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Relink mov to R3D
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[Bret Williams] “What a mess.”
No doubt. There are a long list of gotchas with Red.
Again, were the proxy files made with RCX, or where they shot at the same time and recorded in camera?
Sometimes, the format of the media card in the Red can screw this process up (Fat32 vs UDF).
Usually RCX can relink to all the media, though, without the freeze frame.
Another process to try is to make a duplicate timeline in FCPX, strip out all the audio and unnecessary footage (like anything that is not Red originated) and try it on an audioless XML and see if that works.
That should get rid of your sync’d clips too.
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I had to just get our first draft with the 1080p files. Will have to relink later, maybe try the Resolve route.
I wasn’t on set, but I’m guessing the proxies were made in camera as they sit in the same folder with each R3D file on the card structure.
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So the files shouldn’t be spanned? Some of the files have 4 or 5 4.03gig parts. Short clips, but they shot 8k!
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The R3D files will span no matter.
If the card was formatted fat32 the movs will span after 4Gigs. If formatted UDF, the mov will not span.
Do you get the freeze frames in RCX as well?
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Having the same problem with a shoot where we used a red weapon helium to generate 8K r3d’s and 2K prores proxies. Imported the proxies to fcpx to start the edit and then wanted to relink to full res versions when picture locked. Fcpx crashes constantly when we try and relink the first one – can not do it.
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I wonder what would happen if you pulled the movs out of the card directory?
I typically generate proxies with RedCineX and can link/relink back and forth from mov to R3D very easily.
The movs are in a different directory, though, separate from R3D.
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I’ll test tomorrow, but I’ve got a feeling that it still won’t work due to 2 things; the fat32 structure that breaks the movs up into smaller chunks, and in turn I think this causes issues with matching timecode.
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[Tom Sefton] “I’ll test tomorrow, but I’ve got a feeling that it still won’t work due to 2 things; the fat32 structure that breaks the movs up into smaller chunks, and in turn I think this causes issues with matching timecode.”
Yes, I’ve heard about it causing many problems.
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Nope. It works! A bit of a pain to open all those folders and move out the movs, but when you relink and point to the directory for the r3d files, it links them perfectly, spans and all. The problem before was choosing the first of the span caused problems, and choosing the folder choose the mov.
But, when I relink i found that the media is now zoomed way in, even though it’s set to fit. I just reselect fit and it pops into place. Rebooting might have fixed.
PS – little known fact. If FCPX is open and running, you can move the media in the finder and it will keep track. So if you want to move the movs to another folder, do it while FCPX is open and you won’t have to relink them. Some sort of quantum entanglement feature.
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[Bret Williams] “It works!”
Sweet.
[Bret Williams] “Some sort of quantum entanglement feature.”
Ha! Yes it’s handy. It’s been that way since some OS update. It worked at the end of FCP7 too.
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