Offline to Online worry. HDV footage is already captured!

[Zak Mussig]

I’d imagine you could just take all of the clips in your timeline offline, change your sequence setting and just reconnect to the already captured HDV versions of your media. Can anyone think of problems with that?

Zak

[Gnwanya]

Hi Zak

Thanks for the response, Im hoping that once the edited sequence is done. I can just can go back through media manager to res up and it will relink or ask me to relink with the orignal files. I havent used media manager before, so im not aware of any problems i may come across. Nonethless im crossing fingers.

Thanks again.

Gus

[Brian Lindstrom]

Hi Gus:

This may be helpful:

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=1&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/battistella_david/recapturing_HDV/index.html

Best,
Brian

[Gnwanya]

Hi Brian

Thanks very much, I beleive this discusses the scenario of having to recapture the footage. But its not recapturing HDV footage thats my problem as all my HDV footage is still on my external harddrive. My apologies if i am confusing things. I’ll start from the top.

I already have HDV footage logged and captured natively, and i actually set about editing in a HDV sequence. But when i started to stack layers of footage on top of one another, i was unable to go beyond v3 without having to render every change. I after a few queries, i was informed i didnt have a fast enough system.

So I seleceted everything in my browser window, (HDV footage, sequences) and went into media manager to compress the files into a smaller project. I opened that new project, and started re-editing only to realise i dont know how i can res back up to my HDV sequence once im done with the low res sequence.

I had been mindlessly editing away without actually working out how to resolve my dilemma, and so this is where im at now. I want to now if i can swap out my low res sequence and footages with my hdv sequnce and footages, once i have finished editing.

Again i hope this is clearer. Any advice is appreciated.

Cheers
Gus

[Gnwanya]

Hi Brian

Thanks very much, I beleive this discusses the scenario of having to recapture the footage. But its not recapturing HDV footage thats my problem as all my HDV footage is still on my external harddrive. My apologies if i am confusing things. I’ll start from the top.

I already have HDV footage logged and captured natively, and i actually set about editing in a HDV sequence. But when i started to stack layers of footage on top of one another, i was unable to go beyond v3 without having to render every change. I after a few queries, i was informed i didnt have a fast enough system.

So I seleceted everything in my browser window, (HDV footage, sequences) and went into media manager to compress the files into a smaller project. I opened that new project, and started re-editing only to realise i dont know how i can res back up to my HDV sequence once im done with the low res sequence.

I had been mindlessly editing away without actually working out how to resolve my dilemma, and so this is where im at now. I want to now if i can swap out my low res sequence and footages with my hdv sequnce and footages, once i have finished editing.

Again i hope this is clearer. Any advice is appreciated.

Cheers
Gus

[Gnwanya]

Hi Brian

Thanks very much, I beleive this discusses the scenario of having to recapture the footage. But its not recapturing HDV footage thats my problem as all my HDV footage is still on my external harddrive. My apologies if i am confusing things. I’ll start from the top.

I already have HDV footage logged and captured natively, and i actually set about editing in a HDV sequence. But when i started to stack layers of footage on top of one another, i was unable to go beyond v3 without having to render every change. I after a few queries, i was informed i didnt have a fast enough system.

So I seleceted everything in my browser window, (HDV footage, sequences) and went into media manager to compress the files into a smaller project. I opened that new project, and started re-editing only to realise i dont know how i can res back up to my HDV sequence once im done with the low res sequence.

I had been mindlessly editing away without actually working out how to resolve my dilemma, and so this is where im at now. I want to now if i can swap out my low res sequence and footages with my hdv sequnce and footages, once i have finished editing.

Again i hope this is clearer. Any advice is appreciated.

Cheers
Gus

[Gnwanya]

Apologies!

[Jeremy Garchow]

Cut your low rez sequence, use media manager to create an offline sequence and set it for HDV. When that project opens up, reconnect all the media to your original HD media. The MM is a little misleading as when it says ‘create offline’ what you are really doing is taking the current media you have offline and then telling FPCP to make a sequence where all the clips are offline, but are in the newly chosen format.

Confusing at first but makes sense later.

Jeremy