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Exporting Subclips to Reference Files and Reconnecting
Hey Everyone,
I’ve found myself in a quagmire of footage where any one of half a dozen or so hour-long source clips has been meticulously sub clipped out, shot-by-shot. And each of those sub clips has been duplicated and organized by various criteria in bins and sub-bins. Perhaps a small diagram would be in order. Essentially, it’s structured as follows, with general names inserted instead of the specific names:
[Bin] Source Clips
– Source 1
– …
– Source 7[Bin] Subclips
– [Bin] Source 1
– Source 1 shot 1 subclip
– …
– Source 1 shot 178 subclip– [Bin] Source 2
– Source 2 shot 1 subclip
– …
– Source 2 shot 67 subclip– …
[Bin] Locations
– [Bin] City 1
– [Bin] Neighborhood 1
– Source 1 shot 4 subclip
– …– …
– [Bin] Neighborhood 6– Source 1 shot 6 subclip
– …– …
– [Bin] City 2
– …[Bin] Themes
– [Bin] Theme 1
– Source 1 shot 6 subclip
– …– …
– [Bin] Theme 19– Source 1 shot 3 subclip
– ……
I need for all of those “Source X shot Y subclips” to be turned into reference files and then reconnected. Obviously, on a less complicated file-structure, I could export the subclips and re-import. Doing so on this project would put me about a week+ behind from an organizational standpoint alone.
Is there a batch-export-subclip-then-immediately-reconnect-said-subclip-to-said-export function hidden deep in the bowels of FCP. Please say there is.
If you’ve gotten this far, I already truly appreciate your dedication. Thank you.
Cheers,
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1 Reply
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Your real solution is to first log, then capture. Then you won’t have this problem because your tape will already be broken down into clips.
But wait, you say, it takes too long to actually review and log the tape first.
Yeah, right.
Look at your own workflow above. Look at all the time & disk space you’re wasting by trying to save the small amount of time it takes to do this correctly, not to mention all of the other problems caused by lazy work habits.
Arnie
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