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  • Saving a sequence as a new independent project

    Posted by Joey Bania on April 12, 2011 at 8:00 am

    So you’re working on a trying job for a difficult client. You’ve got 300 odd gigabytes of footage floating around in one giant, poorly organized project. Your client comes to you and says “I’d like to give x,y and z to someone else to edit, you’re too busy”. You say “sure thing”, then promptly realize you have no idea how to deliver.

    Basically, I need to export all the information from a single sequence in my project – including the referenced files – as an entirely new project which I can fob off to the poor bastard who can edit it in the same way I have been but at a different computer.

    How do I deliver?

    David Roth weiss replied 15 years, 1 month ago 5 Members · 4 Replies
  • 4 Replies
  • Michael Gissing

    April 12, 2011 at 8:30 am

    Media Manager.

  • Jules Bodenstein

    April 12, 2011 at 9:45 am

    I would create an AAF of the sequence chosing to copy all media and embed it in the AAF. If you have additional or alternative shots that the new guy may want put all of them on another sequence and export another AAF.

    Gaz Evans

    Workflow Technician
    The diROOM
    https://www.diROOM.com

  • Andy Mees

    April 12, 2011 at 10:56 am

    Gaz, are you on the FCSX beta?

  • David Roth weiss

    April 12, 2011 at 12:09 pm

    Use the Media Manager copy function. It’s made precisely for moving projects to other drives or other facilities.

    Just select the sequences and bins you want to send, and MM will copy all media used in those to a single folder on the new hard drive, along with a new FCP project file named to your specs.

    David Roth Weiss
    Director/Editor/Colorist
    David Weiss Productions, Inc.
    Los Angeles
    https://www.drwfilms.com

    POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

    A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums. Formerly host of the Apple Final Cut Basics, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.

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