Any tricks to reconnect relocated reference movies? – PLEASE HELP!

[Spencer Schilly]

can’t you try file> reconnect media?

[David Roth weiss]

Why are you exporting referecne movies rather self contained movies?

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[Smushmac]

Because it’s the only way that multiclips seem to work properly. It may have something to do with the fact that we capture with capture now?

If we don’t use reference movies, the multiclips don’t relink/synch accurately

[Smushmac]

yes of course 🙂

That doesn’t work, for some reason when they “connect” the media is all off, like it’s grabbing stuff from different parts of the same footage.

[David Roth weiss]

Just for the record, a “reference movie” is not a captured media or video file. A reference movie refers to a video file exported from the FCP timeline that is not a self-contained video file, but instead must reference the underlying source media files used to make the cut.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[Smushmac]

Yep I know that. What I need to know is why I can’t reconnect the reference movies to the muticlip sequences simply because I have moved them from the location that I first saved them to.

Shouldn’t it be the same thing no matter what folder they are physically in?

[David Roth weiss]

That’s not a problem here. I suspect that your media files at work and at home are in different places and different directories and thats causing the FCP database problems.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[Brynn Sankey]

I have never tried importing reference movies, I have always worked with self contained movies if I am re-importing. But just a thought – isn’t it likely that FCP is getting confused between the timecode of the referenced source media, and the timecode embedded into the reference clip itself?
Is your problem remedied if you use self contained clips? I know you are trying to avoid this approach because of the multiclip issue, but i’m wondering if your problem may stem from FCP getting a little confused as to where it is supposed to get its timecode from.

[Smushmac]

hmmmm interesting. Thank you so much for your response.

I’m wondering though…. we are capturing media using capture now, and then we are creating multiclip sequences, but the synch seems unreliable. Do you know why that is?

Would an alternate workflow be to export fully self contained reference movies? And if we do that, is there any possibility of batch capturing from the tapes at some point down the road?

[Brynn Sankey]

What are the specs of your mac? (I ask this to be sure your system is powerful enough to handle playback of multiple streams) and is your scratch disk an external hard drive (or any other hard drive that might not have a read-speed or interface that can handle the necessary bandwidth of playing back multiple streams)?
I don’t know this for a fact, but I cant imagine that using capture now has anything to do with the problem, as the TC is embedded into the clip the same way no matter how you capture.

Quote “Would an alternate workflow be to export fully self contained reference movies?” Just to clarify, there is no such thing as a self-contained reference movie. A clip is either self-contained or it is a reference movie, it can’t be both. The term “reference” refers to the fact that the media is not contained within the file itself, but simply references to the original source material in a separate movie file(s).

One possible solution would be to export all of your individual clips (before you multi-clip them) as self-contained clips (making sure they all start on exactly the same frame and all start on the same timecode), then import all of the self-contained clips into another project and create your multi-clip sequences again. However by doing this you would no longer have the ability to batch capture down the track. You could, however, print each clip to tape with it’s new timecode so you would resolve that problem. It’s just a matter of whether you want to go to the trouble of doing that.

Hopefully that makes sense.

Cheers
Brynn