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Reconnect edit from existing master clips, to new master clips
Hi All,
So I’m doing some assistant editorial on a project where we shot dual system, and I’ve been having to go through the footage and merge the clips so that we’re using the the proper audio and not the reference audio for all of the clips. As I’ve been going through this, the editor has been doing some rough cuts on a separate older project file.I know how to relink media normally, but I’m wondering if there is a way to simply relink his master clips to the new ones so that he doesn’t have to redo any of the edits. We wouldn’t really lose much, as they were pretty rough assemblies, but it would be nice to not have to redo the work.
I’ve thought of doing an EDL or XML export, but I can’t think of anyway to relink just the clips inside of FCP. Any help would be much appreciated, thanks all.
Cheers,George Costakis
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I’m not sure I understand, but let me take a shot:
The editor is using the original clips Set A audio and video. Seperately, you are using Set A video and merging with different audio.
So you want to get his sequence, and have the sequence reference the same video, but new audio.
One way to do this is to export all your merge clips to a new disk location, and then link the sequences to these clips Set B, instead of Set A.
You can’t link original audio of one length, to different audio of a different length, because Final Cut is using offsets from the beginning of the quicktime to calculate media used in a sequence. You have to create audio identical in length to the originals to relink.
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Yea, that’s a good idea to export to another disk and then relink from there. For a spot, this would probably be fine as a workaround, but this happens to be a longform project and I’m dealing with multiple terabytes of harddrive space, so exporting all of the clips back out isn’t really a practical fix in this particular case. I guess I could export just the ones that are being used in the sequence, but that’s still a decent amount. Thanks for the idea though, I hadn’t thought of that. I think what this is going to come to is, “No, FCP can’t relink Sequence clips to Browser clips”. Unfortunately for me.
Cheers,
-George Costakis
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