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Up-Res Hell
So I am finished with my doc, Cold Open and 5 Seg’s. I select them and then launch Media Manager. Select make offline and sit back….Now when I am high resing many shots have the wrong time code and where I had no trouble digitizing these clips before now it tells me there are time code breaks and it won’t make the additional clips so it’s leaving it offline….Most of my effects that were applied to many of my clips have not come along to my high res sequence. I have a lot of extra work to do now.
Is this how it always goes? Missing decompose in the Avid right now…..
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Start with this:
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/basic_onlining_jordan.htmlhowever, it will still be not as smooth as AVID. Believe me.
But my experience of doing quite a few uprezes with FCP now is
your clips will work, your color correction and transition effects
will work. Your titles will work (title 3D). But your freeze frames
might not and your speed changed clips might not. For what’s
happening with your time code breaks where you know there isn’t any,
my suggestion is to tell FCP to “warn after capture” in the
user prefs.Dan
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Thanks Dan
I’ll check out the link. Most of my transitions came through but several saphire fx did not.
Biker
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Something tells me you caputured you’re original clips with CAPTURE NOW instead of log and caputure.
EVERYONE…..DON’T EVER DO THIS!!!!!!!
Capture now will capture across timecode breaks and continue the previous code in ascending order.
Capture Now is not meant for professionals using timecode for recaptures.
I assume this is what happened in your case…so it’s not media managers fault…. it started with bad non matching code in the first place.
Solution is to…well…eyeball the online. you’re going to have to capture footage that is close to what you need and then lay it over the top of the old with opacity set under 100 to eyeball picture sync.
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No, I logged everything befor capturing and Batched it all. I’ve been cutting for 10 years, that’s a rookie mistake.
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But did you just log the whole tape as one clip and then batch it?
Because if you did, and you have make new clip on timecode break switched off, you’re still exactly where I said before, capturing over timecode breaks.
The end is still the same.
Go back to the original source tapes and see if the code changes/jumps throughout on starts and stops.
Next, turn on MAKE NEW CLIP ON TIMECODE break in preferences. Keep it on.
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I have precise in’s and out’s from my producer. I have done this a thousand times on the avid and never had these kinds of issues with decompose.
This has been the most troublesome aspect of my entire project. Media manager has NOT kept all my effects with my clips(Saphire glow, blur, BCC noise, FCP strobe), any clip with a speed change has not come through, and several of my stills have been clipped. Not to mention the infernal”Another file in your ascratch has this name……” message!
NO S**T!!!! I am trying to rez-up!!!!!
Up until this I have been happy with my purchase but now I am very dissatisfied and have a ton of additional work to do to get my show to where it needs to be!!!!!
Biker
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Dude,
The link was most helpful. I started from scratch and things went very smoothly. A couple of messed up clips but I have had the same thing happen in Avid. A couple of maddening little things but not bad in the end. All my clips came with their FX and it all laid out well. You were right about the speed clips though. Those I had to re-create.
Thanks again for all your help.
Biker
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