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newbie media consolidate
Having my trial by fire, and would appreciate some more experienced users’ help!
Due to timecode and deck control issues, I have to abandon batch capture. I would like to digitize long sections of DV into a master clip, make subclips, and get rid of all the media that doesn’t appear in the subclips.
Questions:
1. My procedure has been: drag the master clip into Viewer, make I/O for subclip, drag subclip back into Browser. Okay?
2. FCP manual 2 says: name each subclip individually if you don’t want FCP to give them numerical names. But when I rename one subclip, that name goes to all subclips. What am I doing wrong, and does it matter if all the subclips have the same name?
3. At some point I lost track of the original master clip in the Browser. Is it okay, in that case, to drag a subclip into Viewer, mark I/O at media start and end, and use that as the master clip?Any tips or gotchas as to consolidate would be welcome! Thanks!
— BC
(Powerbook 17″, digitizing from Canon GL2. — have a G-tech FW drive, but found that the PB doesn’t like having two FW devices plugged in at same time.) -
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My strongest recommendation would be to find a DV deck and dub your footage to a fresh tape. You lose nothing in the dub, it’s a simple file transfer. Then do your capturing using conventional techniques form the dub. The dub will have a clean timecode.
You can waste days, simply DAYS, trying to figure out FCP’s lame and confusing subclip and media management system. Save yourself from jumping into this particular fire till you have several more months working in the application. By that time, subclipping and renaming and media management will make more sense to you.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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Thanks. (I did read the freakin’ manual — I just didn’t believe it, and I do appreciate a real-world perspective on this.)
The only drawback to dumping to tape and recapturing is that I lose all my separate clips. No biggie.
— BC
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