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Combining Projects (aka nightmares)
Hey COW,
We’re working on a project in FCP with multiple editors, and we’re trying to combine multiple different project files into one projet file for finishing touches. I’m wondering if there’s a way to copy sequences from one project file to another while dynamically updating links between the clips in the copied sequence and the project’s browser. Here’s an example, as I don’t even think I understand what I just wrote.
Let’s say we have editors A and B working on two different acts (acts 1 and 2 respectively) in the same film out of two different FCP project files (both project files originated from a common original and have the exact same footage in the browser). Editor A finishes act 1, and Editor B finishes act 2, and now we want to take act 1 and bring it into the project file containing act 2 so that Editor B can touch up both acts and seamlessly blend them together. So we now have Editor B’s project file only, containing acts 1 and 2 in the same project file. But, all the links between the timeline clips and their master clips in the browser get severd, and they don’t update for the new project file. So if we go into act 1 and want to find the master clip of a specific piece of video (selecting a clip in the timeline and pressing shift+F), nothing happens because FCP doesn’t know that the clip in the timeline for act 1 corresponds to the master clip in Editor B’s browser. Is there any way to update this link in FCP so that you can merge a sequence? Or are you just fated to organizational problems when you take on such a project?
Thanks everyone,
Ben Insler
Editor
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4 Replies
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You should be able to reconnect a sequence transfered between stations as long as neither editor has changed the name of a master clip, then put it into a sequence… just put the transfered sequence in the other station’s project file, and control click, select reconnect…
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D
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Thanks for the help Jerry, but perhaps I was a bit unclear. The footage in the two timelines isn’t offline. In fact, you can still edit with it. But (considering the example above) all the footage from Editor A’s timeline has no link to the browser, as in it is exactly the same as if the footage was dropped directly into the timeline rather than importing it into the project’s browser first.
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So the clips in the timeline won’t reconnect? Is there an error message when you try?
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D
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Ben,
for future reference: Although I have not used this product yet, I hear great things about LlamaLog. (https://www.llamalog.com/). Great software for use by several editors working on the same project at once. See Apple’s story on “Murderball” for more info. (https://www.apple.com/pro/video/richman/index.html)Michael Harnois
Stealth Fighter Pilot/Senior Editor
The Troupe – Windham, NH
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