[Dan Riley]

I don’t have FCP6 yet so I can’t test it.
You may be correct that something isn’t right.
But in all previous versions since 4.0, the above suggestions worked.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

I know the link below is for FCP 4.5, but that doesn’t matter.
Do what this link tells you and will have no problem uprezzing.

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/basic_onlining_jordan.html

dr

[Dan Riley]

You just made my day too Sean. Helping out a fellow editor is great karma.
But I’m only passing along knowledge I myself learned here about six months ago,
when someone kindly gave me the answer. But we were hoping FCP6 would have
fixed this stupid bug.

Later,
Dan

[Dan Riley]

Well I’m sorry to hear this is still happening with FCP6 (I haven’t upgraded yet).
But my guess is, in your sequence you probably have one of your video tracks
turned off (disabled…dark). This was a bug in previous FCP versions.
It causes edit-to-tape to re render, even when you rendered ALL yourself.
Either delete that track or if you want to save that track for the future,
copy the sequence and delete that track from the version you are trying to layback.

Let us know,
Dan

[Dan Riley]

I read FCP6 does one thing I’m happy about as far as MM goes…
if you change the name of a clip in the browser it will also
change the name of the clip on your hard drive.
I guess some people were seeing this as trouble if you are
using networked storage and multiple people access the clips
but for our situation, SATA RAIDS for each workstation,
it’s not a problem. But I’m with you about how FCP calls media
online, offline, master clips, etc. I’ve never really “got it”.
And I hate using the Media Manager. It’s very tricky.
And it seems FCP6 is the same, as far as I read. I can’t update
until next month, mid project and all.

Here is my most wanted feature in FCP:
Highlight a sequence. Go to the edit menu and select uprez.
A box comes up with a few check marks about what formats etc.
You hit go, it makes a new project, a new sequence and starts asking you
to load reel numbers. It has no problem with nested sections of your sequence either.
Why can’t FCP do that? (way off topic I know, but I’m just in one of those moods).

Dan

[Dan Riley]

Jeremy,

Your way works, but it takes much longer for big jobs.
If you have short reels with not to many takes, then it works well.
But with hour or 90 minute reels from record decks could
have 20 takes or more.
Logging one camera reel and then
duping the in and out points and just changing the
reel number is much faster. Batch one, then then other.

My next multicam will be with three or four hard disks
fed with simultaneous timecode. It will be interesting to see
how to get all those clips to be named correctly and
multiclips made. The reason to do it in the first place
obviously is to save the enormous time of logging and
capturing, but there will still be some work to get clips
cataloged.

The other thing is, I don’t like to have my clips named the same.
When I do the find/replace for a reel change I also change the
clip name (scene23 cam2 take5) to (scene23 cam1 take5).
Makes finding clips and arranging them much easier, for me at least.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

hummm
in my online manual, II-254 is setting keyframes.
I’m still on FCP 5.1.4

As for making the multiclips, I’ve found if you want to do a bunch
of them at the same time from three or four bins of cameras,
you use “make multiclip sequence”. Then you have all your multiclips
in one bin and a complete sequence that is useless (to me anyway)
so I just trash it.
Or are you saying AVID did it the same way?
I never could get AVID to do grouping in any quick way like FCP
but maybe I wasn’t doing it correctly in AVID.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

Forgot to mention…
you need to enter an angle number in the log window when doing multicam editing.
1 for cam1, 2 for cam2, etc. or a, b, c.
If you forget, no biggie,
(but make sure you do this BEFORE you create your multiclips)
In the browser, go to the angle column in the cam2 bin (for instance).
You can change all the angles to any number, even after you have
captured. Change all the cam1 to 1, etc.
Change one of them, then you can change all of them at the same time
by highlighting all the clips.( But you have to do one of them first.)
This is how FCP knows which box to put the camera when you are
watching multiclips.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

Sorry John, I was talking to Sean, in case that isn’t clear.
And I agree with you….

cheers,
dan

[Dan Riley]

Oh My God, you are soooo wrong.
Do you do multicam editing?

Let’s say you have a three camera, simultaneous timecode shoot.
Log and capture your center camera, for instance.
Then from that bin, select all clips, export batch list.
Open that list in textEdit.
Using find/replace, change your cam2 to cam1 (if you titled them that way(for instance)
and change your reel number from 1002 to 1001 (for instance).
Save as a text file.
Make a new bin.
Import batch list at 29.97 (for instance).
Now capture the new bin of clips from your new reel, cam1.
Repeat for Cam3.
Then making multiclips is sooo easy it a joke.
Much easier than AVID.
You simply highlight your three bins and select make mulitclip sequence.
You will get multiclips for each segment.
You will also get a large sequence of all the stuff together,
but I just trash that sequence.

Done.

Dan