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Replace Proxies with original footage
So I was recently given ONLY the proxies to work with (music video project). And now that the final edit has been made I will soon be given the original footage that will need to be replaced with all of the proxies.
The original footage and the proxies have the same file naming, so I’m thinking I can do the following:
1.Move the all of the proxies to a different folder so FCPX can’t link to them.
2.Simply move all of the original footage inside of the folder where the proxies were, where FCPX would link the proxies.Could this work?
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17 Replies
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Did they import everything into an FCPX Library as managed or external media prior to sending you the proxy files?
Did the Proxy files come to you in an event in a Library?
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No, that definitely won’t work. Are the proxies in fact in the proxies folder? Meaning, are you editing with FCP set to proxy mode?
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Unless the proxies were actually created and managed using the FCP X original/optimized/proxy workflow, it is highly unlikely that you will be able to relink them inside FCP X, no matter what you do. You should be able to relink these if you go through a Resolve roundtrip.
Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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[Oliver Peters] “Unless the proxies were actually created and managed using the FCP X original/optimized/proxy workflow”
Yes, which is why I asked. If they in fact were, then getting the actual original/optimized media later on and relinking could work. Otherwise you’re pretty much left with going through Resolve, Xto7 and back or the likes, yeah.
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This is perfectly possible, as long as you don’t start messing with the FCP X folders yourself. Here’s how you do this right inside FCP X:
– If the proxy files have been generated in FCP X and they have sent you a Library with only the proxy files and without the Original Media (which can be done): just import the high-quality original media in your Library, switch the Viewer settings to Optimized/Original and your Project will connect to the original high-quality media.
– If they have sent you ProRes Proxy copies that were created from the high-quality original media in an external conversion program, you have imported these Proxy copies in your FCP X Library and now you want to replace the “Proxy” media with the high-quality original media: you can relink to the high-quality media without any problems as long as the high-quality media have exactly the same name and file extension as the “Proxy” copies you have been using.
If the high-quality files have different names than the proxy copies you have been using: you can still relink the proxy copies to the high-quality files within FCP X, but you will have to do it on a clip-by-clip basis. So you as long as you are sure that all high-quality files have the same names as your proxy copies you will be good.
I just tested these workflows successfully.
– Ronny
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[Ronny Courtens] “- If they have sent you ProRes Proxy copies that were created from the high-quality original media in an external conversion program, you have imported these Proxy copies in your FCP X Library and now you want to replace the “Proxy” media with the high-quality original media: you can relink to the high-quality media without any problems as long as the high-quality media have exactly the same name and file extension as the “Proxy” copies you have been using. “
Has this worked for you lately? I have done this successfully before 10.1, but not since then.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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It’s the second situation you mentioned.
So how would I go about replacing all of the prores proxies with the prores 422?
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Oliver, I just did the test in 10.1.3 and yes, it works (see screenshots).
Alan,
Just make sure that the ProRes 422 files shave exactly the same file name and file extension as the ProRes Proxy files you have been using.
Then in FCP X select the Event and choose File > Relink Files.
In the Relink Files window that opens, make sure to select Relink: All.
Then press the Locate All button, navigate to the folder where your ProRes 422 files are stored and click Choose.
FCP X will match the ProRes Proxy files to the ProRes 422 files, then all you need is to press the Relink button and all your proxy clips in the Event will be linked to your ProRes 422 files.Here’s some screenshots:
I have a media folder with original DVCPRO HD files and a folder with ProRes LT files that were created from the original DVCPRO HD files in Compressor:
I have imported the ProRes LT files in my FCP X Library:
I select the Event and relink the LT files to the original DVCPRO HD files in the DVCPRO HD folder:
When the clips are relinked I select Reveal In Finder and I can see that the clips now actually link to the original DVCPRO HD files and no longer to the ProRes LT files:
– Ronny
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Out of interest with different file names would there not be enough shared metadata for FCP to still figure it out?
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[Allan Kader] “So how would I go about replacing all of the prores proxies with the prores 422?”
Too bad we still don’t know where exactly those files live at the moment.
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