[Glenn Payne]

Great! Thanks for confirming!

[Glenn Payne]

I just found that you can highlight all clips in the timeline, go to “spacial conform” in the inspector settings and select “fill” from the dropdown box and it seems to make it fill the frame correctly. I’m wondering if that’s the proper way to go about it without causing issues down the line.

Thanks for any input!

[Glenn Payne]

I was going to mention the “remove silent channels” option and the two or three around it. I had them selected a couple days ago and they deleted all my audio on import (camera audio anyway). Upon re-importing without them selected the audio was there.

Sorry I don’t have a better answer. Do you have any other audio options checked?

[Glenn Payne]

I’m sending an xml to my colorist for the film. He doesn’t need any audio othe than the sound of the 2 pop markers at the beginning and end to sync with. I’m assuming losing that audio will help with processIng speeds.

[Glenn Payne]

So I have three reels that make up the feature film. I’ve gone through the process above and it’s worked great other than the last reel not copying due to “lack of space.” Like I mentioned above there should be more than enough free space.

I’m wondering if it’s seeing that the new drive has 2/3s of the files already there, but when I click “consolidate media” with the third reel’s project newly copied to the new library maybe it’s thinking that it’s going to have to send all reels 1, 2, and 3 and possibly it thinks it doesn’t have enough room for all three when it will actually only need to send over the third and final one. Normally with other copying you’d see a “do you want to replace the current files with the new copied ones.” Maybe there’s a chance it isn’t getting that far and therefore incorrectly thinks it doesn’t have enough space.

My current plan is to just delete ALL the footage that has already been copied over (reels 1 and 2), and then copy/”consolidate media” the full new library where all 3 project reel files are now included in the library. (before I was doing them one at a time as they were “copied” to the library file chronologically). Maybe that will get it to work.

I don’t like to let the computer/hard drives run when there are thunderstorms so I’m waiting for a long window of decent weather to give it a shot. I figured I’d see if you guys thought that was a bad idea before I tried it. And apologies if my ramblings don’t make sense. I’m happy to clarify.

thanks!

[Glenn Payne]

Update: Things were going fairly well on the media consolidating, however I’ve hit a snag. I broke the 90 minute film into three reels (roughly 30 minutes each). The first two reels worked pretty well. I just tried to start the third one and I’m getting this message “There is not enough space on drive “DrivenCOLOR” to complete the Consolidate Library Media command.”

I’m using an 8TB external hard drive. The first two reels used up around 3.5TB of the 8TB total. The third and final reel is actually the smallest of the three so it should be even smaller as far as total footage used. So I’m looking at a drive that has 4.5TB free out of 8 yet it’s telling me that I don’t have enough space for to copy over the third reel. Any ideas as to why this is happening or how I can work around it?

Thanks so much!!!
Glenn

[Glenn Payne]

That’s great! Thanks so much, Matt! I’ll give that a shot.

[Glenn Payne]

Thanks so much, Andreas! I’m gonna try some tests on this tonight.

[Glenn Payne]

Thanks so much, Marco!

Does this process copy the raw footage from my original hard drive to the new one during step 3? (in addition to the project, of course)

I’m assuming if/when that happens it will copy every bit of raw footage right? If so, will step 4 delete the unused footage from the actual hard drive?

Thanks again!!!

gp

[Glenn Payne]

Wow. You’re the best! Thanks so much for the great info!

gp