Recapture online from Offline RT from captured DV footage on FW Hard drive instead of the DV Tapes?

[Gunner Jones]

If I am understanding you correctly, you don’t have to recapture. Just make a new offline sequence for DV using the media manager and then re-link to the original files.

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[Andrew G.]

Mario,

There’s a whole article on offline-online procedures at wwww.kenstone.net.

Anyway, here’s what I’d do, assuming your using FCP 4 or later:

1. In your offline project, highlight all of your footage clips and sequences in the Browser.
2. Ctrl-click the selection and choose “Create Offline”
3. In the Media Manager window, select “Create Offline” and choose the online resolution you would like the selected clips to use (i.e. NTSC DV)
4. Select the checkbox at the bottom to create a new project, which will contain the new clips and sequences, and hit OK. Name the new project.
5. FCP will automatically open the new project. In the Browser, you will notice that all of the footage clips are now offline(not offline rez, but offline “missing”). Select all your clips and sequences once again.
6. Ctrl-click the selection and choose “Reconnect Media”
7. Make sure your FW drive is plugged in and Browse for the first clip that FCP looks for. You are now looking for the DV-rez version of that clip. Also make sure that “Reconnect all files in relative path” is checked, so you won’t have to reconnect for every single clip in the same folder.

That should do it. I’m not in front of my desktop right now, so forgive me if some terms are a bit vague.

Andrew

[Mario Rodriguez]

Fantastico!!!!

Thank you guys, you’ve been a big help….

Mario