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Relinking Nightmare
This past fall I used Media Manager to make a copy of a 4 hour film I am working on as associate editor and sent it home with the editor. My thinking was if he wanted to mess around with the cut while we waited for funds to be secured to finish the film, he could. Well we did a significant cut down in the interim. Now I am trying to take his cut (which came from a Media Manager created project) and trying to get it to relink to the original media on our big system. What a nightmare! It seems that Media Manager added suffixes to the names of clips. For example we have an interview clip IV_Blow, Joe_034. In the cut we would use 3 or four instances of this one clip. The media managed project though, added a number for each instance of the clip. Now when I go back to relink it to the original clip, it can not find it because there is no media with that name (with the added number). I can force it to take the original; but this is a four hour film with 1000’s of pieces of media and would take a week or more to get everything relinked like this.
My questions are, 1-What did I do wrong when creating the original Media Managed project if my intention was to relink it to the big system? 2-Is there an easier and faster way to relink now that it is like this?
Scott Davis
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13 Replies
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If all your media is in one folder,
relinking is easy
Rainer
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Your fault was renaming media clips
Rainer
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No its not. FCP is asking for the media managed clip name (ie IV_Blow, Joe_034 4) not for the original clip name (ie IV_Blow, Joe_034). If I have multiple instances of this then I have to manually locate clip and point it to this. This is a 4 hour doc with 250+ hours of footage and 1000s of pieces of archival. Secondly, all my media is not in one folder. I have a finder based organizational system. GFX in one folder, music in another, etc. Captured media goes in the FCP scratch disc folder.
I wish Philip Hodgets Matchback Magic had been around when we started this.
Scott Davis
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I did not rename anything!!! Media Manager did that when there is multiple instances of the same piece of media it adds a number at the end of the clip.
Scott Davis
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[Scott Davis] “I did not rename anything!!! Media Manager did that when there is multiple instances of the same piece of media it adds a number at the end of the clip. “
They’re not really multiples of the same clip. When you asked Media Manager to delete the unused media, it broke the clips up into sections. These sections can’t share the same name or they’ll overwrite each other, so they get numbered sequentially.
You might try exporting an EDL from the new edit & relinking that to your original source media.
Arnie
Post production is not an afterthought!
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Arnie’s sounds like a good idea. My preference has always been to export XML files of sequences and pass them around, but obviously relies on people having the same media.
Could you try exporting an XML of the cut and doing a find and replace on all _1 (or whatever the added extension is)?
There’s no harm trying, might save you some time. Worried there may be more instances of _1 that you won’t want to change. At least you can make it walk through and you can replace with a key press.
Let me know how it goes.
Michael Cheung
Editor/Assistant Editor/DIT
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BTW, what’s the original media? If it’s tape, then it might be fastest just to recapture.
Arnie
Post production is not an afterthought!
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So if I had not of selected “delete unused media” then it would have copied over the entire clip and linked all instances of it to the one clip? If that is so, then I feel much better as it was operator error and not something inherently wrong with MM.
Scott Davis
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Interesting. I will give that a shot and see how it goes.
Scott Davis
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Media is tape based (HDV, Beta, DV, HDCAM) and QTs (basically everything you can think of), AIFF, JPEGS,PICTS, etc.
Scott Davis
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