John Vonmutius
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MOV is not a codec, it’s just a file container. What codec did you use when you converted the VRO?
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They’re not in-camera motion issues? Are you working with interlaced footage on a progressive sequence? Can you add some screenshots of the motion issues you’re seeing?
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Where does your media live?
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Two ways to do this, in addition to what Andrew said. First, put your filter on one clip and tweak it until it looks good. Then, with that effect selected, go to Effects > Make Favorite Effect. Now, this filter with all its settings will be in your Favorites folder in the Effects window. Select all the clips on your timeline that you want to apply the filter to, then either drag the effect from your Favorites folder, or go to Effects > Favorite > Your Effect. This will apply it to all the clips you have selected.
Now, if you want the filter to auto-update on every clip without having to re-copy and re-paste it, the only way is to nest your edited sequence in a new sequence and apply the filter to that. However, this applies the filter to EVERY clip on every track. So, for instance, if you have video clips on Track 1 that should all have the filter applied, and some graphics on Track 2 that don’t need the filter, just nest everything in Track 1 in its own sequence. (Select everything on the track, then go to Sequence > Nest Item.)
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So basically, the thumbnail isn’t showing up in the Timeline. Could be a glitch, could be because of where your media is located (is it on the boot drive), but it sounds like it’s not keeping you from working. Am I right?
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Sorry, then. FCP has an auto-detect scene change feature for DV, but I’m pretty sure it needs date/time and timecode information for that. You could try it, though. Otherwise, I think you’ll need to cut it manually. If it’s any help, though, here’s a technique I’ve used for quickly separating a clip into segments:
1. Open the clip in the Viewer.
2. Place a marker (‘M’ key or ‘`’ key) at each stop/start point
3. In the Browser, you will now see a twirl-down arrow next to the clip name. Twirl it open and you’ll see a list of all the markers you just made.
4. Select all the markers (name each take, if you want), then go to Modify > Make Subclip or press CMD+U, and each marker will be converted to a subclip with the in point being the marker itself and the out point being the next marker in the clip.After that, you can just Batch Export the subclips, check “Use Item In and Out Point” and you should have all your takes separated.
Hope this helped make your job a bit easier.
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Forgive me – I am not old school at all, so pretty much all I know is digital workflow. But it seems to me that what you’re describing is:
1. Capturing footage,
2. Editing out what you need,
3. Recapturing only those parts of the footage, and
4. Discarding the rest.In that workflow, you’re capturing the parts you need twice. Doesn’t it take the same amount of time to create subclips and use Media Manager (deleting unused media and adding a couple seconds of handles) as it would to make new, smaller master clips and recapture those segments?
Coming from a digital workflow myself, I guess I’m confused as to why you’d want to go back to the tape again when you could just Batch Export or Media Manage straight from the digital files.
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You could probably make a copy of the FCP preferences, and place it in the subfolder of the project. However, each time you wanted to switch, you’d have to quit FCP, copy the appropriate prefs file to the preferences folder, then open FCP again. Is this any eaiser than what you were doing?
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What format is the footage in? Tapeless? Tape? How did you import it?
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I think to do that you’ll have to choose to align the clips to the audio files timecode, since I’m assuming not all the video clips span the length of the song.
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