Larry Asbell
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Many a time I’ve wished that FCP didn’t work the way it does. Such as when I’ve wanted to put different names on sequence clips that all come from the same source clip.
In any case, this behavior is fundamental to the architecture of the editing app. Even if they wanted to, I suspect a software engineer couldn’t change the design of these linkages without a complete rebuild of the app. from the ground up.
Which isn’t to say that one couldn’t create a function for finding all occurrences of a clip in a sequence and replacing the name.
You do know that as of now in PrPro you can right click on clip in the timeline and select Rename? It’s far from what you are wishing for but it may get you part of the way there.
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Dave –
In no way did I mean that there’s anything wrong with twirling down folders. Only that in the moment of your test when you’re trying to limit what the media browser sees, it might help. But now that I try it here I see that in any case the Media Browser always re-opens with nothing twirled down.
The next thing I’d test for is if there are stored settings or cache files that PPr accesses at that time that are corrupt. Go into a different user on your Mac, open Premiere there, create a new project and try to Media Browse that drive. If this works, you’ll know you’ve got some caches or preferences in your user that you’ve got to trash.
The only other thing that I can think of is to start with a fresh initialized drive and copy over the contents of the Storage drive little by little, trying Media Browser between each batch.
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I think what Angelo Lorenzo was getting at when he suggested to:
“‘sanitize’ the drive by putting any files that are top level into a folder”
is that when you attempt to access the drive, the system has to look at every file on the root level of the drive in order to show you a directory of its content. In your case it’s failing to do that, maybe because of a problem file at the top level of the directory. So try making its job real easy by making a new folder and putting in it all the individual files on the top level of the drive. I guess you should also check that you don’t have any “twirled down” folders and that your finder view is in list, not column view.
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If there are any punctuation characters in the drive name or in the top level file names, try eliminating them. It’s hard to get a definitive list of the illegal ones and some are OK in one OS or app and not in another. But certainly eliminate these:
/ : * ? ” < > |
I think these may be a problem in some cases:
, ! { } [ ] % @ # $
also avoid long file names, not sure of the number of characters, maybe around 30.
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How about ridding your project of the problem clip, i.e. remove all clips of it and remove it from all sequences. Then after checking that your project is stable, reimport the clip and add it back to the sequence. If that fails, convert the clip to another codec. Not that there is anything wrong with the codec but the conversion might remove a corruption.
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Isn’t the correct way to import tapeless media is to use Premiere’s Media Browser rather that the Import dialog?
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Shoot guy against burned out white background (sky, paper, cyc), layer guy over images and set transfer mode of top layer to “Screen” or “Add.”
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Does anyone else feel that the new nudge track up and down keystroke moves audio in the opposite direction as you’d want? It seems to me that when you nudge video from V1 to V2 that Audio should move from A1 to A2. Currently when you nudge video to a higher number track, the audio goes to a lower numbered track.
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Have you tried the x264 codec?
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[Shane Ross] ” When to use AMA: When dealing with camera masters. Canon DSLR, AVCHD, P2, XDCAM, RED…
When to use IMPORT: When you have stand alone Quicktime files. Graphics with alphas.”
And when you have lengthy QT files from which you’ll be using short segments, AMA is good?