[Editmonkeys]

Hi Mark.

Thanks for the replies. Well they had supposedly picture locked, and I only had a week to conform it. Then the LA producers turned around and said completely change it. The sound guys and VFX guys are faced with similar problems, too.

Unless Media Manager has improved recently, it would never do what it was supposed to do for me. The media-offline recapture files (after media manager) would always still be huge. With a two hour feature, only 1.8 TB of staorage, and having to work 1920 10 bit Uncompressed, I had to keep the handles as small as possible (3 frames). Even if I had used media manager to go from the DV offline res to HD Cam Online, wouldn’t I still have the same problem? Because that also creates new master clips and a new timeline.

I guess it’s a case of ganging the two timelines together and seeing how much I can cut and paste. Thanks for your input though.

Tom.

[Editmonkeys]

No, there was no uprezzing. I recaptured my media at HDCam uncompressed. But only the shots that were used in the final film. Because if you use ‘media manager’ to get rid of all the handles outside what you have actaully used, to allow recapture to ignore what you don’t need, it still keeps loads of extra media on the shots.

My problem is that I need to relate the two project files again. One offline project, 140 mb big (!) made by the editor with about 100 hours of DV media, and my Online project which was stripped down using EDL export / import to be just two hours of HD full res media.