Edit from Quicktime Reference Files

[Walter Biscardi]

[Dustin Parsons] “I was wondering if, instead of duplicating the 30min Quicktimes and doubling the amount of disk space they take up, we could make Quicktime reference files and then work from those? “

Reference files refer back to the original media. Once that’s gone, the reference file is useless.

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[Dustin Parsons]

Of course. We would keep the 30min self-contained Quicktimes as is.

[Dustin Parsons] we need to keep the 30min Quicktimes as they are so they’ll correspond to transcriptions.

But if I were to make reference files from that 30min Quicktime, could I work with the reference files like normal self-contained Quicktimes? Does FCP have any issues with that?

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[Jeremy Garchow]

[Dustin Parsons] “But if I were to make reference files from that 30min Quicktime, could I work with the reference files like normal self-contained Quicktimes? Does FCP have any issues with that?”

I don’t understand. Why make reference movies when you have the original media?

If you need to find an answer to a particular question, I’d search the transcripts (which are also spotlightable and hopefully timecoded).

Perhaps you should look into creating a database. Making a ton of QT ref movies is asking for a bunch of trouble. If the orig. movie gets moved, renamed, lost, accidentally tossed, whatever, it will make the rest of your editing life pretty difficult.

This came up on a quick database Google:

https://www.imagineproducts.com/mac_library.htm

Jeremy

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Dustin Parsons] “I’ve never had to figure out a workflow for footage that will be archived for use from multiple editors on multiple projects. I could very easily be approaching this completely wrong. “

Sounds like a job for Final Cut Server.

Jeremy

[Dustin Parsons]

We have a lot of interviews with different fashion models, so if we wanted to make a short piece about makeup tips or something we could Spotlight “makeup tips” and bring up 20 short Quicktimes of different models, import those into FCP and we’re good to go. That’s if we were to cut up the longer Quicktimes and label them according to subject matter.

If we didn’t cut up the longer Quicktimes we’d have to spotlight “makeup” or “makeup advice” or “beauty tips” (the interviewers don’t always say the same thing) then pull up the transcripts and search them for the question, import the corresponding Quicktimes into FCP, then go through each Quicktime and grab the question and drop those into a sequence. That seems much less efficient.

I’ve never had to figure out a workflow for footage that will be archived for use from multiple editors on multiple projects. I could very easily be approaching this completely wrong.

Thanks for the replies, I don’t know what I’d do without this community.

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