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Assistant editor workflow challenge…
Hello. I also posted this in the “Indie film and Doc” forum by mistake so please excuse the double post…
Until this project I have been the one to do my entire edits…. Since landing a 13 / 1 hour episode reality series I have brought on an assistant editor to help me rough out the sequences. Logging and labeling of footage has already been done. I am looking for workflow options. Right now I set him up in his own project with only the media he needs to string out a 2-3 minute segment. Once he has this strung out, I then open his project, copy the sequence and past it into my master project to do the final cut. My challenge is that when I do this, even though I have all the same media that he has and I reconnect to my media, I don’t have a “master clip” connection in my project. Which means that when I do a “shift-F” to locate the master clip in my project it says “The master clip is not present. Would you like to add a master clip to the browser” Not a huge deal but wondering if this can bite me in the arse down the road? Is there another workflow that would be a better choice for this kind of project?
Any one have a proven workflow that would be superior to this? Any thoughts would be most appreciated.
Working in FCP 6.06Thanks!
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, AlaskaEveryone has a story to tell.
https://www.FrostLineProductions.com -
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Continue to create a new master clip so that you can match frame. I then delete the original clip in the browser as it is no longer useful to me.
If I were you, I’d have the assistant do this job.
Kevin Monahan
60 Blu-ray Templates for Final Cut Studio 2009
http://www.fcpworld.com
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro -
In addition to Kevin’s suggestion, I’ll share a bit about how we handle this.
We have a large SAN which is shared by dozens of editors. Obviously, the kind of match framing you’re talking about becomes very problematic across multiple projects. Our approach is to treat the entire SAN as the project. In other words, you organize your media using the standard MAC OS file structure. More importantly, you do NOT rename your clips… you decide on a filename structure and stick to it. If you absolutely need to call your clip “CU Dog peeing”, then put it in the “Comments” column.
So, when you go to “matchframe” your clip, it will NOT show up in the project, however, there is a key stroke called “Reveal in Finder”. Boom! FCP will automatically take you to where the clip lives in the finder. If you are diligent about keeping your media organized, this method works quite well. We do hours and hours of reality TV per week and we’d never make our air dates if it didn’t work.
I’ve written an article about sharing projects in FCP. You can google for it: “Sharing projects with FCP”.
mark
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I see a feature request here.
“When trading project files, automatically add a Master Clip to the Browser. Add a checkbox for the option to delete the clip that is no longer useful.”
Kevin Monahan
60 Blu-ray Templates for Final Cut Studio 2009
http://www.fcpworld.com
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro -
Thank you everyone… And Thank you Mark, Your article is great! A ton of great info. It will help me develop my workflow for sure.
If ay one else want to sead it I found it here; https://www.avid2fcp.com/articles/sharing-projects
Thanks again!
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, AlaskaEveryone has a story to tell.
https://www.FrostLineProductions.com
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