FCP How do I bake in the plugin effects and export the footage files individually? Ready for DeNoiser.

[Mike Molenda]

Window > Export Queue

This brings up the Batch Export bin. Select all the clips in your timeline, and drag them into the queue. Here, you can choose the settings for multiple files by highlighting them all and hitting the “Settings…” button. Make sure the “Settings” dropdown menu is set to “Item Settings, or it will recompress your video. Also be sure “Make Self-Contained” is checked, as well as “Use Item In-Out” unless you want it to export the entire source clip with the baked-in effect. Finally, click the “Set Destination…” button at the top to choose the folder where the files are saved, otherwise it will default to your Render Files folder.

Optionally, you can use the “Set Naming Options Button” to add a custom extension to the filename if you’re worried about getting the baked clips confused with your originals.

[Stewart Addison]

Hi

Thanks for your help. I appreciate it.

I have followed your instructions, but because I have used a single clip several times in the sequence (different in and out points) and the same clip several times in my export queue it is throwing up a complaint about the file already exists. Do I have to rename all of the clips in my export queue to remove any duplicate names? Like add a .1, .2, .3 after the clip name?

If I do that, how easy is it to linkup everything back up?

Thanks for your help.

[Stewart Addison]

I am also getting:

The File does not have proper content to reconnect to @@@ Click OK to make this item independent and got to the next clip or Cancel to skip all clips from this file.

If I select either option it doesn’t relink to the baked file.

What is the easiest way for me to reconnect the media? I am going through the timeline selecting ‘reconnect media’ one by one and trying to reconnect.

Note, I only exported the video not the audio (I was planning on using reconnect media to each video file so I don’t need the audio’.

Is there a way I can get FCP to reconnect to the baked files within my old project automatically?

Thanks again

[Mike Molenda]

Blehh. What a mess. Sorry, I answered your question assuming each clip was used only once. You may be better off baking the FX into the entire shot (deselect “Use Item In/Out”), and saving them with the same name in a new folder. Then you can batch reconnect from your sequence to the files in the new folder.

However, if you have several instances of the same shot that have a different color grade applied to each instance, you are going to have to render out separate clips for each instance and reconnect those manually.

You can’t make Final Cut automatically reconnect, however you can have it reconnect to all the files in a folder so long as the clips have the same name and matching attributes (duration, frame size, etc). Just highlight them all, select “Reconnect Media” and check “Reconnect All Files in Relative Path” in the “Locate” or “Search” browser.

Also, it doesn’t matter if you export the audio along with the video. Final Cut tracks the audio and video resources of a clip separately, even if those resources are coming from the same master file, so you can reconnect to just the video. Unlink your audio from the video before selecting the clips for reconnect, or hold down the option key when selecting your clips to choose just the video track.

It was a mistake to advise you to export only the in-to-out and rename each clip. You should be fine keeping the same clip names as long as you put them in a different directory and don’t overwrite any of your original files. I’m sorry for the confusion.

[Stewart Addison]

Thank you very much!

Regards,

Stewart

[Stewart Addison]

Hi

Arrgghh… Even when I do the clips individually and rename them I still get “THE FILE DOES NOT HAVE PROPER CONTENT TO RECONNECT TO @@@@@ AT TIME “”””””” IN SEQUENCE “”””. CLICK OK TO MAKE THIS ITEM INDEPENDANT AND GO TO THE NEXT CLIP OR CANCEL TO SKIP ALL CLIPS FROM THIS FILE..

If I export a file using the in/out handles, then in a new sequence I reconnect media and point it to the baked/exported clip, why doesn’t that work???

I have already selected everything and MAKE INDEPENDENT CLIP..

Why can’t I replace like-for-like….? I don’t want to export the full clip without the handles for every file, it’s crazy on time and disk space..

Thanks for your help..