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Offlined in FCP – is there a magic switch to make it HD
hope the subject makes sense…
I’ve asked something similar before but was hoping something might have changed wtih the FCP update…
Basically a job was offlined in SD on FCP, now I want to ‘online’ it – a majority of the project is filebased so it would simpl be a matter of reconnecting the media…
The main issue i have now is that if i change the settings to HD – all the moves etc don’t translate properly… IE because it was SD – the clip has a -33 aspectratio and when i reconnect it to a HD square pixel clip, it still has the same settings so i have to change it…
hope this makes sense…
currently what i am trying is exporting to XML and reimporting and stating that it is to be recaptured in HD – but was wondering if there is an easier way…
Cheers,
Justin
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Do you have the media captured in hd?
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yup – just tried the xml thing – and found that (even though i selected it as an option) the filters didn’t copy across at all…
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[Justin] ” just tried the xml thing”
Meaning what, you media managed your timeline to HD to simply did an XML export?
If you media manage (create offline is the choice you want) and choose you HD specs. When the next project opens up, select all the clips in your bins and reconnect to the HD media. Your filters/effects should most defintely transfer. Your positions might not as you have stated before, they are different aspect ratios.
Jeremy
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Have you created an offline sequence to reconnect/recapture to with the Media Manager?
Jerry
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actually just made an xml file – reimported and changed the resolution to import in as …
Just tried media manager – and the aspect ratio has not been translated (as you said)… so it’s pretty much the same as changing the sequence settings in the offline to HD and then reconnecting and manually changing the aspectratio..
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Not quite, I’d keep the media managed sequence and do your online there.
Jeremy
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yup – went to media manager – selected create offline.
When it was done – it opened up the new project – when i reconnected it – the aspect ratios had not changed relative to the project…
thanks for all your help by the way…
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Post more about your process in total. i.e. from HD to SD then back to HD how, etc? How did you downconvert the HD footage to SD? I’m sort of trying to wrap my head around your workflow I think.
Seems to me that if you took HD material, recompressed copies then offlined with them, and went thru MM to create offline and a reconnection, it should have worked OK. If not, maybe there’s a bug here to report?
The aspect ratio that should be correct isn’t in what way?
Let’s just rule out user error in the process and you may have a bug that should be reported to the FCP team.
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 think what he is getting at is that he controlled hid media just like you suggested, Jerry, but he made some moves in position parameters. THose parameters didn’t match up because 320,240 is SD space is different from 320,240 in HD space. He has to now go through and manually change his position parameters.
Did I get that right?
Jeremy
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again, thx for the repsonse all.. I’ve kind of come up with a work flow that works somewhat for me… this is what I have done…
I have oppened the offline project, changed the settings to HD so all the clips are now SD ‘windows’ inside a HD project.
I’ve then gone and had to change the aspect ratio of all the clips to 0 as oppose to 33 (in the motion/aspect settings). but aside from that, everything else has translated quite well, IE a clip that was in the top left hand corner in SD was in the top left hand corner in HD.
Now the issue I had with Media managing was that i lost even more settings – IE sometimes filters didn’t carry across and movememnts didn’t match.
I hope this makes sense.
It is a very long and boring task unfortunately…
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