the years media for this project was lost. The Final Sequence was cut and pasted into a new project and redigitized creating new master clips for that project.
Now, going back to the original project I find bins with all the tapes/reel info. I don’t see that Final Sequence though. I copy that back into the original project from another project.
At this point there is no media for either the original project or the Final Sequence. My hopw was that once I redigitize the master clips in the Tapes/Reels bin in the original project, footage would reappear in the Final Sequence.
My redigitizing the master clips does not reestablish the master affiliate relationship. The Final Ssequence has to be redigitized on its own, even though that exact media exists in the bins with the redigitized Reel/Tapes.
It was suggested that I changing the tape names in the “Reel” Collumn. I’m not sure that will work since they are identical.
Would Reconnect Media work in this case? Thanks in advance for any ideas
David
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