• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Another media manager question

  Posted by Finn Connolly on August 6, 2009 at 2:15 pm

  Go easy on the n00b…it’s my first post *cracks open virtual champagne*…

  Anyway, I work on short form projects and regularly use the media manager – which despite what I’ve read after a quick scan on this forum seems to work okay for me.

  I usually use media captured from tape… until recently when I started using 50 minute QT files… Now despite whatever settings I use (handles etc) the MM project is the total size of all the media combined instead of only the media used in the sequence/project. I have tried this on FCP 5 and FCP 6 with the same result. I can’t get it to work. I think that it might be something to do with reel IDs…

  Does anyone know how I can archive a project where the source material originated as QT files and not tapes?

  Thanks

  Finn Connolly replied 17 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

• 

  Shane Ross

  August 6, 2009 at 3:19 pm

  Give them REEL numbers. The Media Manager doesn’t break big clips into smaller ones if they don’t have a reel number, like Music, graphics…and QT imports.

  Shane

  

  GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
  Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def
• 

  Finn Connolly

  August 10, 2009 at 10:57 am

  Thanks a lot for the response Shane, I’ll give it a try.

  Someone else (not on this forum) recommended me the same thing, and specified that the reel numbers need to be kept short due to the amount of characters allowed in the code – although I’m not sure if that is correct, as I usually use reel IDs of up to 10 characters…

  Thanks again,

  Finn

Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up