FCP Legend/FCP 10/Personal Use/Facility Use

[John Heagy]

[Jeremy Garchow] “With X, relinking files has to be the exact same length as the original, at least for now.”

This really needs to change in order to support not only truncated video tape captured clips but LTO partial restores. I’d like to see metadata determine linking not just UUID/filename/path. This would be user selectable. One guess what I’d select 🙂

[Jeremy Garchow] “Also, reel numbers are currently strange in fcpx.”

Not strange, just myopic as is typical with Apple.

FCP7, and another apps that see “reel” in QT, see the TC reel ID referred to as TCSource in the QT API. It’s is literally the name of the timecode track in the QT movie.

Apple decided nobody needs to read this metadata present in every file captured from tape over the past decade and still created by many third party apps. Instead they adopted the newer extended metadata QT model, not sure what it’s official name is, and excluded TCSource. The best place to see this is in Arri ProRes files. The only confusing part is Arri puts the reel number in both the extended and TCSource metadata.

John

[Keith Koby]

[John Heagy] “This really needs to change in order to support not only truncated video tape captured clips but LTO partial restores. I’d like to see metadata determine linking not just UUID/filename/path. This would be user selectable. One guess what I’d select 🙂 “

Not only for restore, but for archive. It needs to be able to export a media managed project with used media and handles. Our long form projects which come from live ingest media have clips that are about 5 hours long. With LTO6, we are getting closer to being able to save those files forever, but still it is a ways off. Maybe LTO8… When one show references over a TB of media, but uses only 50 or 60 GB of that, it is impractical to media manage everything. It’s cleaner, but impractical. If I’m able to back up the complete file elsewhere, then perhaps the media manager just isn’t necessary.

None the less, a method to media manage ala fcp7 “used media with handles” is needed and seems to be related to an ability to recapture with just used media.

If you could create a new project that would only reference used media. Even if that media was offline, then you could create an offline xml of that with offline children, and then go about the recap from the xml. It needs the reel info though as stated by you above.

Keith Koby
Sr. Director Post-Production Engineering
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