Online stratigy

[Nick Meyers]

Michael, are you working with DV?
when i stumbled on that “no audo WITHOUT video” issue i thought it was because i was using DV,
and they (A+V) didnt like being seperated?

nick

[Tom Wolsky]

That shouldn’t be an issue. Even in DV you can capture video or audio separately as QT is stripping out the video and audio into separate tracks anyway.

[Bryan Shelton]

While Media Manager can be difficult and is nowhere near as fully functioned as Avid’s Media Tool, FCP does have the added ease of having identifiable, searchable media files. Being able to sort and manage my captured Quicktimes by hand easily makes up for the obnoxious upRez process.

This capacity, as well as the easy to use Reconnect Media function have allowed me to work in tandem with another editor on the same project, trading project files back and forth, by making sure we just had the same media on our local drives. The poor man’s SAN.

Bryan Shelton
Curious Pictures
NYC

[Daryl K davis]

NickM:

“had success with my last big MM’s slow-mos.
i;d prepared for problems by tracking down all the slo-mo shots, copying them to the end of the timeline,
and removing ther speed attibutes. ”

I have done this for a while and I too don’t have problems with speed adjusted clips. It just seems when you have the standard speed clip somewhere in the timeline – I put them at the end after my textless clips – it has a standard basis of the clip to relate to, and there are no problems with the speed adjusted clips. Why I don’t know?

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DK Davis / Editor/ Post Super
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[Nick Meyers]

thanks for confirming this, DK.

hopefuly it wont be such an issue in FCP5.

nick

[Trinity Greer]

Thanks everyone for the great feed back. One question for bryan and DKD, In speed manipulated clips just add the original uneffected clip to the end of the sequence? Or remove the effects from the clips and then add them to the end of a sequence?

Thanks again

[Mel Matsuoka]

[Tom Wolsky] “You could do all that, but about 4/5 of it is unnecessary. Simply copying a sequence into a new project, will break it’s links to the material in the original. Changing the sequence presets and deleting the existing sequence in the new project will do nothing at all. If you’re doing a single sequence that’s all you need.

There are many problems with MM, but your workflow doesn’t address any of them,”

Tom,

Simply copying a sequence into a new project may break all links to material in the original, but it DOES NOT consolidate the media, and *this* is the problem which my workflow tries to address.

We cut TV:30’s, and our offline editor digitizes every frame of *every* dailies reel in DV resolution, in 5 minute chunks, and then subclips the dailies out for editing. This means that, generally speaking, only a second or two of a particular master clip ends up being used in the final product, which I uprez in 10-bit uncompressed for finishing and layoff.

I’ve tried every permutation that I can think of (clearing I/O points on clips before dragging over, Make sequence clips independent, etc etc etc) to try and get your “just drag it over” method to work without grabbing the entire original master clip when i recapture, but it just doesn’t work. I need to use the Media Manager if I want to consolidate the sequence.

Am I missing something here?

Aloha,
mel