Reconnecting media from Motion Jpeg to Blackmagic 10 bit

[Jerry Hofmann]

Try using the media manager to create that offline sequence on the Laptop… select make offline for the duplicated sequence, set it to match the original captured files, and reconnect that copy to the uncompressed media.

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[Daniel Garcia robles]

Hi Jerry,

thanks for the comment, but your method is actually erroneous. If you do that, what happens is, you are working on a sequence which was customised to work with offline quality footage, therefore, when you reconnect the footage (after you make it offline), you will have uncompressed footage in a sequence that was meant for offline, needing to render as a consequence. The problem here is that, even when I create a sequence to match the settings of uncompressed footage, FCP stills needs to render (that is even when footage and sequence settings match!)…I wonder if there is something hidden which I have overlooked, but I have extensively searched and everything seems to be in order so I do not know what this still happens…
I appreciate your help! : )
I wonder if anyone else has come up with a problem like this before…

Daniel

[Todd Beabout]

One thing you could try would be to start a new sequence (Uncompressed 10-bit as your “Easy Setup”) and then copy paste your entire sequence from the old into the new sequence. See if that has any effect.

-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios

[Daniel Garcia robles]

Thanks Todd,

Actually, for me to be able to get the uncompressed footage from the offline sequence I have no other choice but copying it and pasting it to another sequence with the right settings (matching format etc)…but it doesn’t work for some strange reason, that is my problem here.
Thanks so much for your help…still no idea what can be causing this…

Daniel

[John Christie]

Open a clip from your sequence in the viewer and check inside the motion tab to see if any scaling or distort has been added to your clips. I find that’s an issue when reusing media in different rez timelines.

Cheers

John Christie

[Sean Oneil]

Daniel, I understand you think the new sequence settings matches the settings of the reconnected clips. It does not. If it did, you would not have to render. It’s that simple.

I’m fairly certain that your clips have Motion attributes applied to them because they were altered to match the frame size for your offline P-JPEG work.

You need to open up one of the clips and go into the Motion tab. Make sure scale, center, and anchor point are set to zero. Now click the triangle next to “Distort”. Make sure “Aspect Ratio” is set to zero as well.

If any of these are not zero, you need to select all of the clips in the sequence, ctrl-click, and select “Remove Attributes”. Then check the appropriate boxes.

[Todd Beabout]

Another easy way to do this (rather than putting each clip into the canvas) would be to select all the clips in your timeline, right-click and select “Remove Attributes”. Then select “Basic Motion” and “Distort” to reset all the clips at once.

Post back if this was your problem.

-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios

[Daniel Garcia robles]

Thanks for your help John, yes, you were right, there was a change in aspect ration applied to the footage…something I wasn’t aware of…so, that is the mistery solved!! I will have to remember to change the aspect ratio every time I replace the footage! Cheers!

Daniel

[Daniel Garcia robles]

Thank you so much for your help Sean, as I said when replying to John, you were right, my aspect ratio settings had been modified when creating the new low-res project but I couldn’t understand why because what I normaly do is to export on Motion Jpeg at 750×576 so, the aspect ratio should be the same when reconnecting the footage…anyway, it seems pretty easy to fix by removing all motion attributes applied to the clips on the timeline…so, will have to remember that next time! Cheers!!

Daniel

[Daniel Garcia robles]

Thank you Todd, that is a very good trick, specially now that I know that was my problem!!!
Cheers

Daniel