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Re-digitizing a sequence
Hey all –
A client is bringing in a short film that he cut on FCP from time code matching DV dubs of film transfer on Dbeta. He wants to now ‘uprez’ his project from the dbetas, uncompressed. I will get his project file and final sequence on a CD, no media.
What is the best way to handle this and what are the ‘gotchas’ that I need to look out for? I am assuming all effects will be in place (need to re-rendered), but will title media work? Any advice on this workflow would be appreciated.
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Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
Greybox, LLC
Richmond, VA USA
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A newer version of what Shane posted is here and I use it with FCP5
with no problem.
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/basic_onlining_jordan.htmlTitles will come through. Transitions will come through if they
were from FCP and not some plug the other editor had on his system.
Still frames will not always come through. You may have to recreate them.
You will see the timecode number of where the still frame occurred on the
clip title.
Speed changes will not come through. You will need to find out
what was there. Hopefully he’ll give you a copy of his offline
to see what needs to happen.
Bottom line is, FCP is not foolproof when it comes to uprez,
but if you follow the directions in the link above, it will be
pretty good. FCP is NOT an AVID when it comes to this, sadly.
My workaround has been to just do less finishing in the offline
and wait until the uprez to it. The client doesn’t
get as polished an offline but it makes getting the project done
and through the uprez much easier.Dan
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