How to reconnect your media if the clips don’t match?

[Bouke Vahl]

well, i’m still here.
Send me a few DPX files (one or two each from different sequences)
bouke at videotoolshed dot com

Bouke

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[Adam Claude jones]

Thanks Neil. I think I understand your suggestion. Just one thing I’m still missing:

[Neil Sadwelkar]“What you could try is to do a ‘Send to Color’, set the Color project format to DPX. Grade in Color but don’t do a ‘Send to FCP’. Instead, just render. Your DPX originated files as well as non-DPX files will now all become DPX sequences, one per timeline clip. Send the Color DPXs to VFX.”

The only thing I don’t understand here is that to do a “Send to Color” from FCP I have to have the footage converted to Prores in FCP since I don’t have GlueTools and was trying to do without it. So when I render the clips to DPX in Color, it will be rendered from the down converted Prores files from FCP right? This would defeat the purpose of they have recorded to 10bit 422 DPX if I will be using the down converted footage to send to VFX. Not sure they would be happy with that.
Once in Color,can I somehow reconnect the files to the original DPX files instead of using the down converted prores from FCP?

The other thing is I don’t need to grade them before sending it to VFX. Actually I should not since VFX wants untouched plates otherwise I could mess their green screen work. But I guess I don’t have to grade before, I can just grade it all once it come back right?

Thanks again Neil.

[Adam Claude jones]

Hi Bouke. I know you are still here. 🙂
Thanks for that!
I’m just trying to workout the rest of the workflow with Neil first and then I will contact you to discuss the FCPreconnect part of it.

Thanks!

[Adam Claude jones]

Hi Neil, the above post seems to be the last missing part of the workflow. If the above would work I think the workflow could work nicely. Looking forward to your reply.

Cheers,

Adam

[Adam Claude jones]

Hi Bouke,

Will FCPreconnect works for reconnecting media from Color? I’m thinking not but I thought I would ask as I’m running out of options here. Thanks.

[Bouke Vahl]

Probably it will.
Latest versions of Color retain TC and Reelname in the renders.
(Reelname was not there in old versions)

Only Reelname and TC is used with FCPrelink.
So it ‘should’ work.

Try it (the demo will be just fine) and contact me direct if you run into trouble, we’ll make it work if it does not do it now.

Bouke

https://www.videotoolshed.com/
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