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DVCProHD–Media Manager Archiving
Hey All,
I have a Media Manager question/situation. I’d appreciate any help, as detailed as possible. I’m working on a Mac Pro w/Leopard and FCP 6.0.2.
I recently edited three 54 minute HD shows that now need to be archived, preferably using Media Manager so that the edits can be manipulated at a later date. The editing was done in full res, everything at DVCPro HD 720p 59.94/Audio at 48Hz. There is roughly 25 hours of raw HD footage per show. Many shots (video only) have been sped up or slowed down, maybe 100 per show on average. The overlaid titles/graphics (all are stills) were sometimes moved around within the frame to line up properly. Naturally there are plenty of dissolves and fades on these shots as well.
From what I understand, Media Manager will most likely do the following:
1) Take a really long time to copy over a new project with new (hopefully much shorter) clips. Easily overnight, possibly days.
2) All the sped or slowed clips may be screwed up and will need to be redone by hand.
3) All the graphics/titles may be screwed up and will need to be redone by hand.
I’m looking for the best way to get this archiving done. I’m not spending the time exporting each clip individually. Throwing them onto a new sequence and changing them back to their original speeds, and then replacing them all by hand is ridiculously tedious. Perhaps I will do that just to have the media (w/handles) available for changes.
What I want to try in addition to archiving these shots in their unmanipulated form is this:
1) Copy all the sped or slowed video clips onto one video track in a new sequence.
2) Exporting that as a self-contained QT Movie, current settings, etc. This will essentially create a new movie that FCP will not longer recognize as having been sped or slowed.
3) Importing that clip into the archived project file, and putting it on top of the full program’s sequence (where there ought to be holes where the Media Manager mangled the time-remapped clips).
4) Chopping out the black that will be in between the pieces of video I want, leaving the sped or slowed video in the proper places.
I figure this workflow could save me hours upon hours of manual labor, but that all depends on exactly how many time-remapped shots I have, and how long exporting a self-contained QT Movie that’s likely 50+ minutes long actually takes.
Any thoughts?
Also, one other possible snag: during digitizing, many of the tapes had audio sync drift issues that I was never able to get a fix on. Called Apple, other editors…I was doing everything correctly, all the settings matched, etc. Regardless of that, I had to manually re-sync many many shots and then “mark as in sync” on the timeline. Is this going to confuse Media Manager, or will it be able to grab the correct pieces of video vs. the correct pieces of audio, and keep everything in sync in it’s transfer?
Any help would be great. Ask questions if any of this unclear. Thanks!
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