OfflineRT Trouble

[Jerry Hofmann]

Try this…

Duplicate the offlineRT sequence.

Change the duplicate sequence to be full res… DV or whatever…

Then select all mulitclips, and collapse them by right clicking on them and selecting that option.

Next, select all clips in the duplicated sequence, and right click on one of them to select “Reconnect media”. Then select the folder that contains the full res clips, connect the first, and then all the rest should reconnect to the high res media.

As far as your keys go, I suspect that you’re not connected to the full res and/or the parameters of the key need to be adjusted for the full res clips… I seriously doubt that the photo jpeg material’s color is exactly the same as the original clip’s color, thus the difference the quality of the key.

Jerry

[Frank J. lozano]

Thank you Jerry – I’m going to try this as soon as I get home tonight.

[Frank J. lozano]

Jerry – I was unsuccessful in returning the offline sequence to full rez. here’s what I did:

Duplicate the offlineRT sequence. I simply copy/pasted within the browser.

Change the duplicate sequence to be full res… DV or whatever… I tried multiple versions; first matching the original clip size, fps, codec then variations.

Then select all mulitclips, and collapse them by right clicking on them and selecting that option. I opened the sequence copy and collapsed clips.

Next, select all clips in the duplicated sequence, and right click on one of them to select “Reconnect media”. Then select the folder that contains the full res clips, connect the first, and then all the rest should reconnect to the high res media. Everytime I did this the clips didn’t seem to reconnect, even though the they were all listed, the first clip highlighted and I chose the folder containing the full rez clips.

Dazed and confuzed in Seattle,
Frank

[Jerry Hofmann]

The duplicate sequence should match the properties of the full res clips… what are they? DV? or?

Another way to do this is to select the offlineRT sequence, and open it with Media Manager. Then select

Make offline,
and set the res to match the high res clips… when you do this, it will make a new project file containing the new sequence, and you should be able to reconnect the high res media to it as long as you’ve not changed master clip names.

Jerry

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[Frank J. lozano]

Jerry – The source clips are the Modest Mouse stuff at https://edcommunity.apple.com/epic/contest.php

I did as you describe using Media Manager and the master clip names have not been changed, but something is still weird because like i said the clips show up in the reconnect media dialogue box, I point to the folder and click connect – then something happens (?) but the clips stay as is.

My understanding is by making a copy-sequence and using it’s settings to give it hi-rez properties, you’re in a sense creating a container – then the next step would be to make the offline clips whithin the copy sequence hi-rez by reconnecting them to the original clips. So should the copy-sequence settings match the attributes of the original clips?

Thanks,
Frank

[Jerry Hofmann]

Yes, they should match the sequence setting… to find out what they are, import one, then select it, and type cmd+9… a window will open that shows the clip’s properties… it looks like it could be either DV 16::9 or it’s DVCPROHD… not DV at all.. which could be why you’re having problems.

Jerry

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Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here

Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D

[Frank J. lozano]

Jerry The clips are 59.94 fps, square pixels, Apple Intermediate Codec and an anamorphic frame size that escapes me right now.

If I wanted to start fresh and not lose my edits, what method would I use to retain the edits? Would I export an edit list or something?

Thanks,
Frank