Reconform based on Timecode?

[Aaron Neitz]

Sorry for the fuzion:

1)Onlining a music video in HD. Editor sends me his project file over email.

2) MM and make a project with 1sec handles

3) Batch conform clips from HDCAM-SR

4) Several days later they create :60 and :90 cutdowns

5) editor emails sends me new project file

6) MM the 60 and 90 timelines

7) FCP doesn’t seem to have any way to cross reference the clips from the 4 minute timeline with these new 60 and 90’s. What what “reel2 1” from my original capture isn’t the same clip as “reel2 1” from these new timelines. Follow? Since FCP names clips based on the original clip name plus ascending numbers.

Also FCP seems to reconnect clips based on duration IN from the start of a QT file. Not the actual timecode. [I may be completely wrong on this point, but this is what i seem to observe]. And since my cutdowns have shorter clips, when I point FCP to reconnect to a QT it comes up what “media duration, IN/OUT are different, Continue?” And it puts the clip in at the wrong point.

If I’m completely off my rocker and there’s a way to do this, I would pay you in a lifetime of donuts.

[Martin Baker]

No you can’t. Like I said, FCP never reconnects media using source reel and timecode which is what you want to do in this situation. It uses file name and frame offset from the start of the file and that’s it.

You will have to replace the clips manually with your full res media.

Martin
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[Aaron Neitz]

Thanks Martin, that’s exactly what I thought.

Luckily FCP is such a fast editor that hand conforming cutdowns isn’t very hard

[Jeremy Garchow]

What if you media manage differently by keeping “include master clips outside selection” checked, UNCHECK delete unused media from duplicated items.

That might do it for you.

Jeremy