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Media Manager audio from movs
I am posting a hour long project and have been using Media Manager to recompress the show to another format. Works as advertised but I did come across one glitch.
When I first selected the sequence to export, MM was showing me 2.2TB of content in 10-bit! This included 32 hours of content to recompress for my hour, even though I selected delete unused! Something amiss.
After about an hour of removing clips and checking the timeline I discovered the problem. I had originally used ripped DVD titles in QT format that where anywhere from 1-4 hours. These were stock footage screeners. I had subsequently replaced the video but some of the DVD clips audio was still in the timeline here and there..but no video.
MM was trying to recompress or at least copy the entire 1-4 hour DVD QT movies in their entirety. From 9-10 DVD’s! It was using this in it’s calculation of space needed for the recompress even though I only used a few minutes of audio from them! ( The DVD’s all totaled maybe 100 GB in photojpeg so I don’t know where 2.2TB came from other than MM trying to recompress to 10-bit uncompressed – a straight copy would have been closer to 100GB)
I verified this by MMing a small portion of the timeline and examining the media folder. Inside I found a 2 GB movie file from a DVD both audio and video. So bottom line, audio files used in a sequence that originally came from a QT with video, will not get processed seperately. The entire QT movie assosiated with the audio will go along.
To fix this, I made those DVD QT audio clips in the project offline and the next time I MM, the space needed dropped to 300GB. Much more resonable.
Dave Beaty
Dreamtime Entertainment
1625 SE 46th St
Cape Coral FL 33904
239-549-4081
800-446-7575
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3 Replies
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Dave, the real issue here is that those DVD rips didn’t have a Reel Number.
FCP’s Media Manager will NOT trim clips that don’t have a reel#.
one approach to your problem is to simply give those clips reel numbers.
this will still copy the video as well as the audio.another approach would be to batch export the DVD rips to an audio format,
then to force a reconnect to the audio only file.cheers,
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Yeah, I did think of that. But at that point it was the end of a long day and I just figured I’ll go back and export the audio clips one by one and replace them in the timeline.
I wonder if it could be related to the timecode as well on those clips. They were PAL DVD’s ripped to Mpeg2 and then to low bit rate NTSC PJPEG.
Dave
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in this case, it’s the reel#
with the reel# added you may have gotten some other warning about the TC,
and it would have trimmed the file.but with no reel#, MM will just export the whole thing.
cheers,
nick
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