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syncing clips without losing metadata
Hello, does anyone have a workaround to how FCPX syncs clips? If I log keywords, scene and take information and then sync those clips with their audio (double system workflow) the new synced clips don’t retain any of that metadata I logged. (Thankfully in 10.0.6 “synced clip” is appended to the name rather than put in front). The easiest solution would be to sync first, but without having any logging information it becomes very difficult to identify the correct clips when you’re dealing with more than a dozen – forcing to watch each clip multiple times. This is one of the main things that prevents me from using FCPX, does anyone know of a way to sync clips and retain the metadata? Surely there must be a way.
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Have you tried using a multiclip?
It would allow you to select all the clips and sync them.
You’d have to split it up later with ranges (favorites/keywords/whatever) but allows you to sync a bunch of ekebts at once.
You’d then apply metadata to the multiclip.
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Thanks for the idea but that’s not really what I’m looking for. I’d like to have separate clips for each take and be able to use the built in scene,take, and more columns. If there’s anyone out there using a double system setup, what workflow do you use?
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A lot of the stuff I end up getting is double system. I have the exact same beef. What I end up doing is key wording all my stuff separately prior to synchronzing. Then I set up a Smart Collection for the Synchronized Clips – the keywords stay consistent, so I can easily correlate the Synchronized Clips to the Individual Clips, if necessary.
Then I use Auditions a lot to cycle through various takes.
It’s not ideal, and I wish the metadata would carry through, but it doesn’t. So this method works for me. I used it on a project recently with 16 days worth of rushes, multiple cameras each day, in total about 3TB worth of DSLR H264 rushes. Went smoothly.
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