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Replace footage with NO AUDIO TRACK footage of same name
I color corrected a bunch of footage in Color then changed the name to match the original source footage and reconnect. Much of the footage refuses to reconnect. What can I do??? It’s not like it’s messed up or anything, it just won’t re-attach. Some will, some won’t. Ugh.
The original footage was HDV, the replacement footage is Prores but that shouldn’t matter cause it works for some, I made the appropriate adjustments to the sequence settings.
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[Johnathan Throbins] “It’s not like it’s messed up or anything”
Yes, you did…because you…
[Johnathan Throbins] “olor corrected a bunch of footage in Color then changed the name to match the original source footage and reconnect.”
That is not how you do things when working with COLOR….that is the wrong workflow. What you do is highlight your sequence, choose SEND TO COLOR…then color correct, render out…then choose SEND TO FCP and then boom, you have a new sequence that references that color corrected media. Or you export an XML from Color and import that into FCP…same result. You don’t do what you did.
I think it’s time to get Walter Biscardi’s COLOR tutorial DVD:
https://store.creativecow.net/p/66/stop_staring_and_start_grading_with_apple_color
Shane
GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
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Yeah, I know what the proper workflow is and use it regularly, the problem is, my editor decided to use 15 video tracks which pushes the main tracks off the bottom in color and can’t be viewed (color only sees 9 tracks unless you have a way around this). In addition, there are about 600 cuts in the sequence but only 270 actual clips. Since Color is retarded and can’t link the cut clips, I decided I’m better off doing the clips themselves. I’ve done this before without problem. The weird thing is, a good portion of the clips relink. Maybe 15% of them, not enough to be worth much, but the remaining clips fail, even when I very specifically relink one clip, it doesn’t take. Can you think of any reason this would be happening? I’m starting to wonder if it has less to do with the color part of things and more to do with the project itself. There are a lot of subclips and things….
Anyway I’m not looking for tips on what I should have done, but rather, a way to fix what’s happening since it’s a lot of work to redo and I don’t have the time.
If anyone has any ideas I’d much appreciate it.
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I did some experiments with exporting XML from final cut and manually editing parts to see if that would change anything but I couldn’t find anything useful. -
Once had a problem with getting renders back into FCP from Color and solved it by going to the Color render storage and importing each of the separate render files (with render names) back into FCP project and placing them onto timeline one by one. Not a pleasant workflow!
Ron Milestone
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