media manager

[David Bogie]

Here’s what got posted over at the apple.com FCP forum>
I want to consolidate my footage and project (a 3 minute music video) to a DVD to give to another editor for fine tuning. Adding “handles” in the media manager window would give the editor room to trim cuts while still giving him only the footage i want to give, right?
Does the new project/media end up in one consolidated folder? Then if I move this folder around, say from my desktop to a DVD for bunring and then from the DVD to another editor’s desktop or scratch drive then will FCP look to “reconnect” the clips in the timeline to the media since they have moved to new locations? I should hope not. Afterall, i wouldn’t move anything around within the project/media folder, only the folder itself from one computer to another. PLEASE LET ME KNOW. I want to avoid the “reconnect” process.
thanks
< Oh, wait, it's the same question. bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Dean Sensui]

[raju] “PLEASE LET ME KNOW. I want to avoid the “reconnect” process.
thanks”

You can avoid the reconnect process only if you media manage to a specific drive and then use that specific drive — or a drive with the same name — to move the media to a new system. Otherwise FCP will not know where the media is.

The good news is that when you reconnect, you have the option of letting FCP connect to all the other files if they’re in the same relative location. You won’t have to reconnect to a hundred other files individually.

You can media manage to a specified folder and move that folder. That’s what media manager is for. But, again, you have to maintain the same file path if you want to avoid having to reconnect all the time.

That’s a good reason to have collaborators share the same naming conventions when it comes to scratch drives.

Dean Sensui — http://www.HawaiiGoesFishing.com