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Is it possible to transcode/consolidate group clips?
This really should work.
I want to move a bin and some media from a large project on a unity (via portable hdd) and work from home, then return to the main project and relink my new edits. The project includes many multicam groups.
But when I consolidate or transcode sequences to the portable hdd, the group clips don’t carry all the media. Generally only the currently selected audio and video tracks will appear on my home system, and switching to other cameras yields the Media Offline screens.
The unity system is MC 5.0.3, my home system is MC 5.5.1. But I’ve encountered this problem on earlier versions too.
The only foolproof way of getting this to work seems to be to manually drag and drop whole mxf files via the desktop, but this is fiddly and very time consuming.
Any ideas on getting process to work?
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Transcode the master clips that the group clips are made of?
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I haven’t tried that, but it’s a big project and the grouping is done by the assistants so locating all the sources could be almost as time consuming as moving things manually.
But this has made me think, what if I get the bin to ‘show media relatives’ and transcode those instead of the sequences.
Might try that and see what happens.
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Set Bin Display-> show reference clips. That should list all master clip sources for the group clips, subclips, syncclips and sequences in that bin.
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Yes, I’ll give that a try and see how I go. I still think it should work without having to workaround though, so I’d be curious to know if anyone else has encountered the issue.
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I’ve got sort of the same problem.
I online programmes with a lot of group clips. When the show is online mastered, assistants consolidate the master-offline.
My problem come when at seasond end some shows have a recap before the finale.The editors then should be able to use my graded online master to edit the recap programme, but all grouped clips are offline. Resulting in them using the consolidated offline master. Then I have to grade everything again.
The only workaround i’ve found is to copy my grading.
Avid Symphony Nitris 5.5.1
Mediastation Editshare
OSX 10.6.6
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If you need to consolidate a sequence containing group clips, right click on the sequence in the bin and select “Commit Multicam Edits”. This creates a new sequence with the suffix .NoGroups.01.
Doing this transforms all group clips in your sequence into solo subclips, and makes it possible to consolidate the entire sequence without any clips being skipped.
(I know I’m three years late to this convo, but this problem stumped me recently, and I’m happy to share a solution!)
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Many years on I am still having problems with this same issue.
I am working remotely, and when the producer sends me their assemblies, non-group material relinks perfectly, and some small groups relink.
But large groups with four cameras and a lot of audio tracks won’t relink. Committing multicam edits is not an idea solution obviously, as I’d like to be able to access the other cameras.
Hard copying every media file is not feasible due to the size of the production, although I have had success with this method in the past.
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I’m trying to figure out what the desired result is here, as i think i’m missing something.
You want to consolidate the timeline, but you want access to more media than what the timeline is showing…but you don’t want access to all the media in the project. Typically consolidating is designed to do what it is doing…take the media your timeline is working with, and pair it down to those clips only.
You seem to be looking for a hybrid, where you can access media from other cameras, but you don’t want all the media from all the other cameras. Is that correct? This does sound like a manual operation.
Might be easier to simply create a timeline of the master camera angles you want and consolidate that.
I think that media would relink to your existing clips.
Glenn
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