[Craig Alan]

Yes use the meters for actual levels but the wave forms allow you to
Key frame small increments of adjustments. That is right click on volume bar and key frame it. Then use range tool to select the adjusted area and click the ? Key to play the selection only while you watch the meters and listen while th headphones. Seems like Fcp x is all about using different windows at once

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[Craig Alan]

normalize. and broadcast safe. used to act as limiters. not sure why -12? why not -6? haven’t used 7 in a couple of years so I might be wrong.

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[Craig Alan]

Not what you want but you could do a screen capture of the time line index and print that.

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[Craig Alan]

Not sure it exactly relates to what your past frustration, but I have on occasion reorganized my finder folder structure and moved P2 footage around. I have been able to relink those files so the exclamation points go away in the project and browser. However, saving space is an on-going need. I have media from short form projects of on average <200gigs each of original P2 card copies.

I now have 12TB of data on two pegasus raids each of which is also backed up to two others.

I think long term I should put the black ups on something cheaper like a hard drive dock and store the labeled drives in cases. But its much faster for me now to just use CCC to clone to the back up as I update and ingest new media.

Very boring tedious work compared to production.

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[Craig Alan]

Thanks you so much!

1) Do you not save a copy of the original media card? Just the rewrapped version?

2) Can this be done retroactively? Can I go through this process with all my saved P2 footage with projects with editing and replace it with the rewrapped versions?

If I get the missing media warning I’ll just direct FCP x to the new files, or will this not work? Weird that legacy can handle this footage better than X.

3) When you rewrap compound folder selection how can you tell what each card was called?

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[Craig Alan]

Thanks Sam,

That could be a huge space saver.

So how do you rewrap the media in FCP 7?
Do you ingest it and select an option in the import preferences?
Then when its done how do you export all the clips to FCP X?

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[Craig Alan]

[Sam Lee] “But unscripted docs, I will span it since it’s unpredictable and don’t want to be bothered with changing media during an important scene that can’t be reshot or recreated. “

That was exactly the case here. And I was a newbie at it. Previously I just told talent that when the media card runs out that particular scene is over. But this time I had a strong feeling it would need to run over 100 min instead of 70 and it did.

My reader is a panasonic AJ-PCD2 with one slot. Is the new thunderbolt one good and capable of maintaining the icons. It would save me time if I didn’t need to create a folder for each card. But I would need to learn to name them in camera like you do.

Now that I copied both card copies to the raid and imported both at once, it broke the clips into the lengths they were shot, just like you said.

I’ll try to blow the dust off an old copy of 7 cause I would really like to cut the file sizes down.

I’m a one man band on this particular on-going non-scripted project and the assistant editing job is so important to its survival.

Thanks again.

PS if I get 7 up and running, I’ll be looking into how to transcode the media. Compressor can’t do this?

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[Craig Alan]

I have a copy of 7 around. Haven’t used in in two years. But would love to get smaller file sizes. Hope I can remember how to use it.

Well the clips now got spanned as i shot it and the two folders for each cam is just a way to sort the clips, It has little after the span to do which card of the two in each cam it got recorded on. It just seems to span what it needs to from the other folder.

Still don’t get how you get the card file icons mounted on your media raid unless its just the result of using shotput pro?

I’ll look into how to start naming clips in the p2 cam.

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[Craig Alan]

So I guess I’ve been doing the best I can without going the shot put pro

is shot out how you are keeping the image of the card itself?

The problem I had the last i tried this was FC kept both folders I created in the finder even though I was trying to span them. I guess it doesn’t matter – it did span the clips that ran long. But it did not treat the two cards as one. I had one pause in the recording and it put the extra clip on one or the other of the two folders I created in the finder as the Camera name in the browser.
I will try it one more time creating a clean new library and see what gives. I need to get those cards back in circulation. Maybe if I put those two folders in a master folder with the master card name? And just point FC to the parent folder?

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[Craig Alan]

So I guess I’ve been doing the best I can without going to shot put pro

is shot put how you are keeping the images of the cards i see in your pics?

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