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issues locating media when matching back to bin from sequence copied from duplicate project
hello friends,
i am working on a project and having problems matching back to footage in a bin from a sequence i copied from a duplicate project. here’s the jist of it. i’m cutting a TV show and am cutting in the master project. my assistant is a busy cutting selects in a duplicate project. when his selects are finished, i open his project and copy his sequence into a bin in my project. when i open his sequence, find a clip i like, i match back to the bin (shift+f) to get to the footage so i can also have access to clips that were shot around the same time. sadly, when i do this from his sequences, it’s not matching back to my master footage bin. instead, it’s telling me i need to import the footage because it doesn’t exist in the project.
is there anyway to reset the metadata from the media associated to my assistants sequences so when i matchback to the bin, it finds the media in my project and look for it in his?
this is a huge issue i’ve found with final cut over the years and now it’s really becoming an issue with this current project. hoping someone else had solved this issue.
all the best,
will
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Well I think I understand what you’re trying to do. I can only give you the way I handle it.
I often take work home (no, I have no life other than this, that’s true enough). So I have a portable raid that I drag back and forth. The projects are matched using the same directory structure: one my internal raid and the other the portable. However, even though everything is named the same the Mac OS is smart enough to know that one “Raid Set” is different from the other “Raid Set.” (Curse you Steve Jobs). The project files are just fine (I keep them in DropBox so they’re automatically synced between my machines). My trick is to use ChronoSync and make sure all the media files and other associated files (music, graphics, etc.) One big part of this is to make sure all the media files, including the audio and video render files and the waveform displays, all this miscellaneous bits are in mirrored directories and that they care kept in sync. Otherwise I get a lot of missing media message when opening the project on the opposing machine. Then I have to do some hand work to relocate everything. If your media is not equal on the two machines, say one set at full rez and the other at proxy, well, you’re always going to have trouble.
That help at all?Non-linear: all the time and nothing but.
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