Ben Insler
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Copied directly through finder from one system to the next.
Don’t honestly remember the source of the sound system. It was recorded by a recordist to a CF card and haven’t had a problem with is since when the edit has been contained to one system.
Thinking it over, I don’t remember having the problem the first few times I passed the project back and forth, but I could be wrong about that. I thought it was a journaling issue since the media was stored on my MB Pro’s hard drive, which at the time was not partitioned. I recently upgraded the hard drive in the MB Pro, partitioned it with a non-journaled media partition. I recopied all the media over from the original media on the MacPro to the new partition. Still happens.
Ben Insler
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Sequences take up the meat of a project file, not the footage you’ve imported. Separately, simply deleting sequences from a project doesn’t simplify the project file as much as we’d all expect.
I’m hesitant to suggest this because it can become an organizational nightmare, but I’d make a new, empty project and copy over all the media in your browser from your old project. No sequences, just media. Then copy in only the sequence(s) you need to keep editing. This way, you have all your media accessible to search, and can continue to move forward with your edit. Save this as a NEW file, and further I’d suggest saving incrementally to have a non-crashing project to be able to return to easily.
One thing you’ll probably lose (some care, some don’t) are your master clip connections between the clips in your timeline and the master media in your browser, meaning pressing Shift+F on a clip in the timeline won’t show you the master clip in the browser. You can still match frame to get back to your clean source without having to navigate through the browser every time, but if browser organization is the key to all the info relating to your clips (date shot, archive source, etc), you could be opening up a whole new can of worms.
Hope that helps!
Ben
Ben Insler
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Copy FCP Project file from one system to another, reconnect media, update sequence settings to match video codec and resolution.
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I would agree. Presumably, even if you’re editing in LT, you’re using full quality audio. You can prep/send your OMF from the offline LT edit, then upres for online with picture only and all sound removed. As long as the clip name/length/reel info remain the same, you shouldn’t (I say cautiously) have any problems reconnecting to different resolution/codec media of the same clip, and the merged clip relationship to the audio shouldn’t cause any problems because the audio is gone.
As standard practice, I always make an offline locked picture reference to compare my online reconnect against.
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I personally tend to keep my project files where the media is. When working on multiple projects, with multiple editors or in multiple places, I have found security in knowing that everything related to a project is organized in one place. This is handy for archiving as well, so you don’t have to hunt around as the project has scattered across your system (Yes, I know it’s just a project file, but if you’re anal about organization like me, one thing out of place will lead to an hour of checking to make sure you have everything).
Nonetheless, I always have FCP autosaving at 15min increments to a different drive than where the project file is. I also have my whole system mirroring to a separate set of drives once a day. This way, any point in the system can fail. No more than 15min of work should have to be redone, and getting up and running in the case of a media drive crash is as simple as a drag and drop transfer.
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Click in the canvas. Press W.
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I’ve heard about this before but not experienced it or heard of a fix.
Sounds like a preferences issue. Trash em?
If you start a new project and copy footage in from the timeline in question, does the same thing happen? Does it happen on another FCP system when opening the same project?
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[Shane Ross] “It pastes the content of the timeline in a TEXT window?”
No, it pastes the last block of text you copied to the clipboard. So let’s say you were typing an email, forgot you were supposed to hit ‘reply all,’ copied your four line email to paste into the new message, and then 10 minutes later went to output a QT movie of your latest cut of “Zombie Village, Episode 3” You try to type the file name “ZV_ep3_v04rc” and when you press Shift+V for “V,” the four lines from your previous email end up in the Save As name field. Kinda frustrating.
[Shane Ross] “I can now…reconnect. Or do you mean in some other instance?”
No – meant reconnect. That’s good.
[Shane Ross] “Why the need for LONG names?”
“Cut4” doesn’t really mean anything when you’re working with 6 different editors on a 39 ep series. The filename may need to reflect, Ep name, number, version, editor, etc., like “ZV_ep03_BI_v103_FC_toNetwork.mov” I shouldn’t have to call it “cut 3” and then rename it as an extra step. Or maybe I should…
Anyway. All in all, good improvements, and thanks Jeff for the reading material.
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Does anyone know where a full list of features is posted – like a white paper or something? Sounds like this was a “let’s fix people’s workarounds” release for FCP. Markers – awesome, and like Shane said, I guess I won’t have to be placing text slate notes in my timeline when I want my comments to respond to edits (although not working with the TTTT move – that’s too bad). But I feel like I keep hearing about the same 10 features that are on apple’s website.
I personally haven’t picked it up yet. Did they fix the little bugs, like the fact that pressing Shift+V in the export window frequently pastes the contents of your clipboard rather than typing a capital V? Can you rename video/audio tracks from v1/v2/a1/a2 etc.? Relink Render files? Do long name exports of reference movies still get an arbitrary code on the tail end of their name, causing them to lose their embedded QT Timecode? And I’d love if they’d add a channel map window so I could see/set where all my audio channels were mapped at once rather than having to right click on each one.
Can’t wait to play with it. Thanks for posting!
Ben
Ben Insler
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Gotcha. Thanks.
Turns out I’m using AFX 6.5 (i know…I know…), and that function wasn’t introduced until CS3. So I’ve come up with a new idea for driving the effect I’m looking for, but I’m having trouble with the driving expression. Can you have one expression, in one layer, drive many other layers. For example, if I have 10 solids (solid01 – solid10) in compA, and another solid (driver01) in CompB, can an expression use driver01.rotation to control the rotation of all 10 solids, without writing an expression for each?
I was hoping to do something along the lines of this in the rotation attribute of the driver solid (and I don’t know if the syntax is write here, just using it as an example):
for(i = 1, i<=10, i++) comp("compA").layer(i).rotation = rotation; The results of this don't calculate onto solid01 - solid10. However, if I write an expression for each solid's rotation in compA referencing the driver's rotation, everything works. Any way to just have one expression drive all? Thanks again! Ben