[Brent Hannigan]

I’m back.

My experience has been that clips, pics or music that are stored on an ethernet network do not always reattach themselves when I start up a FCP project. Even though I move everything locally, occasionally I get lazy and drag a jpeg or an mp3 directly from our server into the timeline or browser. Those clips sometimes lose their connection.
It also happens sometimes with clips stored locally. I reconnect the media, even make sure the clips names match the QT names, save the project, restart the computer and they are presto! offline.

I think the solution is to be extremely careful and organized with clips and bins and make sure everything is brought into the browser before editing. That’s all I can think of.
Does anyone else have this problem?

Brent

[Brent Hannigan]

Hi

Having worked on 4 hour long documentaries in FCP this year I would say (from my own experience) that it is not a good idea to drag movies directly from the finder into your timeline. I have found out that just because it is easy to use this method, in the long run it can cause problems. (eg not being able to match frame among others.)
I would keep things nice and organized in the FCP bin structure. It takes a few more moments but will pay off later.

Brent

[Brent Hannigan]

Thanks for your post but I have moved on to another problem….

Brent

[Brent Hannigan]

try sending it to motion 3 and using optical flow. But first make sure in fcp you rtender the speed effect.

[Brent Hannigan]

No, they don’t. I am starting to think it has something to do with how they were originally imported. i.e. directly from the finder to the viewer.
It seems that FCP allows us to drag and drop everything so easily but it can lead to problems later on. In many ways we have to be much more organized and deliberate than with Avid. Just my opinion.