David Mcclellan
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Never mind – i think it was the end offset setting.
-DM
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I had this happen when there was a corrupt render file. If possible try and purge the renders from that project and re-render it out and see what happens. The other option is to set in and out points to most (like 3/4) of the project and export as master file. See if that works. Then export the rest of it using the same method using in and outs for the tail bit – and then recombine them in a new project and export a final.
-DM
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[Bill Davis] “Isn’t this X’s Consolidate Media function with the “Include used media only” option selected?
That’s pretty much what the manual says it does.
What am I missing here?”
You are missing the fact that X’s Consolidate Media function with the “Include used media only” option does not TRIM the media to just what you are using. It just takes all of the clips you are currently using – includes all of the extraneous material on those clips – and it moves that entire clip – the used part ant the unused part – to a new library. So if you have long takes – you are stuck with them in the library.
Do you understand it now? There is no option or way in X to TRIM or DELETE UNUSED MEDIA from your project. And for various reasons that have been touched upon here in this thread – there needs to be.
-DM
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[Bill Davis] “All but 5% stays in the producers or editors vault. And likely 80% of that is gonna get tossed when the producer gets tired of paying to store the outtakes. As always, right? So what’s the big deal?”
The big deal is that you CAN NOT DO THIS IN FCP X!!!! You teach FCP? is that right? Teach me how to do this in X? How do I get my movie down to the 5% that is actually in my timeline. With or without handles. Forget the handles and why effects teams require them… Just get me to a condensed timeline that I can send — with CONDENSED MEDIA.
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How is a 1.38TB FCPX library of my project all metadata? How do I drop box this massive wad of unused stuff up to my FX team in Toronto when the library is bloated as shit? My used footage is not 1.38TB – that library is 85% garbage that at this point in the project should be MEDIA MANAGED OUT to lean out the library and make it easy to 1. back up – 2. give to other people working on project and 3. limit the amount of media used in the working project for finishing. Today I am tasked with isolating and exporting 18 sequences — not shots – SEQUENCES – in a feature film – that have to be exported where each individual shot inside the sequence has 8 frame handles on either side. Then they have to be rebuilt in a timeline and sent with an XML up to the FX team via drop box. Do you get it now? There is no quick and easy way to do this inside of FCP X. In 7 it was a matter of 1. duplicate project 2. Isolate each sequence cutting out the unused footage from the rest of the film and 3. media managing the sequences into a new project — with handles. Then sending that smaller package out to the fx team. Got it? At most a half hours worth of work. IN X – Even if I just use the sequences I need to send and put them in separate timelines in a new project in a new library in FCP X – minus the rest of the film — – it STILL keeps all of the excess unused media handles in the shots (clips) – and these fools ran the cameras the whole time without cutting so many shots have multiple takes on them and the library is therefore WAY BLOATED.
-DM
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One would hope. I can tell you that they updated Logic with some really kickass stuff. And I actually LIKE cutting in X.1. I wouldn’t go so far as to say it was enjoyable…. but it is a much better experience overall than 7 after the 5 day learning curve. It would be a shame for them to not have more forward momentum after they basically reinvented the editing paradigm. I’m a user and a fan.
-DM
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If your media library on your rough cut of your film can be reduced form say 1.5TB of mostly crap footage down to say 200-300 GB -of just what is being used — well then that is quite a difference – and has nothing to do with prices of hard drives. If you have to export say roughly 18-20 or so segments of your film in order to go out to the effects team to do their thing – again – right now my choices are 1. do it one clip at a time and rebuild for them – not ideal — 2. export whole sequences as a single baked in movies – (and lose all of the cuts in the process) – or 3. Buy Clip Exporter 2 – which kinda sorta does this – but that is all that it really does. It doesn’t media manage any audio at all and has limited functions and costs $120 or so.
That is just one practical example – since i am doing that right now on a film — But there are many other reasons to have a fully functional Media Manager that exports your timeline as individual clips with handles of your liking inside FCP X.
-DM
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MEDIA M A N A G E M E N T….
Jeezus – if you are able to select each clip individually in the timeline by hand and export it to a new file – then open a new project and recreate your old timeline shot by shot – why can’t this process be automated in the click of a button for the thousand or so edits in my film? Just give me a decent way to media manage — at LEAST something like 7 – but better. That is NOT too much to ask for. And it should not be third party. It should be integrated into what is already there. If I can do it myself one clip at a time – the COMPUTER should be able to do it for me in one click.-DM
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[Herb Sevush] ” Or is X perfect and not in need of improvement?”
Surely you jest…
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I have to say that I really like FCP X and have warmed to the new paradigm they have created. However – if there is not an update that addresses the issues I have with media management and the overall laggy feel after working on complex projects – I am likely to punt and move to PP on the next project.
-DM
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