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Red Camera (apple pro res 2ks) and Merged clip instability
Hey i just wanted to throw a general question out there and see if anyone else has had to deal with these issues. I’m assisting on a feature shot on the red camera and cut using 2k apple pro res 422 hq quick times. At the start our audio came in separately from our video files which contained only a two track mix down of our 4-6 tracks of audio. So all the audio had to be manually synched. We were told by the Red One vendors two use the merged clips function to synch audio using the clapper and in points.
We have had all sorts of problems, the first being the malfunction of the fcp trim problem, then arbitrary synch slippage, then final cut pro simply started to not recognize parts of our audio files. The problems seem to get worse as time passes. Has anyone else experienced similar problems? I have heard that Merged clips are buggy but i haven’t heard any solutions. The only thing that seemed to work was when the entire project was made offline, duplicated and then reconnected to a clone drive. However we had to move it and only have one copy of our media here and no time to make a new clone drive. Making offline and then reconnecting to the same media files doesn’t seem to have the desired effect.
Is there anyone out there who has advice with dealing with this problem? It seems that the merges contained within the final cut profect file blows up the project to a size where it is no longer stable.
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I don’t work much with Merged Clips, but seems to me if you exported them as self contained QT movies, then you’d no longer have the problem. Timecode and clip names needs to be maintained, but at least you’re not using merged clips that way.
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yeah i know, thats what should have been done at the beginning but i think its too late for that now. i guess there is no other fix for this problem?
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