Keith Wright
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Hi Matt,
Yes I know it’s very odd. Everything is up to date and I’m doing exactly what people and yourself are suggesting (I may try to do a screen record and load this to YouTube so people can see exactly what’s happening). Although there maybe some issue with the clip being merged (sound was recorded separately and synced in FCP later) maybe something to do with that, but I’m clutching at straws really. I’ll keep experimenting.
You’re right, there are plenty of people using FCP, I’ve used it for nearly ten years myself, and on smaller, well managed projects it’s normally fine. But on longer projects it just becomes painfully slow and unreliable.
I guess if you like tweaking settings and having to do a fair amount of technical and media management it’s fine, but personally I like software to be transparent to my creative process. It’s personal choice at the end of the day.
Someone pointed me to this very interesting article by Eddie Hamilton (editor of Kick Ass, X-men etc.) and I can’t help but agree with most of it. https://www.eddiehamilton.co.uk/avidvsfcp.htm
Keith
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Hi Walter,
No, I only changed the name after the Log and Transfer had done importing files into FCP not during the log and transfer process. The name of the file in my capture scratch is the same as the original Canon 7D file.
Renaming clips in the FCP browser/bin (after import) does not change the name of the clip on your capture scratch.
ie. I have a clip called – Dr. Ash T3 in the browser, but if I select reveal file it is called MVI_0406 (same as 7D file)
When you create an offline project using media manager you can select whether to use the clip name or the file name for your new offline clips. I selected file name which relates to the original 7D files.
Keith
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Hi Matt,
Thanks for replying.
I’ve maintained the original file structures. Not touched a thing, just copied the folder onto my computer.
It seems I’m entering a world of pain here… despite the suggestions I have tried them all now and still it won’t see my original camera files for re-import.
I feel I have to vent here about the way FCP has performed. This is my first feature film on FCP and it has done nothing but get in the way of me telling the story (to be fair I was warned by other feature film editors) FCP really falls apart on large projects like a feature.
It literally takes six minutes to open my project and is constantly crashing for no real or fathomable reasons. Autosave constantly gets in my way and takers ages, but I need to do that in case I loose work through crashing. Moving anything around seems to create the need to re-render and ohhhh…. I could go on. I think it’s a real shame and I only hope the next version of FCP steps up it’s game considerably.
I guess I’ll do a full batch import of all the media and try to re-link that way. Unless that is I’m prompted by that horrible warning about my media in and out points being different despite the facts it’s identical. I’m sure some of you know what I’m talking about here.
Anyway I must stop grumbling and thanks for taking the time to try and help me.
Keith
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Hi Walter,
Thanks for your reply.
I didn’t rename any of the camera media or alter the file structures of the original 7D folders. I only renamed clips once they were imported into FCP, which doesn’t, as far as I know, change the original file name, only the clip name in FCP (if I reveal the file it’s still the original file name from the 7D)
I have tried creating an off-line version of the project using the media manager and I still can’t re-connect or re-import anything. It’s still looking for a volume.
I could of course re-import everything at ProRes(HQ) and then try a reconnect, but I just don’t have the disk space or time to do that, we have a lot of rushes and this seems like a very convoluted way round the problem.
Any other suggestions appreciated.
Keith
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Hi Joshua,
Yes the serial number of the board was 288300 and was returned to Jigsaw24 in the UK.
Hope this helps.
Keith