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Bin and Clip Questions
Okay I have a question on Bins and Clips.
I have worked on Final Cut Pro for a while (Since FC 4) so I believe I know the system fairly well. (but not trying to be cocky here … never works out to be cocky) … I always have something new to learn … and I like that. Keeps me intrigued on every project I work on for my clients …
ANYWAYS … getting off topic there. At the office, my boss asks me if we change the names of clips in one edit room and change bins in another … will a third edit suite see those changes? I told him NO … but I would see if there is a change on FCP 7 that does do that.
So I was wondering if that was an ability that can be done.
To better Clear / Clarify to you guys:
We have 3 edit suites 2 have FCP 7 and one has FCP 6 (its a PowerMac … boo for FCP 7 needing the intel chip) …
And we are all editing different programs using the same assets. I haven’t looked into Final Cut Server enough … one because that’s another cost for the company … that I would have to present and two, the heads here don’t want to learn something else new.So they want to edit the bins and names of clips in one suite and have the other suite see those changes … possible or not? ?
What I have been doing, is when I come into the office I open the other editor’s projects over the network and just copy their bins into my project.
Thanks for any help you can give.
-Raymond Tuquero-
Houston Based Freelancer
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[Raymond Tuquero] “So they want to edit the bins and names of clips in one suite and have the other suite see those changes … possible or not? ?”
ONLY if you give each of those bays an updated project file with the new names. If everyone sees those assets, and you change the name, but they keep the same project files, then all of those assets will go offline, and FCP will not be able to reconnect them, as the names are different. You would be able to do ti clip by clip, manually. But if they have edits that reference that footage, then renaming would be a VERY BAD idea.
If they just needed new bins with footage that would be one thing, but if their sequences have those clips in them, then that is a BAD thing. IF…and I don’t know this, you’d have to test it with ONE file…you brought their sequences into the one you will be changing the name, then change the name, they might know that those clips are associated with their cut. But I am not 100% on that. In fact, I am not even 50% sure on that.
Shared assets across multiple projects…do not rename.
Shane
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I appreciate it Shane. And that’s what I figured.
As for the network and everyone sharing the clips … I totally forgot about the fact that the sequences would have the same names. Yeah even batch capture would have a new hate for our new names as well.
Thanks again.
-Raymond Tuquero-
Houston Based Freelancer
http://www.rtuqvidere.com
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