Heath Alseike
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Awesome, thank you!
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I am not sure how much you know about post-production. Starting with the basics, I think you are talking about a technique called compositing. Rotoscoping is one way to composite footage. There are many techniques used to layer elements into footage. I would suggest youtubing and learning all about compositing. That should explain how they added all the extras to any scene.
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Awesome, thank you everybody for helping me out. The quality was set to better. I ended up creating a new project and that did work. I don’t know what was wrong with the first one but, good call and thank you Jeff. So simple.
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Arthur
OK so after messing with this for a few days there isn’t a way to fix this issue. The best I could do was a work around. I ended up having to delete all the clips with the same name. Re-name all of them with different names through the finder. Re-import all of the clips back into final cot. Then go into each edit that used those clips and re-edit them back into the edit. It was a real pain in the butt and waste of time.
I was lucky that I only had 3 edits using these clips and they were roughly %10 of each edit. If you were dealing with more edits, this might not be a viable solution.
I researched it, not being able to change the name of the clips is one of the biggest problems with the AVCHD bundle. However, if you show package contents on the AVCHD bundle, then show package contents on the BDMV, then open the Stream folder, those are the actual video files. From here on out I will go into that folder, convert all those files to mpeg or mp4 or whatever I like, save them somewhere else, re-name them all, then import. Doing this I will never run into that issue again. It is a huge pain but, it is what it is I guess. I hope sony will fix this issue soon so we can simply name our clips whatever we want right off the bat and save our self’s this headache.
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Arthur and or Anyone that can Help
I was wondering if you were able to figure out a solution to this problem. I am having the same problem and it is seemingly impossible to fix.
I have been working with the same project for a few months now just importing more footage as I go. When I originally imported the footage it did not have any issues. Later my disc was getting full so I wanted to move some of the files to an external, then relink them to free up space on my computer. However, when I went to relink all the files, I ran into the same issue. I have multiple projects containing files with the same name. Different files, they just have the same name. Exact same AVCHD files you mentioned that are auto named clip #1, clip #2 and so on.
When I relinked the files; all clips with the name “clip #1” for example were linked to a single “clip #1” video file. Not each “clip #1” to the correct corresponding “clip #1” in each event. Even though they were different files, in different folders, have different durations, and different file sizes. Yet some how final cut relinked all “clip #1″files with different info than the originals. Except for the one that happened to match up.
When I go to re relink an incorrect file link to the correct clip, final cut then relinks all the files with the same name to the next one I choose. Including the one that was correct previously in a different event. So now the one that was linked to the correct “clip #1” is now the new other one I tried to link. So I can only have one “clip #1” linked correctly at a time. I have gone back and forth trying to relink all the files too many times. Even though they are in different events and I am only telling it to replace the one.
I thought final cut would only auto relink files with the same name, duration, and info? It even tells me when I try to link the file to the original video clip, it is suppose to be, it wont link to the correct file because the audio and length doesn’t match the incorrect one it auto linked incorrectly and, thinks it should be. Final cut linked all the wrong files and wont let me relink to the original correct file because the original file was in an edit and then it put the new incorrect linked video file in the edit, and now when I try to put the original one back in it won’t because it didn’t match the wrong one Final Cut put there incorrectly.
I know this is long and ridiculous and confusing but, is there a way to fix this issue? Or am I going to have to go rename each file one by one, re import all the files, then just replace them one by one. Because, that would be ridiculous and take way to long.
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Did you ever get a real response to this question or figure it out on your own? I have been having the same problem and can figure it out. Some times it is gone completely and I can’t get it back. Restarting does not help. Then today it is there but in increments of 5 seconds. Witch does not help much, I would like it to go down to the frame like it use to. There has to be a way to set and adjust this. Does anyone know how?