Jeff Kirkland
Forum Replies Created
-
I’ve no idea what Larry Jordan says but I’d personally copy all the footage along with the library to a new hard drive. Test that it’s all there by disconnecting the other drives and opening the project copy with just the drive you’re going to send available. As long as the folder structure hasn’t changed too much, relinking should only take a minute or two. Obviously if anything’s missing, go find it and put it on the new drive then send it to your editor.
That’s what’s worked for me the last few years anyway…
—-
Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland -
In that case, I don’t think there’s anything you can do but suck it up and do to the long way and remember for next time that it always pays to test a workflow rather than assume something’s going to work.
I do remember being in the same situation three or four years ago and I remember I sped up the process a little by using a keyboard macro app so I just had to open each clip and hit a key to do the select and trim process. It made trimming the clips a couple of seconds each.
If I can remember what project it was and can see what I did, I’ll let you know but that’s the only solution that comes to mind.
—-
Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland -
For a scenario like this, I’d use Pluraleyes to sync the video and audio as it can create new individual clips with the updated audio. haven’t used it in a long time so I can’t remember if it can send the new clips to FCPX virtually via XML or it has to render them out but either way, it should get the job done for you.
—-
Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland -
Sync the updated audio to the clips in the browser. Use Shift F on the timeline to reveal the clip in the browser with the in/out points set. Replace the clip on the timeline.
—-
Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland -
One trick for seamless media management within Resolve is to bring all the media in first, then the XML. If all the media doesn’t have unique names then make sure to tell Resolve to keep the folder structure as it brings everything in. Once that’s done, import the XML.
To change your media storage location choose File>Library Properties then in the info panel, change the media storage option to the location of your choice. Then click on the consolidate button to move all the internally managed media to there.
—-
Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland -
Probably something in the cache has corrupted. You might try deleting any background render files and turning off background render so they don’t get recreated, then trying again. Also copying and pasting the timeline into a new project might help.
—-
Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland -
The cache is all,of the temporary files FCPX creates as you work on a project, including background rendered files, optical flow data, etc. you can clean out background rendered files via the option in the file menu. It is possible to just delete the cache in the finder but FCPX will have to recreate whatever it needs as you continue editing so there will be a bit of a performance hit the next time you open a project.
Final Cut Library Manager from Arctic Whiteness is a useful app for clearing out unwanted items in the cache. It lists what you can delete safely and shows how much space you will save by doing so, then it’s just a matter of checking a box next to the item and the app will clear that item from the cache. It does a lot of other really useful stuff too., so it’s well worth investing in.
—-
Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland -
whats actually happening in Resolve? Missing Media, Media not relinking or actual clips not showing up on the timeline? And what have you done in terms of preparing the project before sending it.
My number one thought would be that if the media is internally managed, change the project settings to externally managed and consolidate the clips to a folder outside of the library.
—-
Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland -
There’s no easy way to go backwards other than having a copy of an earlier version stored away somewhere. I have known Apple support to take pity on someone with unfixable tech issues and give them a download link for older versions. Could be wort chatting to them anyway as I’m running 10.4 on everything from a 2012 iMac to a 2013 Mac Pro and a MacBook Air and I’m not having any issues with MP4 playback – and Apple won’t be fixing your issue in 10.4.1 unless they know it exists.
Just an afterthought – have you checked that you’re running the latest version of the Pro Codecs? I had some weird issues with 10.4 and High Sierra until they were installed and for some reason they didn’t show as an update until about a week after I installed 10.4.
—-
Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland -
couldnt see your timeline but there’s no way to lock clips in place as such. You can make complex parts of the timeline into a compound clip to simplify things though.
—-
Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland