FCP clips and master lose sync

[Jerry Hofmann]

Put the master clip’s media in another folder so that FCP will report it’s “offline”.

Recapture that clip in the FCP 7 system.

Jerry

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[Dorit Grunberger]

Hi Jerry

I’m not sure I completely understand your suggestion. I understand moving the source .mov out of it’s folder and into another folder. Then are you suggesting I launch FCP, and reconnect the media, or are you suggesting I log and capture the full 1 hour tape again?

The one piece of info I neglected to write in my 1st email message is that all the source material is on a Drobo array.

Thanks for your help

Thanks in advance,
Dorit

[Dorit Grunberger]

Just in case I did understand you correctly. I took the media files out of their capture scratch folder and copied to the desktop. Trashed the media in the original folder and reconnected in FCP to the desktop folder.

Didn’t work 🙁

Are there any known problems with FCP projects working in 7.0.3, that function perfectly well in FCP 5.1.4?

Thanks in advance,
Dorit

[Jerry Hofmann]

No you misunderstood the term” recapture”.. it means load the tapes in a machine, select the now offline clip, and recapture it from the tape.

Jerry

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[Dorit Grunberger]

Ahhhh. I never did this before. So if you can have some patience with me, could you step me through the process? Is there some easy way to do this, or do I have to find each clip in question on the tape manually?

Many thanks,

Dorit

Thanks in advance,
Dorit

[Jerry Hofmann]

Didn’t you say you had a “master clip” you cut down into smaller sections? If you used subclips of that master clip (the whole tape maybe?) then all you need to do is recapture that master clip once it’s disconnected from any media. Just select the offline master clip in the browser, right click, and select “batch capture”, then follow the prompts.

Jerry

Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann

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[Dorit Grunberger]

Well, I didn’t make subclips. What I did was create a sequence, drop my master, chop it up with blade and copy/paste the bladed clips into my project timeline. If the copied clips need further adjustment, I shorten/lengthen in the project timeline.

So now what I did, trying to follow your original instructions, was move the master clip folder so the clips now need to be reconnected. I right clicked on one of the clips in the timeline and selected “Capture.”

I now am getting a warning that:

“You are about to capture Non-Drop Frame media from a device currently detecting or configure for Drop Frame media. If you proceed, you may experience changes in logged in and out points, problems relinking media, or removal of master clip relationships.”

I must have made a mess of things somehow… I won’t proceed until I hear from you on this. Looks ominous…

Thanks in advance,
Dorit

[Dorit Grunberger]

So I guess you’re suggesting I recapture the whole tape?
That will take an hour, I can try that later. What do you think the chances of success are?

Thanks in advance,
Dorit

[Jerry Hofmann]

As long as the tape has timecode, what should happen is that your master clip will be back online, and connected to the clips you put in your sequence the way you intended. Hopefully maintaining sync.

Jerry

Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann

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[Dorit Grunberger]

Thanks Jerry

I’ll try it when I have some time. We have a deadline for this coming Monday and I succumbed to working further on the project with the older version of the software, where everything is synced up very nicely.

Appreciate you input,

Happy (Hebrew) New Year to you

Dorit

Thanks in advance,
Dorit