Using “Recompress” media referenced by duplicated clips to upres from Proxy to 422

[Shane Ross]

[Edward Harby] “I was wondering if it was possible to use the Recompress option within the media manager as a different way making my prores proxy files into proress 422 as opposed to the log and transfer then batch import method shown in Shane Ross’s tutorials.”

Well…yeah, you can do that. And it will recompress the Proxy footage to ProRes422 …but then you’ve recompressed your low res footage to ProRes 422…you haven’t uprezzed at all. You’ve simply compressed again. It’ll look worse.

[Edward Harby] “His workflow is great but I’m on maverick, and it crashes when I put more than 3 volumes… or just randomly.”

Ah. Using FCP 7 on an unsupported OS…you are bound to have issues. Any way to do this on a different system?

[Edward Harby] “Is the recompress option in media manager making a copy of a copy, or going back to the original files as a means of recompressing.”

It’s recompressing the media you already have in the project.

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[Edward Harby]

Yeah. Ok. I don’t think there’s anyway around it.
Log and transfer on Maverick is a nightmare. Clips get transcoded, but only portion (without showing there’s an error)… crashes. Yeah It’s not supported and never will, I know thatl. That’s why I’m making the transfer to FCP X and getting all this footage to 422. I’ve only got an assembly cut down, and we might shoot more of the documentary.

I think there’s no way around other than the log and transfer route, constantly checking, and restarting FCP after it crashes. Oh well. Better now than never.