Media Manager Help Please!!!!!!!

[Ben Insler]

John,

I just posted this for somoene else as well, but I’ll paste it here for you too.

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Hey Eli,

Have run into this numerous times when dealing with Offline/HDD crash issues resulting in recapturing and reconnecting. I was just at the Macworld FCP class and asked about this – the answer (word for word) : “You’re screwed.” Basically, you have to rebuild all your speed changes. I wish I had a better answer for you, but that’s what they told me and they were teaching the class in FCP 5.
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In terms of your color effects, those should work fine. I don’t know why you’re having a problem (I’m assuming that you’re using FCP filters for these effects).

Ben Insler
Editor
Telemark Films

[Jeremy Garchow]

Do some tests, but the best is to try and put the original clips (that you made the speed affected clips from) at the end of your sequence in their entirety and then media manage. Not fool proof, but it seems to work okay. Unnest all of your nested clips as well.

Also, won’t you use an xml to interchange between 4.5 & 5?

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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 4.5 <> Kona 2

ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 1.25 TB 4105 Fibre

[Mark Raudonis]

Yes, you’re screwed. However, if you look at your new media managed clip, open up the motion tab, you’ll often find something interesting. MM tends to add an extra keyframe. This keyframe is often at the bottom of the graph and obviously incorrect. Deleting this keyframe will often take you back to the original intended effect. This doesn’t always work, but when it does, it sure saves you time.

Good luck.

Mark

[Rob Alexander]

It also depends on how your footage was digitized in the first place. I’ve found that I get far fewer problems (almost none) if I digitize on a clip by clip basis rather than digitizing huge chunks of footage at once. It may be too late for you but that’s my advice for the future. Keeps your project better organized too.

Rob

[David Bogie]

Also, you can simply copy the time altered render files and reinserting them into your timeline. Select the clip in the timeline and export it. Or find the render file and import it to your Browser so it becomes part of the project at the Bin level.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Paul Provost]

another possibility – if you recapture all the footage in the original project, but at full rez, there are no problems with speed changes. of course you will need an enormous amount of drive space, but if you can rent the drives, it might be worth the time saved. we recapture all footage whenever we can. we work with short format, commercials, music videos etc, but we often find re-digitizing 3 or 4 hours of footage is often quicker than trying to fix a media managed 3 minute timeline.
so something that should take half an hour is an all day project. thanks apple. what will you come up with next? a mouse with a scroll wheel and second button? wow!
I’d rather have a couple hundred wasted hours of my life back.