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Swapping Source Media
I recently finished up a project in FCP 7 and Color 1.5 and after seeing how bad everything looks upon export and conversion I want to swap all my source media with ProRes versions of the clips. I actually have two questions:
A. How do I swap out the media while preserving the cuts
B. Will my Color work be preserved in my Color project file even after I’ve accomplished “A?”I’m hoping that if I do swap everything out successfully that I can just open my Color project file and it will just ask me to Render everything over again.
Does anything know if this is the case?
Has anyone tried this?Any info would be helpful, thanks
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The best way to do this is to trick fcp and color.
So FCP and color are looking at your footage currently in a particular folder or group of folders on your hard drive.
With FCP and color closed you can rename these folders, and exactly recreate this structure .. and I mean exactly … file names and relative positions.. with your prores footage so that when you open FCP & FCP, they look for Drive>Directory>File 1 and find it .. but it is now a prores file.
Just tested works with FCP and color as long as files are the exact same name and in the exact place.
Color renders the new files as pro res and only difference is in the sequence settings when you send to FCP … but thats easy to change. -
Got it, thanks I did this and something else to fix the issue. I appreciate the advice
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