Edit ProResProxy then ReTransfer/Capture

[Steve Eisen]

Why? Hard drives are very inexpensive these days. Keep everything in ProRes or ProRes LT if you are trying to cut down on space.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Shane Ross]

For the tapeless stuff, just Log and Transfer to ProRes LT. For the tapes, you need an HDV deck and HD Capture device in order to capture it as ProRes LT.

Edit and lock your cut.

Then go through the cut and separate all the footage that is tape based from the tapeless stuff. Put on a higher layer.

Duplicate your sequence twice. Name one TAPELESS, the other TAPE. Delete all the TAPE footage from the TAPELESS sequence, and all the TAPELESS footage from the TAPE sequence.

Media manage both sequences to OFFLINE…set the sequence settings you want to reimport and recapture as. GIve yourself 1-2 second handles, as onlining can cause slippage.

For the tapeless sequence, use Log and Transfer to point to the tapeless backups (the first card just to tell FCP where to look is fine), close it, then hit BATCH CAPTURE. This will reimport only the footage used in the cut, with handles.

For the tape sequence, hook the deck back up, grab the tapes, and use Batch Capture to recapture the footage at the higher resolution.

Shane

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[Jeremy Garchow]

What Shane says, except I wouldn’t even spearate the tape from tapeless. Fcp knows the difference when you tell it to batch capture.

[Shane Ross]

Force of habit I suppose.

Shane

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[Jeremy Garchow]

Yeah, it makes sense, too.

[Jason Watkins]

Thanks for the help on the workflow! But are you saying to offline at Proxy, then conform to LT? Or are you saying start at LT and conform up to PR422? I know the cost of drives have come down, but if conforming from proxy is easy and sort of painless, then lowering the bit rate and drive space is a great option for my budget.

[Shane Ross]

[Jason Watkins] ” But are you saying to offline at Proxy, then conform to LT? Or are you saying start at LT and conform up to PR422? “

If you want the offline/online workflow, you need to capture as Proxy, then online as ProRes 422.

Shane

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[Jason Watkins]

Hey Shane, one more question for you. Is there an easy way to separate the tapeless footage from the file based in the final sequence?

[Shane Ross]

Well, Jeremy said you don’t need to. But what I do is color code the footage. Whatever I have less of, I make RED or GREEN, so it stands out.

Shane

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[Diego Lopez]

One important note that I had to figure out on my own…
(don’t think it had been mentioned)

When trying to “batch capture” on your tapeless workflow, please make sure to adjust your Audio/Video settings.

Capture Preset: Generic Capture Template
Device Control: Non-Controllable Device

Device control might be the only relevant one, but those are the settings I used. If you don’t change your Device Control preset, FCP will complain that it can’t initialize the capture device.

Maybe I’m the only fool that needed that tidbit…