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How do I clear the batch capture cache?
Hi friends. I’m up and running again thanks to the many kind suggestions that came my way. You guys saved my neck! Thanks a million. My current problem is minor. I aborted a batch capture process because I saw that the first clip being captured was a whole reel (because a subclip was involved — I understand what happened). But now I’m ready to batch capture the RIGHT clips and I can’t clear the batch capture cache. It keeps on insisting on recapturing that first long clip before it will capture any of the clips I want. How do I get that first clip out of the batch? I can’t see an actual list anywhere: it just says “x clips ready to capture” and I can tell from the duration that that first long clip is one of them. I tried closing and reopening Log and Capture and even closing and repopening FCP, but no luck. I’m sure there’s a simple answer. Thanks. –Fred
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So don’t select that clip as one of the ones you want to capture. Select only the clips you want to capture and when they are highlighted, control click (or right click) the clips and choose batch capture.
Jeremy
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It has just occurred to me that there may be something else going on here, so let me give you the big picture. It was a 3-cam shoot. For my offline, I just captured all 3 reels, put them on 3 video tracks, and took the bits I wanted to a fourth track. I didn’t use Multicam. Now I’m ready to do my online and I want to recapture in a higher format. I made a Trimmed Offline Sequence, telling Media Manager to discard unused media. The results looked good: a bunch of short offline clips. I had a nagging feeling that I’d run into problems upon recapture, since these new clips were not even subclips; they were just sections of my 3 original media files (the 3 reels) that Media Manager had made into these new little clips. And indeed when I went to recapture, it told me that there were 14 additional items and did I want to add those? I said OK. Then it started recapturing the whole first reel. I aborted that, thinking that those additional items included the entire reels. So then as a test, I just selected a single clip and tried a batch capture with that, refusing to accept any additional items. That’s when it told me that it was going to capture 2 clips and gave me a TRT of my whole reel and then some. I thought that maybe the batch cache wasn’t cleared and it was still trying to capture that whole reel. But maybe it was trying to recapture both the little clip and the whole reel, and might even do that for each small clip?
Anyway this is clearly messed up, and I’m sure there’s a standard, clean way of doing this since people must follow this workflow all the time. Please fill me in. I apologize for being so perenially green.
Thanks
–Fred
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In your trimmed sequence, I take it you have just the clips you want and none of the clips that were on 1-3?
How did you Media Manage? I bet that’s where the problem is. The Media Manager works, but is not very straight forward.
Give me your settings on how you Media Managed.
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Thanks for replying, Jeremy. OK I just tried that, selecting a single clip. It told me that it was going to capture 2 clips with a TRT at least equal to the whole reel. –Fred
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Alright, when you media manage, this is what you need to do.
Duplicate your final offline timeline and name it WhateverYouWant_ONLINE. Replace the name WhateverYouWant with well, whatever you want. In the browser, right click (or option click) the ONLINE sequence and choose the make sequence clips independent option. Then right click again and choose media manager. When media manager window pops up:
1) Choose ‘create offline’ (counter intuitive as you are really creating an online sequence)
2) Change the option to set you sequences to (10 bit uncompressed or whatever you are going to use)
3) Uncheck include master clips outside selection
4) Check delete unused media
5) Check use handles and put at least 1 second handles (or more if you want)
6) Uncheck include affiliate clips
7) Uncheck include non active multiclip angles.Click OK. A new project will now open with a timeline and a bin of clips for you to capture. Then right click the bin and choose batch capture.
FCP should only capture the clips you need at that point.
Jeremy
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Jeremy: It worked! You are awesome. I can’t thank you enough. I’m sure you’re incredibly busy, and it was really great of you to help me. I hope I can return the favor some day. –Fred
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Anytime, Fred. Good luck. Glad you are up & running.
Jeremy
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