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Offline to Online Resolutions
I’m working on a feature length doc which has 200+ hours of original footage- all digitized via FCP 4.5 to OfflinePAL resolution. I’ve selected about 50 hours of footage and assembled them into a series of selects sequences that I’ll use for the film. My employer is interested in recapturing at full DV rez as I get into cutting the film. I’m not sure the most efficient way to do this. We do have two systems, so one could be recapturing the sequences while I edit scenes on another, and I could just edit sections of the film that wouldn’t reference the tapes being captured- then when capturing is complete, move to another section of the film. Sound like the best way to approach this?
Also, there is a major problem with the tapes, all of which have scores of TC breaks (I know, I know), so if I had my select sequences recaptured- I would not be able to capture with handles of more than a few seconds. Because this footage is now going to become all of my master material, I’d want to get as much of it as possible. Is there a way to “find all relative clips” as there was in Avid? Is there something else some one might suggest?
Thanks,
Nate Smith
System one: G5, 2 ghz dual, 1 gb RAM, OS 10.3.something, FCP 4.5
System two: G4 laptop, good RAM, TIger (Sorry- neither of these are my system- they’re both at an office, I’m at home) -
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Highlight the sequence(s) you want to recapture, and control click on one of them to open the media manager.
In the Media Manager window, select:
Make Offline,
Set the res to DV,
Delete unused media.
Create a new project file.This will create a new offline set of sequences and master clips of these sequences for recapture. If you’ve logged the tapes like 1, 1a (after TC break) 1b (next material after next TC break) this won’t be hard to recapture… you’ll just ff the tape to the next set of TC when the computer is done with 1 and asks for 1 a… etc.. of course if you didn’t log this way, you are in a world of pain, you’d have to figure out which part of the duplicate TC the clip really comes from and change it’s tape name first.
I’d do this then recapture, then edit… doing it at the same time will result in more headaches, becuase reconnecting to these shorter new clips may really be unworkable…
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D
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I recently went through up rez. A great help to me and allowed me to up rez practically error free was the following response to a post I had made:
Start with this:
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/basic_onlining_jordan.htmlhowever, it will still be not as smooth as AVID. Believe me.
But my experience of doing quite a few uprezes with FCP now is
your clips will work, your color correction and transition effects
will work. Your titles will work (title 3D). But your freeze frames
might not and your speed changed clips might not. For what’s
happening with your time code breaks where you know there isn’t any,
my suggestion is to tell FCP to “warn after capture” in the
user prefs.Dan
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