Replace Proxies with original footage

[Allan Kader]

Sorry for the delayed responds. Thanks for all the advice.

Ronny, I tried your way and it worked. This saved me big times. Thank you 🙂

Allan

[Ronny Courtens]

Hey James,

Not for relinking to new files. This is the way it goes:

1. When you import files into FCP X and you rename the original files after the importing, FCP X will still recognize the files and it will happily relink to the renamed files when needed.

2. When you want to relink a group of clips to a different set of files (as was the case for the OP), then in the Relink Files window you have to navigate to the folder where the new set of files ar stored.

– If the new files have exactly the same names as the files you want to relink FCP X will recognize the folder and you just have to click Choose to relink all the files in the folder. That’s great.

– But if the new files have a different name than the files you want to relink FCP X will say that “None of the files are found in this folder” and you won’t be able to choose that folder to relink all the files. That sucks. But a little bird has told me this is going to change in the future.

What you can do in this case is to select each clip you want to relink in the Relink Files window and manually match it to the new file that is named differently in the new folder. So you can force-relink clips one by one, but not as a group.

– Ronny

[James Ewart]

Thanks for that Ronny. I get it.

I wonder why they did not generate the proxy files in FCPX first for Allan anyway. I guess they did not have the software.

One day it won’t matter how ill disciplined one is, the software will just get you out of trouble no matter how deep the mire.

Not necessarily a good thing though methinks.

Cheers

James

[Oliver Peters]

[Ronny Courtens] “Oliver, I just did the test in 10.1.3 and yes, it works (see screenshots).”

My apologies. I misinterpreted your earlier post. It used to be possible to create external proxies and place them into the FCP X event’s Proxy media folder and be able to use the internal toggle to go between, without actually using FCP X to transcode the proxies. That’s what I thought you were referring to and that no longer works. Thanks for the other.

Cheers,
Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Karl Madsen]

Thanks for all the great info in this thread.

In this tutorial, I see that they just right click on the event and chose ‘Transcode Media’. In this case they change it into proxy but can’t you just choose’ optimized media’ instead and get the same result?

https://youtu.be/aL7gE-my4_c?t=2m51s

[Robin S. kurz]

[Karl Madsen] “can’t you just choose’ optimized media’ instead and get the same result?”

No. Optimized and proxy are two entirely different things. Optimized is for transcoding your footage into ProRes 422 without any loss in quality, but offers you more performance and realtime effects etc. than with most original media such as H.264, AVCHD etc.

Proxy on the other hand is highly compressed AND just half the resolution of the original. Meant for dealing with very large amounts of media (that would result in way too much data if simply optimized) and/or for offering realtime performance for even the weakest of workstations. Meant purely for editing, not for outputting.

– RK

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[Karl Madsen]

Ok, thanks.

I mean to take this of topic, but how do you check that your native file has actually replaced your proxy? I mean, the project info or the event info does not say anything about this being a proxy file before I start the relink process. Of course there is a difference in the file size. But is this really the only way to distinguish between the two?