[Dustin Parsons]

Yeah, that seems to do the trick for the video but my mouse movements are backwards and all the text is upside-down. Maybe there’s another method?

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[Dustin Parsons]

We have a lot of interviews with different fashion models, so if we wanted to make a short piece about makeup tips or something we could Spotlight “makeup tips” and bring up 20 short Quicktimes of different models, import those into FCP and we’re good to go. That’s if we were to cut up the longer Quicktimes and label them according to subject matter.

If we didn’t cut up the longer Quicktimes we’d have to spotlight “makeup” or “makeup advice” or “beauty tips” (the interviewers don’t always say the same thing) then pull up the transcripts and search them for the question, import the corresponding Quicktimes into FCP, then go through each Quicktime and grab the question and drop those into a sequence. That seems much less efficient.

I’ve never had to figure out a workflow for footage that will be archived for use from multiple editors on multiple projects. I could very easily be approaching this completely wrong.

Thanks for the replies, I don’t know what I’d do without this community.

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[Dustin Parsons]

Of course. We would keep the 30min self-contained Quicktimes as is.

[Dustin Parsons] we need to keep the 30min Quicktimes as they are so they’ll correspond to transcriptions.

But if I were to make reference files from that 30min Quicktime, could I work with the reference files like normal self-contained Quicktimes? Does FCP have any issues with that?

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[Dustin Parsons]

Sorry for the unclear explanation, it’s quite a complicated situation.

– We gave the transcription company a lot of small QT files

– The transcription company put them together into about 8 large QT files

– They then applied the Time Code Reader (TCR) to all the files and did the transcription based on the timecode generated by the TCR

– When I got the transcription I put all the small QT files into sequences, making the same 8 large files that the transcription company did

The problem that I’m running into is I need 2 Quicktimes for each of the 8 sequences. One with the tape timecode (so we can find the real-time second/minute equivalent of the tape timecode) and a second Quicktime without timecode so we can go to the same second/minute and grab usable footage (because there’s no burnin).

The problem I’m running into is that it’s taking about 3 hours to export one sequence when I apply the TCR and I was hoping to find a faster way.

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[Dustin Parsons]

Thanks for the suggestion, I thought that would do it too but it’s still taking the same amount of time to export.

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[Dustin Parsons]

I need to export the Timecode as a Quicktime though.

What happened is, the place I work for gave a transcription company a ton of small QT files. The transcription company put those together into hour long pieces and did the transcription based on the clip/tape timecode. So, we have these transcriptions that don’t correspond to the real-time minute/second, which prevents us from simply going from transcription > hour long QT. Instead, we have to go from the transcription > QT with clip/tape timecode (to find what the real-time minute/second equivalent of the clip/tape timecode is) > QT without timecode burnin.

I figured out our workflow for the next time we work with them but I can’t take 2 days to export the QT with TC burnin.

I know this is not a common issue but if anyone can think of a workaround that might fair, I’m looking for any help I can get.

Thanks for the reply.

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[Dustin Parsons]

Perfect. Just what I was looking for.

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[Dustin Parsons]

That’s what I was afraid of.

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[Dustin Parsons]

Having no export/convert/recode sounds great, I’ve never edited that way. I’ll definitely have to look into it, especially if it fixes this problem.

Thanks for the reply

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[Dustin Parsons]

Gotcha. That’s actually what I ended up doing, I was just hoping there’d be something similar to Photoshops quick and easy Align Center for perfectly centered objects in one click.

Thanks

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