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MEDIA MANAGER bug?
Hello All,
I am trying to investigate whether this is a problem with my 2 projects, or a problem with FCP’s 5.0.2
I have used the media manager to offline and online different projects and this has not helped at all. Basically I work with a online HD station and editors who do their offline at home and when ready, bring their project file to online w/ the original HDCAM footage. We’ve used the media manager in the hopes of shaving off all the unused master clips from the sequence in the timeline. Thus I’m hoping to capture files that just make the online edit. However, on 2 separate occasions (originally I thought it was the person’s project file, but since it’s happened again, I’m stuck) the media manager did not work correctly. It wants to digitize all the files in the bin which doesn’t reflect just clips from the sequence but included excessive files. My first project wanted 7hours of footage for a 1 hour program! In any case, I’ve tried all methods and wonder why this is happening. I did try using the media manager on a file that was created on the computer, making an offline from my online and attempted to redigitize the clips, and it did work on that project. However, as the project was created on the online system, I can’t say that FCP’s working okay. I did notice that the other files were created in other versions of FCP – 4.5 or 5.0
Please Help! Is this a bug in the new FCP?
Thanks!
lili -
2 Replies
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Yes, this has been talked about before. I’ve personally called Apple’s FCP department and asked to speak to a manager – just to bitch about this. It is the stupidest, most ridiculous thing ever, and it certainly doesn’t help break the false, yet commonly held misconception of FCP being inferior to Avid.
Basically, what you’re trying to do does not work in MM if the media is already gone. Since the client is bringing you the project file but with no media, you cannont “Delete Unused Media” or “Don’t Include Master Clips, yada, yada”. It does nothing. Why? Good question. So if the media is already gone, you have to recapture all of the source footage. It’s a total joke.
The only solution for you is to tell the clients to run Media Manager and do this themselves before bringing the project over. Then it will work fine provided they didn’t trash their offline quality media. Hopefully this won’t jeopardize your gig and cause them to search for an Avid editor.
Sean
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Thanks for the info Sean. I gathered just as much, don’t know why MM is such a drag w/ FCP. So when they are doing their “offline” w/ SD mini dv, Shall I tell them to make the sequence clips independant and then use media manager to make files offline and export to a High Def 8bit sequence? What if their version of FCP doesn’t have that, and they don’t have the black magic codec downloaded on the computer. Does that even come up as an option? Or will I have to tell them to bring their project on and external drive w/ all the media and move it to the online drive. Sheesh. FCP is really getting on my nerves. Also, wondering about EDL’s and if I have a sequence w/ 6 video tracks it can’t handle that info – okay, maybe 6 is much, but what about 3 video tracks?
Thanks
lili
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