[John Pale]

[CharlieX] “Just goes to prove: no matter how many years you’ve been doing this, you can still royally screw things up if your aren’t paying attention.”

Yeah. I’ve been there. Don’t beat yourself up too much.
Good Luck!

[John Pale]

I’m pretty sure once you initialize, you blow away the master directory….the data is still there but the map is gone. I’m pretty sure you need a real data recovery program at that point and not just a simple terminal command.

[John Pale]

https://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue_info.php?PHPSESSID=54dfa410517919980e44ad76cf1a0751

Do not do anything with the drive or you might reduce your chances of recovery.

[John Pale]

You might not have to do that…..

Load the a master clip of the old temp footage into the Viewer. Park it on an easy to identify frame.

Find the corresponding frame on the new footage. Note the timecode.

Back in the Viewer, select Mody/Timecode..

Change the timecode to match the new footage.

Take the master clip offline (right-click on it, then select Make Offline). For safety, you might elect to leave it on disk or move it to the trash (don’t immediately delete).

Batch re-capture the master clip, using the new footage.

[John Pale]

[Jaymags] ” For starters she doesn;t have Premiere – and unless she gets a hooky copy she’s going to waste a tom of cash getting it for one project.”

Ah I see. Nevermind.

[John Pale]

Yeah. She’s comfortable with Premiere Pro and already owns it.

[Jaymags] “She’s looking at getting FCPStudio (not 2, she doesn’t need it and at the mo cross-compatibility with 5.x is more useful to her…”

If she were enthusiastic about switching to FCP, I would say go for it…but it seems she’s pretty content with Premiere…so why switch, if she doesnt have to.

[John Pale]

You can change the H.264 export setting to single pass, by selecting the Video: Settings button in the Inspector. This will speed up the encode.

Not sure if this helps, but the latest version of Quicktime Player will display the timecode of the clip instead of the running time, if you select it in preferences. So if you can get the boys in India to read the timecode in Quicktime Player, you might be able to skip the window burn.

Export as h.264 (or whatever). Drag the new file back into FCP’s browser. Use the Modify Timecode command to manually change the start timecode to the start timecode of your clip. (you need to do this, because you lose the timecode when you export with Quicktime conversion)

If this workflow doesnt do it for you, Compressor 3 in FCS 2 can add window timecode to the files you encode. Supposedly encodes H.264 more quickly than before, too.

[John Pale]

If I were her, I would install Windows and Premiere Pro on her MacBook Pro…dual boot using Boot Camp…and finish in Premiere Pro on her MacBook Pro.

It’s never a good idea to switch editing platforms, IMHO.

[John Pale]

Xpress doesnt have secondary color correction, but you can use a plug in called ColorFix from 3prong that works great.

https://www.3prong.com/

[John Pale]

QT Conversion does not really do standards conversion. Usually results in stuttery frames, as it just does a quick and dirty frame rate change.

You can use Compressor for this, but the render takes a very very long time (days for a long piece).

Standard Conversion plug-in is available from Nattress.com. Reasonable render time, excellent quality, and inexpensive ($99).

The best quality would still be getting the footage converted on a good hardware standards converter (Alchemist). Hardware dedicated to this still does the best job of all.