FCP7 Media Management

[Jason Brown]

How about handling renders? I’m assuming/hoping that’s part of media management.

It boggles my mind how bad FCP is at losing reference to renders when you change something…but then put it back. Or just turn off the visibility of a track…render is gone?!

-Jason

[Walter Biscardi]

[Jason Brown] “Or just turn off the visibility of a track…render is gone?! “

Well, yeah because you just changed the video. The Render is all the elements in your video track. Turn off a Track and you’ve changed what FCP rendered so it dumps the render. IF you really want that render back, just import the rendered file.

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[Andy Mees]

A few blog and forum posters have noted complete success in Media Managing complex speed affected sequneces … zero errors. Does that mean you won’t find a problem? I don’t know. But the early reports are good in that regard … here’s one such post by Scott Simmons:
https://provideocoalition.com/index.php/ssimmons/story/kicking_the_tires_on_final_cut_pro_7/

[Greg Jones]

I guess more specifically I was wondering if they’ve fixed the Media Manager tool. Any time in the past when I’ve attempted to use it to consolidate a project it ends up with errors and I have to manually copy over clips.

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[Mark Maness]

In what way have you seen this, Greg?

Are you talking about the fact that it ONLY copies the media but not all of the components inside your project?

As far as I have known, Media Manager only deals with the captured media in the Final Cut Pro Documents – Capture Scratch folder. Its never copied across any of my artwork, music files or Motion projects. I have to do this myself. Now, it would be nice if Media Manager did this, but it never has for myself.

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[Greg Jones]

Currently when I attempt to consolidate a project using the media manager and set it to copy media with handles, when the project rebuilds usually there are a few clips that do not copy over correctly. What I usually end up doing is turning off the ‘handles’ and it copies the entire clip over. So if I have a 20 minute clip and only used 2 seconds out of the clip, it copies over the entire 20 minutes. If I turn on ‘Handles’ and try to get it to copy only 2 seconds plus handles, a lot of times I’ll get an error when the project tries to rebuild with the new media. I was just wondering if they’ve fixed this in FCP 7.

Greg Jones
D7,Inc.
Orlando,Fl.
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[Jason Brown]

[walter biscardi] “because you just changed the video”

Yea, I got that…but when you turn the visible icon back on…Render is gone? That’s an oversight…FCP has a file that references that EXACT point in the timeline…but when you turn the track visible icon off, then back on…you lose all renders that involve that track. HUGE oversight, IMHO.

-Jason

[John Pale]

If you toggle the clip visibility and not the entire track, you don’t have to re-render the entire track, just the clips involved in the effect.

If you use undo, you don’t even have to re-render.

[Shane Ross]

The MM still requires the media being managed to have a REEL name. Without that, FCP copies the whole clip. Add that and FCP is fine.

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[Craig Shields]

I’ve always had problems with Soundtrack files not getting copied over. It will usually creates a file called “render” that is useless.