Multiclip Upres Batch Capture Problem

[Steve Price]

Yes, I have the master clips folder open and the clips from Camera 9 Tape 1 are indeed broken into short sections and are offline. However, all the other tapes are in that folder as online clips, each one appearing as a whole tapes worth of footage at around 90 minutes in duration.

My reel names are the same as my tape names – should I change the reel names so that they are numeric, such as 001, 002 etc?

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Steve Price] “My reel names are the same as my tape names”

Steve, you are confusing me. Your reels names should be Camera 1 tape 1, etc. If they are that, isn’t that correct? You tell me. All of camera 9 Tape 1’s REEL (not clip) names should be named Camera 9 Tape 1.

Your CLIP names are the ones that will increment.

If you still have footage online, the media manage did not work. It might have to do with the fact it’s a multiclip.

Jeremy

[Steve Price]

Sorry Jeremy – I think I’m confusing myself too! I had a look at the logging info of my tapes and the same name appears next to ‘Name’ as it does next to ‘Reel’.

Yes, it’s the clip name that gets incremented, but it only happens to one or two clips each time I try it. It seems a bit random when MM decides which clips to put offline and which to keep online.

Given my deadline for this project I think the only way forward is for me to digitise all of my footage from scratch at 10 Bit and then reconnect to the new higher res files. This doesn’t bode well for the future though, I bought this suite specifically to edit concerts and it’s not letting me do that efficiently.

It seems the problem is in killing the multiclip – I thought the Collapse Multiclip function was supposed to deal with that…subsequently my fist impressions of FCP are a bit tainted.

I shall keep investigating though, I’ll let you know how it shapes up.

Thanks for all your help,

Steve.

[Steve Price]

Hi Olivier,

What a nightmare, seems I’ve started my FCP life by dealing with a quite shocking inefficiency of the system.

Thanks very much for posting your thread – I tried a few things suggested in the posts, but to no avail. All I’ve done is lost 2 days of edit time and much of my confidence with Apple and their FCP software.

I’ll let you know if Apple contact me with a remedy.

Cheers,

Steve.

[Michael Gossen]

Another thing to do is to make sure you ‘Make Sequence Clips Independent…’ before you media manage. This sheds the master to affiliate clip relationship, creating totally new, independent clip info for upres. Just an idea.

Michael Gossen
Helium Digital Media

[Steve Price]

Thanks Michael, I tried that too but alas still no joy.

I’m actually very disappointed with Apple about this. If it’s true, as seems to be the case, that FCP has a bug which won’t allow me to recapture my timeline at higher res after multiclip editing, then my system is of little use to me.

Also, if this is true, then surely Apple must know about it. I have made a great investment in this system, yet the last couple of days have just been one big headache and a waste of time and money, and as my deadline approaches I am still no further down the line. Yet what I am trying to achieve is so basic that it’s unbelievable they haven’t sorted it out.

I thought Apple were the antithesis of this culture. Should’ve bought an Avid I guess…

[Olivier Aubut]

Hey Steve
I understand your pain. Media Manager is not apple’s best tool… I can’t wait for an update.
I don’t know if you tried these steps but they worked for me. It’s not the fastest workflow but it got me through 40x half-hour multiclip shows. (Although I was using 5.1.4… I didn’t try it with 6.x)

First, copy your final sequence into a new project. (I don’t know why but MM likes it.)
2. then right your sequence and click media manager
3. choose create offline, deselect “delete unused media…” and click ok
4. You’ll have a new project with your sequence and all your master clips, reconnect them all manually.
5. Now you get a sequence without multiclips (that’s what MM doesn’t like)
6. Now you can recapture or delete unused media with media manager

Hope this helps
sorry if I misunderstood your problem… this might help others.
cheers
Olivier

[Steve Price]

Thanks for that Olivier, but I think I may have found a way around it…

I exported my timeline as an EDL, then imported the EDL into a new project and HEY PRESTO – it’s happily digitising as I type!

I’ll let you know if it all goes t*ts up by the end of the night.

Thanks again,

Best,

Steve.

[Mark Raudonis]

Steve,

Here’s an update to this thread: The latest version of FCP (6.0.3) seems to have fixed this “no shedding” multiclip problem. While your “EDL” approach certainly works, sometimes it’s not practical with complex timelines.

So, if you haven’t upgraded to the latest version, this is an incentive to do so. Give it a whirl and let us know how it goes.

Mark