[Lauren Petty]

Thanks for the ideas – I already did audio mixdown and it was still the same story.

I guess I will have to export in stages – QT first and then compressor…

[Lauren Petty]

Zak – thanks for posting the article. It was very helpful and a clear breakdown of the issues.

Ultimately, I am more comfortable going Mac Pro – it would be such an easy decision if money were not an issue…

[Lauren Petty]

Thanks all for the feedback. All good considerations and things I had been thinking about – Shane, you hit on just about every one of my concerns…

I guess I just need to think it through – and make a wild guess about what my future will look like. The IMac is fine today but I very well might hit a wall in a year.

[Lauren Petty]

My problem is that the the audio signal – coming out through RCA – is not registering in FCP. For years, I have been easily able to capture from an analog source via the Canopus. The signal is running through – FCP recognizes the DV device and I can view the video externally on a monitor – but I can’t get FCP to recognize the sound.

I also tried it with a camera – the sound could be heard in the camera speaker – but again not in FCP. I could capture from a tape off the camera but could not use it to pass a signal through (which has also worked in the past).

[Lauren Petty]

Sadly (and embarrassingly…) I am still on version 5 in my own studio (I am a starving artist type and can’t afford to upgrade…). But, I do work on 6 on jobs and don’t know that it is different on this front.

I know media manager is supposed to do this – that is why I tried it first – but as I said, it does not seem to give me just the trimmed shots. This edit is straight cuts only – each camera master shot is 15min but I probably use only 1-4min per camera in the final edit.

In Media Manager I chose:
‘Create Offline’
‘Delete unused media’ with one second handles (and deselected ‘include master clips outside selection’)

But, I have tried it many times and with different combinations of options. I have tried it from the Timeline window and from the Browser. What I am doing wrong? Any thoughts…

Or any other thoughts on the original EDL question as that method is working for what I need – but I still cannot import the last one.

Thanks!

[Lauren Petty]

Thanks for the response. Media Manager and I have never gotten along and it still is not working for me now (and I had tried it before the EDL method…).

If I try to process it again – it sends out an edit but wants me to digitize 43 gigs for a 15 min. sequence. It does not seem to be trimming – even when I check the “delete unused”. Hmmm…

[Lauren Petty]

Thanks for the thoughts – but this does not help.

I am using the EDLs in order to create trimmed batch lists of the edits. I was nearly done – just color correcting – and so don’t need to re-digitize the entire seven hours of material (which was nearly 90gb) – I only want to digitize the 15-ish gigs that represent the final edit.

This is the way I know to create a trim from the sequence for recapture. Is there another way? (media manager does not give me quite what I need).