Ok, I got it jimmy rigged. if I make a new sequence with 8 audio tracks, and copy/paste my timeline… then A1 goes out to 1, A2 goes out to 2, and A7 goes out to 3.
It’s really great in longform. A 2 hour uncompressed HD timeline with 10 layers of graphics and 16 channels of auido = no problem. That was on an old dual G5!
It DOES get sluggish when you have lots of old cuts… like those 35 incremental rough cuts. At that point you duplicate your project file, and delete all that old stuff out and FCP is zooming along. You still have them stored in your old project file for reference.
Yep, that’ll work. I’d make a complete mixdown of your show as a QT reference, bring that back in, drop in into a 29.97 1080 timeline. It’ll repeat frames which simulates 3:2 that you’d have on a 1080i conversion. Timecodes will translate.
Import all your sound files into FCP, get them all highlighted, right click on your Media Start, select “non-drop”. It will switch them all in one swoop
What’s your system setup? In/out hardware?
What’s your source? DV tape? Digibeta?
What kind of drive are you digitizing to?
Versions of everything: OSX, FCP, QT, etc…