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Is the media manager in FCPHD 5 really broken?
I”m surprised I haven’t heard anything about this before…
Does any one have the same problem? My media manager won;t properly convert sequences to offlines with independant clips.. I wrote another thread and was told that the media manager is broken and that i have to go back to FCPHD 4.5. I don;t think it’s going to tbe easy to revert my whole system back,, including decklink drivers, quicktime, etc…
any ideas..
Thank you,
Kai
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Could you explain exactly what you’re doing and your procedure? Are you using 5.0.4?
All the best,
Tom
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD
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Hi.
I’m working with FCPHD version 5.0.4. I am trying to ‘online’ some HD videos that were edited in SD Photo JPEG. There is a TON of material used to edit/create the 20 videos that will be the final product. I have enough room for about 2 hours of uncompressed 8 bit 1080i60 HD footage on my media drive – which is more than enough considering the 20 videos require about an hour of footage total (the videos are short, and in two languages so they share a lot of material).
The problem I”m having is that when I ask FCPHD to create offline sequences – using the media tool – it tells me I need over an hour and a half of footage to ‘online’ just one of the short videos (I did a test with a 6 minute video). I followed the instructions in the manual. Is there some other info I’m missing?
Thanks,
Kai
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There can be a lot of factor that affect this, the settings in Media Manager, how the clips were captured and edited, and perhaps things like items that were time remapped; there may be other things as well that will affect the total output. I’m assuming you still have the P=JPEG material online and haven’t dumped it already.
All the best,
Tom
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD
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Yes, the P-JPEG material is still all there.
I have only been testing the ‘online’ with one of the 20 videos (well, 2 since they are in two languages) using the media manager. I’ve gone through the settings in the media manager over and over again. I’ve got no time-remapped clips in my timeline. I just can;t figure out how 6 minutes works out to an hour and a half. I will try to export and EDL or XML of the sequences themselves. It’s just frustrateing to find that the Media manager doesn’t work too well. NExt Time I’ll skip the offline and go online from the start.. Which causes all kinds of other problems with space.
I used an AVID up until 4 years ago. It’s just really frustrating not being able to do the same thing with the media manager as I could do with the media tool in my Media Composer..
Two other questions I had: Is there a consolidate function somewhere in FCP? and is there a way to select ALL mnedia relatives of a sequence in the finder, so that I can reverse the selection and delete the media that is unrelated to my sequence?
If you have any other suggestions I’m listening. Thank you for responding to my issue.
Kai
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I can’t see how this is happening either and I can’t reproduce it. This may not work, but could you send me the project file with all the sequences and let me know which one you’re trying to media manage.
All the best,
Tom
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD
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Maybe I’ll try that.
Things are a bit busy here today!
Let me know what your email is, I can’t find it in your profile. You can send me an email.
Thanks,
Kai
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Tom,
I found your email.. I sent you some stuff to check out. Thanks!
Kai
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I’m having the same or similar issues. I have a project with a large amount of video on one master clip and no matter what I set my settings to in media manager it states that my final media usage will be 108 gigs for a 4 minute edit. this can’t be right, but no matter what option I check it doesn’t affect the amount of data.
I’ve never had this issue before, but until recently I have always used version 4.
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What version of v5 exactly? What settings are you using in Media Manager? Is your material on your computer?
All the best,
Tom
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD
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5.04 with automatic duck installed. I have tried every setting in media manager and other than making the files offline nothing changes. The problem is that they reference several larger master clips that are 10 bit uncompressed quicktimes (no TC), but shouldn’t media manager be able to reduce to only what I’m using in the timeline. I even made a test sample sequence with 4 clips reference 1 master clip (which was 50gigs) and any options in media manager outputted a 50 gig file.
This can’t possible be right.
All material is on a 250 gig lacie firewiredrive btw.
thanks,
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