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Trimming sequence – Media Manager not working?
I have a 15 min sequence at DV resolution that i want to archive, but so far i haven’t had much luck. Whether i “copy”, “use existing”, or “move”, The media folder always ends up with over 40gb of media.
At DV quality, 15 mins should only be a few Gigs. I realize that the main problem is that my source clips – which are complete 1 hour tapes in some cases – is being copied in their entirety to the “media” folder. My dream, is that MM will copy each clip in the sequence and trim it down with handles. The question is, why is the media in my sequence NOT being “trimmed” by media manager. Is there even a way to do this?
Please, Please help!!!!
FCP 5.0.2, Dual 2ghz G5, Kona SD
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Yes having the same problem. Have a two minute clip that I have used 10 seconds of. Can not for the life of me get FCP to reduce the size to only that which has been used in the sequence.
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you have to remember to UN-check the “include Master Clips” and “include affiliate clips” boxes.
if that;s not working then you need to contriol click on your sequnce before MM and “make Sequnce Clips Independant”
if you;re not finished cutting, you might want to do this on a copy of the sequnce.
another safe way is to copy the sequennce into a new project, (breaks the master/affiliate link), and MM from there.cheers,
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Okay, I finally figured this out…and it was an incredible lesson.
One of the issues with this project, was that there was quite a bit of DV PAL footage, and NTSC DV footage that was captured by other systems…one of which was Vegas5…much to my dismay. “Clients, can’t live with them….”
However, even though the AVI files opened up and worked in FCP, i was still instinctively reluctant to use them – but i didn’t have a really good reason. Now I do.THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM IS TIMECODE. Some media files may look like they have timecode, but they don’t!
Here’s the issue and how i fixed it…and I suspect this will be the issue with anybody else experiencing this. While the AVI files show up in FCP and appear to have Timecode, don’t be fooled, they do not. Thankfully, there’s an incredible tool to check files and fix them, and it’s free.
Sebsky Tools (https://www.dharmafilm.com/sebskytools) will show you whether or not your files really contain timecode, plus if they don’t, you can add a timecode track and specify any number you want.
First, i converted all the AVI files to Quicktimes using Compressor2 – careful not to down-convert the PAL, otherwise the change from 25 to 30 frames will completely mess things up. Then opened the files up in Sebsky…added the appropriate timecode, making sure i matched any numbers that may appear in the original file, then reconnected the footage in my timeline to this new “timecoded” footage.
Amazingly, everything matched up, and now my media has been trimmed completely.
This was my solution, i hope it will work anyone else who has this issue. If any of you have any additional thoughts, I
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thanks for the follow-up,
that’s good info.cheers,
nick
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