re-importing proxy files with working titles…

[Shane Ross]

I think you went about it in the wrong way. If you want to export as a lower resolution that someone else can then edit and that you can then relink to the master footage, you need to use the MEDIA MANAGER to RECOMPRESS the footage. This way you retain all the same clip names, reel numbers and time code information. Exporting a QT file won’t do any of this. Well, it might retain the clip name and time code if you exported all the individual clips from the VIEWER…but if you strung together everything into the Timeline and then exported, nothing is retained. Not time code (now the clip will have the timeline time code), not the reel information, not the clip names…nothing.

So not to be harsh, but if you did it the way I said…via the timeline…then you did it in exactly the wrong way. And the only way to rebuild your assistants work is to eye-match your footage.

Only media managing the footage by recompressing or copying will this work properly. And not using the AIC codec, as from what I know, that codec does not retain original timecode. It doesn’t when you use it to capture footage.

Shane

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[Kevin Monahan]

Wouldn’t this work??

Go back to her original FC Express project. Open the project into FCP 6.0.3. Create a new offline sequence at 1080 with the Media Manager. Reconnect the original files with the offline clips.

Kevin Monahan
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Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro

[Nick Meyers]

“And the only way to rebuild your assistants work is to eye-match your footage. ”

not quite.

what that file refers back to is the timeline you exported it from.
so if you still have THAT, then you have a legitimate source to work from.
it IS mainly manual work, but it’s not eye matching.

open a COPY of the assistant sequence in a timeline,tun timecode overlays on.
for this you’ll find it a lot easier the less tracks you have , so go in there and compress to as few tracks as possible.

turn on timecode overlays in the canvas,and you can see the source TC of the exported file.
load the original sequence in to the VIEWER (Drag it there from the browser), and type in those timecodes.
you dont have to go to the tc window, just typing the numbers should work.

mark in/outs in the timeline, and an in in your viewer, then so a “Sequence Contests” edit:
basically hold APPLE while you do the edit,
so Apple F10 instead of F10 to overwrite.

smart move would be to do these new edits to a new set of tracks, keeping the original work for a confidence check.

hope tat helps,
nick

[Jim Calahan]

I think the main problem with FC Express is it treats all QT files as starting with a TC of zero. None of your original TC numbers would have survived the trip to that program.

Jim Calahan
KVIE, Sacramento

[Nick Meyers]

FCE doesn’t destroy or negate the TC, it just ignores it, i believe.

so when you open her project up in FCP,
the clip’s TC will still be intact.

nick