• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  ProRes422 to OfflineRT and back again

  Posted by Jammal King on June 6, 2009 at 9:05 am

  Hello.

  I recently found that you can offline, to save space and computing power.

  I have all my captured clips on my macpro at the studio, but i sometimes need to do the editing somewhere else, and my macbook doesn’t have enough space for all that prores footage. (usually 5-7Hrs, about 260 gigs)

  So i read about OfflineRT and i found 2 workflows.
  The one where i capture everything lo-res OfflineRT and then FCP recaptures only the clips with the tc used in the timeline
  The other one where i make an offline sequence, edit that and then reconnect to the hi-res files.

  The problem is that the second one is not well documented, so i made my own workflow, but the problem is that it’s not 100% fullproof. (a test rather than workflow)

  I have some captured ProRes422 footage, and using media manager i recompress it to Offline RT.
  – i give in’s and out’s and drop them on the timeline.
  – export as xml
  – import the xml, with the sequence set to ProRes422 1280×720 24p (wich into the same project adds a folder with a hd sequence and the offline files)
  here comes the tricky part
  – select all files in the new folder and reconnect to media

  and the problem is that FCP reconnects only the first file i selected, although they are all in the same folder.

  What am i doing wrong and what is the correct workflow for this kind of setup ? (the one where i keep my original files and recompress them to offline rt)

  Jammal King replied 17 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Rafael Amador

  June 6, 2009 at 10:22 am

  [Jammal King] “my macbook doesn’t have enough space for all that prores footage. (usually 5-7Hrs, about 260 gigs) “
  Hi Jamal,
  What you should do is to get an external HD. Whatever the codec you edit, is not good to store the media in the System HD.
  A FW800 would be OK or Proress.
  rafael

  http://www.nagavideo.com
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  Jammal King

  June 6, 2009 at 10:35 am

  yes, i know, but the mid 2008 macbook i have only has FW400, that’s why i was looking into offline editing, and the fact that i don’t need to see the full-res clip resised to 33% on my laptop monitor if i don’t see it full screen on another display

  (wich anyway, with the intel chipset my mb has, even for 720p isn’t possible in RT, don’t know why, it plays 1080p mkv’s and 720p prores422 files in quick time like a charm, but in fcp i get 12-15 fps in fullscreen)

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