• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Problem with copying 5D project and media

  Posted by Tom Downey on August 2, 2010 at 10:27 pm

  I’m shooting two camera interviews with the 5D. In order to sync them and make multiclips I make a reference movie to marry the audio to one video clip and then reimport this to sync to the other camera’s video.

  This all worked fine, until I copied the project and media so that my editor could have a copy to work on independently.

  On the copied project and media, FCP spends a lot of time searching for movie data. It seems to find the movie data, actually, and everything works, but even on reopening the project the next time, presumably after it’s already found the ref movies, it still stalls for a few minutes to do this again.

  Any suggestions on how to prevent it from doing this?

  Thanks.

  Christian Hart replied 15 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Michael Gissing

  August 2, 2010 at 11:03 pm

  Are the reference movies self contained? If not, they have to search for the relevant media each time which may have been moved to a different drive or folder.
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  Tom Downey

  August 2, 2010 at 11:10 pm

  They are not self-contained and I know FCP does have to search, but I’m wondering why once it finds them, FCP still has to search again the next time I open the project. Any way I can stop that from happening? Thanks.
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  Michael Gissing

  August 2, 2010 at 11:15 pm

  If you just copy a project and media from one drive to the other, you will break the link that FCP makes with media. If you use Media Manager to copy a project and media to another drive, it resets the media pathways to the new drive so the project file has the new links.

  In the case of basic media, all that is required is a single reconnect and away you go, but the non self contained will keep looking for the old drive and folder pathway as that is bedded into the quicktime. At this stage, you could either make new self contained versions of those files and replace the non self contained.
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  Christian Hart

  August 4, 2010 at 12:26 am

  The only really reliable way to share media without a server in fcp I have found is to make an identically named drive with the same folder structure and media. I find the planning and the fiddling with media manager takes more time than it’s worth and isn’t always reliable.

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