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Online / Conform Existing Cuts to New Footage?
Hello! Wondering if anyone out there had any creative ideas to do this more easily than the solution that comes to mind…
My team and I have cut several promos for a feature, and were instructed to do so with temp footage. The footage we were cutting from at the time was not timed or picture locked, and we knew this going in.
We’re now going to receive the final timed and locked version of the film and will need to replace the footage in all of our sequences.
As you’ve probably guessed, the timecode on the old footage will be different than the tapes we originally worked from. So, the super-long way of doing it would be to go through and replace each individual shot in each of the sequences, but this isn’t really a viable solution.
A solution that I came up with as an alternative would be to conform the new footage we receive to our OLD source files, so that the new footage would be the exact length, frame for frame, as those source files and then just replace them as if it were an online. In order to do this, I’d imagine that I’d have to lay down the old footage against the new footage and add slug or delete frames as needed.
Is there any non-destructive way to do this? A way to tell Final Cut, “when referencing frame xx:xx:xx;xx in the origninal source clip, replace it with yy:yy:yy;yy in the new footage?”
Thanks, all!
Nick
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You might not have to do that…..
Load the a master clip of the old temp footage into the Viewer. Park it on an easy to identify frame.
Find the corresponding frame on the new footage. Note the timecode.
Back in the Viewer, select Mody/Timecode..
Change the timecode to match the new footage.
Take the master clip offline (right-click on it, then select Make Offline). For safety, you might elect to leave it on disk or move it to the trash (don’t immediately delete).
Batch re-capture the master clip, using the new footage.
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Was your source material separate original shots or a cut sequence?
Martin
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It was a complete cut feature, from beginning to end. I’m just unsure at this point if they took stuff out or put stuff in.
Thanks!!!
Nick
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That’s what I thought. Unfortunately you’re going to have to match the new footage by eye.
Martin
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