[Almut Getto]

Only the Material still in ProRes444 has this folder structure and a fcp.xml file. That´s the only one with the .mov extension (but I have not managed to relink that nevertheless)

The material in ProRes422 organized via Shooting days has only the subfolders picture and sound and a fcp file . (the picture folder has all the files A104C014… without .mov and there´s no xml file)

Haven´t ried the tape name thingy as I don´t know how to do that (?)

I really appreciate your help, Hans. I´m pretty desperate by now. I´m trying to figure this out for 3 full days now 🙁

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[Almut Getto]

Guess you are right, Hans. I wonder why I can´t change it and add the suffix in the finder….

The material was shot on various cameras, but mainly on the Arri Alexa. I was told that someone has already separated the material in shooting days and delivered it with sound in Folders called DT01_Muster. Inside a folder named picture and one named sound. In the folder named picture There´s FCP clips named 70_13_01 (scene etc) and also a lot of files named A101C001_110716_R3AJ etc. (these are the ones lacking the .mov. Clip-Information in FCP says it´s a 25fps 1920 x 1080 Apple ProRes 422 (lt) with square pixel. Also Timecode dodec
The ones in the folder ProRes 444 also exist in this Format, but I linked the ones with the mov Ending !!

I have just imported a few clips into the Avid the old fashion way and no guess what… They don´t relink either 🙁 Coul be the fact though that by mistake I imported as DNxHD 60 (HD720p).
Have to repeat this one…

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[Almut Getto]

Andrew, I tried your suggestions but unfortunately with no success.
Although the sequence including all clips shows up in the bin and it all looks good besides the fact it is offline I just can´t get it relinked.
I have tried once more the shooting day with the 444 files and the .mov suffix. Got them all online… can watch them in the Avid, but they just won´t relink to the sequence.

Is there a way to export the whole FCP project via Media Manager and then get it into the Avid once it is recoded ? Or would I loose all information and connections and have no chance to relink? (if it is possible I´d need some step to step and an idea which codec to use to save disk space….. FCP does not offer me DNxHD. I think I have all codecs installed though…..But I nneed to use something smaller I guess. The project is now 1,4 TB and I only have around 500 GB disk space left)

Hans, your suggestion was not working either 🙁

Any other idea what else I can try?

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[Almut Getto]

ok, so I think I know at least a part of the problem …. AMA only recognizes files with .mov at the end. (which are the ones in 444. Most files are 422 (Lt) and don´t have a suffix. It´s turned of but somehow I can´t change that. Even when I unlock the Info I can´t uncheck the box.

I don´t know why Avid does not accept them without .mov at the end, but i changed a few by hand and then they came online

Still don´t know how to get it relinked…. I have just copied all the data from the rough edit to a new disk and made a new project. But even this version I don´t get relinked.
What the hell is wrong here?

Thanks

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[Almut Getto]

Hi Hans,
will try that in a minute.
Still… MC only finds very few AMA files. Most files I don´t even get online to start with and I just don´t know why.
Any guess?
Thanks, Almut

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[Almut Getto]

Thanks again! I very much appreciate your help!!

I tried it with open bins, but still “no clips have been relinked”.
One of the Problems seems to be, that MC does not recognize the FCP files as QT /AMA files. Only in one case it does- here the files are in Res444, the rest is in 422. Still even with that material yellow there´s no relink to the sequenz possible. I have noticed that the yellow clips refer to name and source and the offline clips refer to Name and Tape. The tape-name here seems to equal the name of the yellow clips (the source there is basically the name plus .mov)

So may be it is a setting problem ? Avid looks for tapes but the fcp clips only content sources?

All files in the FCP Folders (They are organized as Shooting days and content is a folder names Picture-clips have no suffix (could that be a problem?) and a folder named sound- clips are .wave- and a fcp file. Sound and picture is synced in FCP, but when I do an export via automatic duck and an import of the sequence I end up in MC with separate sound and picture clips.

This is really a pain 🙁

Any other Idea?

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[Almut Getto]

Hi, thanks ever so much for the quick reply !!
I think there´s actually a chance, the clips have been renamed. But I don´t know. I don´t now anything about FCP. All I see is, that the clips, once imported into Avid, are name referring to the scenes and takes. So I see an offline sequence named something like 90b1_2 but there seems to be only corresponding files with names like A1338b557f666 (That´s random)

I wonder if I need to tell the people that have sent me the material to deliver something different ? Then again.. I get the FCP Project online in FCP.

Any suggestion to finish the programme in FCP is useless. I just can´t edit in FCP. I don´t know the programme at all

So what can I do??????

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