DESPERATE!! recovering sequence for upres

[Ben Holmes]

[Carey Williams] ” my hard drive died with the sequence on it, but i have an exported final cut pro movie on another drive”

So – have you lost the project file or just the captured material? If you’ve lost the project file, you will probably only be able to use the exported quicktime as a guide for a re-edit. If you still have the project file, you can re-capture at uncompressed 10-bit and lay-off to digibeta no problem, as long as your original capture had correct tape timecode and reel numbers. I would find a FCP online suite with SDI capabilites and avoid going to AVID.

If you’ve lost your project file, you have a bigger problem. Let us know.

Ben

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[Carey Williams]

yes ben, i lost my project file, but i was hoping that since the final cut pro movie is a reference file, that somehow it could reference new media that had the same timecode. My digi-beta has clone timecode of what i did the offline with.

[Mike J.]

Cary,

First..hey…..we know each other from the “FC” pain in the *ss last year.

Second… is this a film project with some kind of burnin timcode on picture side of the footage – you’ve made a selfcontained quicktime of your project and that’s ALL you have….is there burned in timecode on that? If so, manually write those edit numbers down and do a log and capture of each clip in FCP.

Third, autosave vault. Did you have the autosave valut on set to a harddrive that DIDN”T crash. Say you’re firewire died but the autosave is usually saved to you Mac HD. This may be the quick answer and a life saver…but that’s dependent on where your autosave is set.

Find AUTOSAVE folder and peek into it and see if backups of your project is there. If it’s not, remember to have AUTOSAVE set to a different drive (like MAC HD) from now on to save you in the future.

Mike

[Carey Williams]

MIKE!!!

hey man, hows things going now dude!? Glad to hear from you.
Yeah, i just checked the autosave vault, no go. No timecode burnin. So, the final cut pro movie i have wont have any kind of metadata on it that automatic duck could use? I didnt make it a self contained movie. I made a final cut pro reference file movie. Anyway, thanks for trying to help out.
and let me know how you are!!

carey