• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Replacing footage with footage that’s been converted to ProRes

  Posted by Roy Choi on December 3, 2009 at 12:06 am

  We were editing our footage while another team converted the current footage to Apple Pro Res 422 (HQ).

  In the editing process, we worked with some clips that were Apple Pro REs 422 and others that were lower grade MOV files. We now have to replace those MOV files with the same files that have been converted to Pro Res. Is there an efficient systematic way of doing this, or do we have to eyeball it and do it all by hand, one by one?

  Thanks!

  Brandon Adams replied 16 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Alan Okey

  December 3, 2009 at 12:28 am

  Try this:

  Make sure that all of your ProRes clips are of the same length and filename as the clips that they are replacing, and that they are all in a discrete folder together.

  Select all of the existing clips to be replaced in your timeline, right-click (or control-click) and choose “make offline.” Save and close your project. Reopen the project, and when the offline media dialog box pops up, manually select the new clips in the folder you created. As long as the option to reconnect the other offline clips by searching the same directory is selected, your offline clips should relink to the new ProRes versions.
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  Brandon Adams

  December 3, 2009 at 4:19 am

  You can try right clicking in the sequence and “reconnect media” and choosing the new ProRes version. I did this when editing with Red reference files as 1K, then finished and replaced with 2K reference files. It worked perfectly, so it might for you too.

  However, the process mentioned above is probably faster depending on your sequence length.

  -Brandon

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