Josh Olenslager
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Hi Carlos,
you could always capture the footage by using the deck to display the date as an overlay. It’s in the deck setup menus. Granted, you won’t be able to hide it once it’s been burned into the capture. Not sure if that’s helpful for you.
Josh
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As Rob mentions, pass-through setting on Compressor will work. It’s just telling compressor to copy whatever audio is there — 2 tracks, 4 tracks, whatever — (versus converting it something else).
Josh
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how are you capturing the footage from your camera? Are you doing a straight copy, log and transfer, controllable device via FCP? Also, what format is the footage?
Josh
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What are your edit sequence settings? And what are your export settings? How are you exporting, compressor, QT conversion, QT movie, etc.?
Josh
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Aside from the illegal characters that David points out as a possible problem (and not being able to see exactly what you’re seeing; I suppose for future consideration since you’ve probably done the one by one reconnection by now), I think that it’s possibly a permissions issue, name change, or instability in the drive’s connection. I’d start there. Occasionally, I’ve just needed to clean my preferences, at others I’ve duplicated the project file itself and reconnected using the fresh copy. Sounds weird, I know, but I’ve seen stranger things; something strange just gone bad in the project that duplicating seems to be able to fix. Then just check read/write permissions on project files, copied media files, drive/folder permissions and accessibility. Then there is, of course, naming of copied files, just making sure they match. Also, if you’ve sub-clipped in the edit project making sure that you’re reconnecting the parent file–possibly what David is mentioning in the reel-ID data. Possibly why FCP isn’t giving you you’re expected clip list to reconnect with because it’s looking for the parent file. Not sure if that’s what is happening, but some ideas for possible (and hopefully not appearing) similar problems.
Hope everything worked out for you.
Josh
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Good point, John, about the playback rates. There’s a huge advantage to playing back at lower speeds whenever it doesn’t interrupt the quality. I generally use 15 fps for web delivery (although 24 for more demanding stuff), but have been able to drop to 5 on some internal review materials. It’s been a big help on our server stresses, and in general it’s been pretty easy to recognize the media that needs higher data rates and stuff that works at much lower speeds.
Josh
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While file size can turn into an issue, as Bret mentions data rate is more important in this case. Ultimately, if you’re delivering on a streaming server, or a progressive download, keeping the data rate in a range that the end viewer can utilize. For flash (not h264 with f4v extension) I shoot for a data rate between 400-700 kb/s or so. Using h264 with f4v extension I usually run the data rate a bit hotter than that. But if you can get away with something even lower, go for it. It’ll save you serious file size. Personally my motto is if you don’t need a hot data rate, don’t force a hot data rate. If you’re really concerned with file size (and also high data rates) check your keyframes. More = bigger sizes and data rates, you’ll just need to find a balance for your content.
good luck
Josh
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Select all of the clips that you’re having to reconnect and select take offline. Select them all again and select connect media, all files in relative path. Search to new location on drive. Reconnect. It should work for you.
You can always use FCP media manager to copy files to a new location. Check it out; it’s pretty slick.
Josh
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This has happened to me a couple of times. Sometimes I’ve had to reconnect from different portions of the interface. If you’re trying to connect from the timeline and it’s giving you trouble, try reconnecting from (if you’ve imported it into a bin or other area) the source clip. If that doesn’t work, try reimporting the media clip as a whole. If FCP accepts it and it doesn’t reconnect to the timeline on import, take the newly imported clip offline and then reconnect it to the new clip reference in FCP. Worse case scenario of nothing reconnecting, reimport the clip and match the edits already made in the timeline. Tedious, but I’ve had to do it a couple of times.
Maybe someone has a better idea, but the above has worked for me. Good luck!
Josh
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Glad everything worked out in the end, maybe more work than necessary, but a good result is a good result.
Josh