link digitized footage to batch list

[Arnie Schlissel]

FCP does not work that way. Either have the director pony up more money for deck rental, or get him to speed up, or live with the subclips.

Arnie
Now in post: Peristroika, a film by Slava Tsukerman
https://www.arniepix.com/blog

[Paul Huppe]

Thought so.

Thanks,
Paul

[Bob Flood]

Hi

you cant linka batch list to already captured footage but you could let him subclip the stuff once you have captured it

I think you can make lower res copies that he can use on a macbook, or you can copy to a firewire drive and put it on a second mac, and then he can log and subclip all he wants.

hope this helps

[Nick Meyers]

it seems like it should be possible to add a “Source” column to a batch list,
but FCP doesn’t play along.

there would be ways to automate the re-creation of the subclip using QuicKeys,
but it would take at least a coupe of hours to work it out and perfect the workflow.

Andreas Keil of Spherico Film Tools might be able to work out a method using XML.

i really wish there was a way that FCP could treat an existing file like a tape deck.

nick

[Bob Flood]

Nick

there are quite a few times when it would be desirable to link an edl or batch list to pre digitized media.

when i revise a show i can digitize the master and use that as source, but i often need to re create sections of the show using nothing more than a cmx edl from a different edit system. I Know FCP uses clip names as its source reference, and when i bring in an edl it makes source names derived form event numbers, so there is no way a clip from the edl called
“001A” could relink to “broll plane lands” This is not the first time soemone has wanted to relink clips based on reel numbers and timecode.

a second thing I would like to see is a videotape archive function which would allow me to lay off selected media to tape, and have the project relink to that tape instead of the originals. This would let me make a reel of shots used in a show. It would also solve the problem of waht to do with tapeless footage (p2 for example) when you are done editing. Spherico has soemthing like this, but i dont think it will relink your show to the tape, i think its just to make an copy of selected media for future editing.

my 2 cents

“I like video because its so fast!”

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.

[Nick Meyers]

yeah, Archive to tape.
great avid function.
my assistants have told me about that, although i’ve never used it.

again you’d think there;d be an XML solution possible.
i dont recall seeing one at Spherico.. do remember which product you were thinking of?

there would be a fairly simple QuicKeys soution, too, (for fairly simple sequnces!)
and it would go something like this:

1. play sequence out to tape

2. verify the tape TC and the sequence TC match.

3. use Media Manger to create an offline version of the sequence you’ve archived to tape.
delete unused, no handles.

(step 2 & 3 could happen in any order)

4. use QuickKeys to go thru each clip in the new off-line sequence and copy the sequence TC into the Clip TC.

5. Batch modify the clips Reel# in the browser

(step 4 & 5 could happen in any order)

or something like that…
oh, and no speed mods allowed!

nick

[Bob Flood]

Nick

The app is called XML2TEXT, and one of the functions is to create a batch list of source clips but from a single sequence you have laid to tape.

My trial copy is done, so i was never able to test how far it could go (like was there a way to get an edited sesuence to link to the layoff in stead of the original source clips?) THis would make it much like the archive function we speak of.

“I like video because its so fast!”

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.