Redigitizing just a sequence

[Matt Gorney]

Go to the bin where the offline files are and just reconnect them. (Right click the file and select reconnect in the menu).

Hope that’s helpful…?

-Matt

[Bill Buckendorf]

Sorry, I don’t think that would help, in fact I want to avoid redigitizing those clips in their entirety. I have a sequence that’s 5 minutes long and I don’t want to redigitize 5 hours worth of video to get it back online.

Any other thoughts?

-Bill

[Matt Gorney]

Hi Bill,
I think you misunderestiread me.

“Reconnect” will actually “re-link” your files to where they reside on the drive. Kinda like a website link.

So if you already captured your media, then “reconnect” will just tell your Final Cut System where the files are and connect to them, and thus your sequence will also display those files in your timeline.

It’s not redigitizing.

Sorry for not being more clear the first time.

-Matt

[Matt Gorney]

Hey Bill,
Just re-read your post and I’m sorry for giving you unrelated advice.

You can use Media Manager to do this. Just right click the sequence and go to the Media Manager. This function is a bit tricky so use the manual and you can do exactly what you’re aiming to do.

I misunderestiread myself!

-Matt

[John Pale]

[Bill Buckendorf] “I’m trying to redigitize media from a sequence. All of my media is offline. When I select the sequence, FCP wants to redigitize the entire original master clips. How do I get it to redigitize only the media actually used by the sequence?”

There is a bug in FCP 5’s media manager, where if the media is offline, it will not let you trim down the sequence to only the media used. FCP 5.1 corrects this bug.

Just for laughs, try copying your sequence into a new project. This may break the links to the original length media.

[Bill Buckendorf]

Well, copying my sequence into a new project didn’t seem to make a difference. I ended up making independent subclips of all of the clips in my sequence I needed to redigitize, and replaced them back into my sequence. And that worked. It saved some time and saved lots of drive space, but obviously not recommended for larger projects (it was only a couple dozen clips, thankfully). Next time I’ll use media manager to consolidate my sequences before I take them offline. Thanks to John Pale and Onomontopeka for their help!

-Bill