Force relink

[Shawn Miller]

[Jeremy Garchow] ” I have lately been using Premiere for conform (So I leave FCPX, translate the timeline, import to Pr, watch the program in Pr and fix any problems, export an XML for Baselight, receive graded media, relink to the new video, watch the program to make sure it’s right, export an XML and translate to FCPXML, import and watch to make sure it’s right, fix any problems and output),”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nnaeO6QSPI

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[Andy Field]

Wait…there’s something FCP X can’t do?????

Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852

[Bret Williams]

[Michael Hancock] “In FCPX, if there’s even a 1 frame difference, it won’t relink”

Sometimes, even if it’s the same file! Today I opened an old FCP 7 project. It opened fine. So I exported xml, used 7toX to make it FCPXML and everything relinked except one AIFF music file. Same media that was in the legacy timeline. So I had to bring it in and redo all the cuts and audio keyframes. The clip I brought in that wouldn’t relink matched the other clips specs exactly. As it should as it’s the same file! Same kHz, same name, same length, same file. But NO, X says it’s a different length.

[Bill Davis]

I enjoyed reading it very much! Thanks for taking the time to write it. I’l re-read it on the plane on Saturday to absorb more.

As to force re-linking, through entirely my own fault, at least 30% of the time I used to do it in Legacy – typically on “call-back” projects tyat required revision – I’d end up force re-linking the wrong files and royally screw myself up.

Obviously that’s on ME and no one else for bad backup and file ID strategies – but it’s sure nice not having to think about it anymore, and for that reason, I suspect that I’d rather just remount the source volume, blow out the old clip and import a new one to keep my database clean.

To each their own.

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[Charlie Austin]

[Jeremy Garchow] “timecode is frame by frame metadata.”

FCP X reads TC, but doesn’t use it internally. So… there are no frames in FCPX, it’s just time increment cadence. So a clip isn’t defined by frames, it’s like this for master clips:

clip start="0s" format="ft2" duration="103376273/30000s"

and this in the timeline

Maybe this is part of the difficulty? I dunno. I liked being able to relink to anything, no matter how much of a mess it made. :-)

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[Steve Connor]

[Charlie Austin] “Maybe this is part of the difficulty? I dunno. I liked being able to relink to anything, no matter how much of a mess it made. 🙂
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Yes it would be nice to have the option, especially when FCPX decides that it can’t relink to the file even though it’s EXACTLY the same length and format!

[Mitch Ives]

[Bret Williams] “Sometimes, even if it’s the same file! Today I opened an old FCP 7 project. It opened fine. So I exported xml, used 7toX to make it FCPXML and everything relinked except one AIFF music file. Same media that was in the legacy timeline. So I had to bring it in and redo all the cuts and audio keyframes. The clip I brought in that wouldn’t relink matched the other clips specs exactly. As it should as it’s the same file! Same kHz, same name, same length, same file. But NO, X says it’s a different length.”

Had the same experience… I feel your pain…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Mitch Ives]

[Simon Ubsdell] “FCP 7’s brute force relinking was what made it one of the most powerful NLEs ever – if that’s what you needed.
“

Agreed, I miss that feature. I used it often…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Morten]

Being unable to force relink is the reason I abandoned FCPX and fled to PrPro.
After accidentally opening some of the clips in AE, and even without making any changes – FCPX was unable to recognise these clips and cost me a days work to re-edit. So I trashed the toy.

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[Charlie Austin]

[Morten Ranmar] “After accidentally opening some of the clips in AE, and even without making any changes – FCPX was unable to recognise these clips and cost me a days work to re-edit. So I trashed the toy.”

That bug was fixed ages ago.

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