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Media Manager Woes
Has anyone figured a way to get the media manager in Final Cut to do a more efficient job of collecting files for backup? It seems like every time I try to use it I end up having to manually locate all of my files. I use After Effects a lot and the file collection tool Adobe has in this application has never let me down.
Greg Jones
D7,Inc.
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3 Replies
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what is it you’re trying to do?
i;ve never had MM not be able to find something that was online in the sequnce/project
nick
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That’s great Nick… wish I could say the same. In my experience, Media Mangler is simply awful… it loses track of clips left and right. If I attempt to consolidate a job that uses any voiceover that doesn’t have timecode, MM starts the voiceover too early and ends it too late (on every damn clip). It gets confused by motion effects (and even still frames). It consolidates giving different results each time depending upon its mood.
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ok.
here’s some things you can do:
in the browser, give your VO’s a reel#. theat might stop them from slipping around.
in fact make sure everythiing has a reel# (still images wont need this)(hard to fathom how every clip could start early and end late without being timecompressed 🙂 but i get the idea, i think)
as for “locking in” your speed change shots, if you can put the same shot in hte timeline WITHOUT the speed change, then that seems to help.
here’s one way: locate your speed change shots, matchframe them into hte viewer, where they wont have any effect, but they will have the correct in/outs.
edit back into a new track (with visibility turned off) directly above the speed change version.yes it;s a drag, and i agree, it would be great if wee didnt have to do these work-arounds.
speed changes in MM have suposedly been fixed in FCP5.cheers,
nick
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