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Batch modification of source clips.
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its at times like these that a simple macro function in FCP would be handy … just assemble the content in a single timeline then use a macro to perform: up arrow – ctrl v – x – shift delete … and repeat itself until done, then just media manage the trimmed sequence.
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[Neil Sadwelkar] “I also had to write a formula to change the duration to 3 sec less.”
Was this really necessary? Couldn’t you have deleted all the info in that column? If memory serves me FCP doesn’t need duration column for a batch list. In fact it only needs nam, reel, media start,& media end.
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it would also be great if there was a check box on the Capture Now settings to ‘Trim last x seconds before TimeCode break’.
It’s sad that this problem hasn’t really been addressed in the many iterations of Final Cut Pro. Around v3 or 4 they smartened up the Capture Now so that it was able to handle TimeCode breaks automatically, and that is where this problem started.
It has just been a major pain in the butt to get blindsided by something so simple when we are so far into the project….
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Alrighty, I just arrived in the suite for the morning. I will grab the file you sent me last night, give it a bit of a whirl and post back shortly.
Cheers
Al
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so far so good. it seems to be working. I am doing a test capture of two tapes, then doing a test replace / relink on the original files. Fingers crossed. (yes, I have backed up the original captured rushes)
Cheers
Al
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Final update on this issue. All is good. I am 22 tapes into the capture, and have done some random relinking tests and all seems to be good. The testing involves open random projects that have sequences that use the original ‘bad’ capture files and see if it all works ok. There is some relinking to be done, but it is all straight forward and smooth sailing. The hardest part now is to wait for the 40 + tapes to capture. Lucky I have had my bass guitar in the suite for the last day or so….
One tip that we discovered in the process. If you are doing this kind of batch manipulation, and decide to ditch columns in the process, beware of ditching the ‘Tracks’ column. We ditched this column, and when I imported the batch list back into FCP, Final Cut Pro ‘assumed’ that there were 1V, 2A instead of the original 1V, 4A which meant the first tape I captured would not relink to the original projects because it was missing 2 channels of audio. I ended up bouncing the batch list back into excel, re-adding the Tracks column, saving and re-importing, which worked a treat, although Neil reminded me, I could have just used the ‘Clip Settings’ option you get when you Control+Click on a clip (or set of clips) in the browser. duh. I should have known that…
Anyway, thanks again to Neil for seriously bailing me out on this one. It is greatly appreciated mate.
Cheers
Alister
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[Alister Robbie] “Anyway, thanks again to Neil for seriously bailing me out on this one. It is greatly appreciated mate.”
No problem, mate. We’ve been ‘friends’ in cricket, haven’t we now?
And since you have 40 tapes to go, you could follow events at Edgbaston today, maybe.
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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
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I had a quick look at the results after day 1 at Edgabston. Looks like Australia might have finally pulled their fingers out after that woeful effort the other week. (hopefully…)
After a late night and early morning, the tapes are now captured. The tail end of the capture was a bit quicker as there were a bunch of B Camera tapes that were quite short. woot!
All is good, and things went smoothly. One final observation, and I suspect this may be more of a Kona drivers thing than a Final Cut Pro thing, but I did notice that despite the fact the clip settings are for 1V, 4A and Final Cut Pro initially sees the clips as 1V,4A, if you re-import the clips into Final Cut Pro, it reveals that the captured clips are actually 1V,16A. This means that when i go to relink the files to other projects expecting 1V, 4A it complains that the number of Audio Tracks are different. This isn’t necessarily a major issue, but it would good to know what the problem is here. Now that I have a weekend of not capturing, I might endeavour to find out.
Cheers
Alister
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[Alister Robbie] “if you re-import the clips into Final Cut Pro, it reveals that the captured clips are actually 1V,16A”
After you trash prefs, you have to open the log and capture window, and choose the 4 audio tracks there, then close the window. Should be good then.
Jeremy
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