Syncing up sequence/data with footage….?

[Jeremy Garchow]

If the director doesn’t have FCP, what do they have?

[Shane Ross]

If the footage has been renamed…if the footage names are different on both ends, how can you relink?

Yeah, If he doesn’t have FCP, where is this “sequence data” coming from?

Shane

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[Bernat Aragones]

sorry for the confusion.

It was edited at school and because the semester is done they wipe the computers. So he just dumped the entire project on his hard drive. He’s left to go home and we just where wondering if there was a way to for me to get the project back up to edit more (by just emailing the data files which would be small rather than try to mail back and forth a hard drive as the project is 50+ gbs.)

I wasn’t sure how they relink. Just was curious if it was possible if he had the data/sequence and I had the original footage.

[Matthew Bradshaw]

If you have the original media files that were used in the original project then he just needs to send you the project which is small and email-a-ble. You can then open that project and re-connect to the medial files that you have and you should be able to carry on working on the project. If you have re-named the original media files or if they were renamed when they were worked with before or if they are different from the ones that were used originally then you and final cut are going to have problems.
Hope this helps. Matt.

[Bernat Aragones]

See if you have an autosave project file from a time before you renamed these files (assuming you renamed clips in the Final Cut browser).

Launching an Autosave project will help you reconnect your original clip names, but won’t help if you made a ton of edits after you renamed your clips.

Option 2, you may have to manually rename your clips in Finder (where your scratch disk media resides). If it’s hundreds of clips, that will be tough. But for reference, you could sort your FCP Browser clips by clip duration, and Finder view by file size (assuming all clips were same media type) the two lists should for the most part correspond. Then rename and reconnect.

[Bouke Vahl]

Even if the files have been renamed, they CAN be relinked.

https://www.videotoolshed.com/product/41/fcpreconnect/3

(and Shane should know this, as he has a licence.)

Bouke

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[Shane Ross]

[Bouke Vahl] “(and Shane should know this, as he has a licence.”)

Riiiiight. But you need to have a REEL number, right? Because if you have multiple files that start at 1:00:00:00…or 00:00:00:00 (multiple tapes), and all are REEL 001…that would cause problems, right?

I’m so careful, I haven’t had to resort to using this. I did in testing, so I know it works. Just waiting for the job where someone messes up…

Shane

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[David Roth weiss]

[Shane Ross] “Just waiting for the job where someone messes up… “

Be careful what you wish for my friend…

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Los Angeles

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[Bouke Vahl]

LOL,

But Shane, yes, you do need a matching Reel number. Otherwise there is no way to tell what goes where.
However, sloppy naming (like Reel01 vs reel_01) can be fixed using QTchange (free).
It’s also not too hard to rename the reel on a lot of clips inside FCP, but i never did it myself.
(From memory, you once explained how that goes.)

Bouke

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[David Roth weiss]

[Bouke Vahl] “yes, you do need a matching Reel number. Otherwise there is no way to tell what goes where. “

Bouke,

Your tool looks to be very nice indeed, however, if the editors on a project have no clue about the need to label their tapes, they’re gonna be hosed one way or another, with lots of work ahead to rectify their situation.

As you know, the real problem is, most editors these days have no idea why they need proper reel numbers/names or why they need to take the time to put that identical information on the tape or on the master file as well. So, we often see people who do properly log and label the material in FCP, but when the brown waste material hits the fan, they have no idea which tape to recapture, and of course neither does FCP.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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EPK Colorist – UP IN THE AIR – nominated for six academy awards

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