[Nick Meyers]

ah yes, i see, makes sense
I’ve got increasing collection of those sorts of things myself…
but not 16TB worth!

thanks,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

[Shane Ross] “That, and it connects to a 16TB Raid that won’t connect to a new machine..”

intersting, Shane…
so do you use the MacPro as a server of sorts?
I’m thinking of something similar myself

nick

[Nick Meyers]

[Kent Slavuta] “If I understand correctly, I have two options there:
(1) copy all of the contents
(2) clone it … that would make a bootable replica of my internal Mac drive
Is this about right? “

yep ☺

[Kent Slavuta] “As for backing up the whole of my old Mac, I actually need to do it anyways, as I intend to dispose of it presto pronto and might as well see if someone wants to buy it.”

so how will you open your FCP6 projects?

nick

[Nick Meyers]

hi Kent,

[Kent Slavuta] “I came across this one video about saving/backing up a project in FCP X”

forget about that for now. FCP X is a different app altogether, with very different workflows.
what you read has no bearing on what you want to do in FCP “classic”

[Kent Slavuta] “If I back up the entire contents of my internal Mac hard drive to an external drive … [will] all the old FCP projects … open and be accessible??”

pretty much yes.
is this an internal Media drive, separate to the System drive?
if so then yes, indeed.
the trick is to give your new hard drive the exact same name as the original.
this will save you hang to do a lot of re-connecting, as FCP will just see it as the same drive.

if it’s just the system drive, then even that should work, but you’ll have a lot of stuff on there you don’t really need ☺

although if you make a proper clone, (using Super-Duper, or Carbon Copy Cloner) then you’d be well protected if you ever update your Mac Pro to a more modern OS.

cheers,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

hi Kent

there are two approaches.

1. locate the relevant media and copy it to the back up drive manually, along with the project files.
open the copy of the project file and reconnect to the media in it’s new location.

PRO: you keep any file organisation you have in place, (Music folders, FX folders, etc. etc. all maintained
CON: you have to know where those folders are !
but FCP can show you if you use the SOURCE Column in the browser

2. use FCP’s Media Manager

PRO: do it in one go from within FCP
CON: all your media will be jumbled together in one place after the move.
it won’t bring across any media that may be related, but isn’t in the project.

to do it via the media manger
open the project,
select all
File Menu > Media Manager

use COPY
DONT delete unused
DO create a new project

you might as well chose to include render files,
although typically is wasn’t particularly successful.
it night not work, but it won’t hurt to try.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

thanks Michael,
yes that’s exactly what I want to do.
very ingenious !

i did my exports for this round, but for the next round, i’ll use this technique. i imagine it might be faster.

i’m now having a problem with the timecode not showing any info, just numbers
so instead of SRC TC: 01:00:00:00
i just get 01:00:0:00

it could be a simple setting or something I’ve pressed by accident.
have you encountered this before?

cheers,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

thanks, Glenn.

that gives the same result as Output Blanking in that it’s a hard matte, or in this case an actual crop.
we need a semi-transparent letterbox, so the sound editors can see the original burn-ins underneath:

I’m getting a weird thing were the source timecode burn-in displays differently on different clips
compare the image above with the following one:

any idea what’s causing that?

[Nick Meyers]

[Glenn Sakatch] “is there a reason you aren’t just using resolves burn in tool for all of this?”

I’m new to this ☺

LETTERBOX
[Glenn Sakatch] “Adding a png keyable item just to add a box seems like a waste of processor power to me, especially when the burn in tool allows quite a bit of flexabilty with these items.”

from what i read in the manual this is done via output blanking, and there is no control over the opacity.
looking again i see i can add the png as a logo in the burn section and adjust opacity.
same amount of processor power?
uh, oh… we want the burn-ins to sit within the letterbox area,
BUT the letterbox as logo sits on top of the clip name & timecode, reducing their visibility

TARGET SOURCE OF BURN
[Glenn Sakatch] “If you are getting timecode from the wrong track, or the name from the wrong track, then you probably need to go to the clip tab within the burn tool, select the proper clip”

how? i can’t see any controls for this in the burn tool
ah, i see… select the clip in the timeline on the colour page (so it’s red), very good.

thanks for that, i couldn’t figure out the clip burn-ins.

DELIVER
[Glenn Sakatch] “As for your delivery problem, are you set to deliver individual items, or “single clip”. That will affect what is or isn’t seen on output.”

thanks , Glenn

nick

[Nick Meyers]

QT Change from Video Toolshed
QT Edit from Digital Rebellion

nick

[Nick Meyers]

FCP File Menu > Export > EDL
🙂