[Nick Meyers]

sort of yes, but really your first suggestion is the way to go.

you can NEST the fix-up shots, but i don’t think colour will see the nests as one item.
good thing about nesting is you get an instance of the nest in your browser,
so your fix shots are ready for batch exporting.

they still need to be placed back in the sequence (or a copy of it)

nick

[Nick Meyers]

yeah, good idea.
i’d always place these bakes on a new track OVER the existing work, so you don’t have to fish around in case of any revisions.

rendering as you go is a good thing, too,
like on lunch breaks, etc.

for a final render of a sequences that might still be complex, it can be a good idea to “freshen up” FCP.
close all other sequences and as many windows as possible.
quit & re-start FCP,
& quit as many other apps as possible ESPECIALLY Safari, which seems to be a huge Ram hog these days

then start your over-night render.

recently i use team viewer, a remote desktop type app to check on a long render happening on my work machine.
when it was done, i set off an export from the comfort of home.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

when you create a nest you get both a nested sequence in the timeline AND a new sequence in the browser,
so you do get what you want.

but if each sequence also needs to be in it’s own project, then establishing the correct sequence preset really is the way to go.

every new project will have the correct type of sequence, with no copy paste involved.

all of these workarounds will take longer that getting your sequence presets right.

but nesting saves a step or two either way
(if you don’t need individual projects)

cheers,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

you could start by exporting an EDL, and including clip names

then see what you can wrangle out of the EDL.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

i think most people are suggesting going beyond the Easy Setup and creating your own sequence preset
this would be done in your A/V settings (under the FCP menu)

i have another solution.

put ALL the clips into one sequence.
duplicate the sequence (not absolutely necessary, but wont hurt either)

now go through your sequence, select each clip and NEST it (optionC)

one cool thing about this is that the clip name will automatically be the nest name, saving you the chore of naming each new sequence after the clip.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

add them.

“And is it possible to change the timecome in media start-media end settings in the browser?”

No.
if you need to change TC open the clip into the viewer, and go to Modify Menu > Timecode.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

it’s pretty easy to add tags or keywords to clips in FCP.
there’s a bunch of comment fields you use.
and these are searchable.

the only issue is you are tagging the whole clip, not sections of a clip.

my preferred way of sorting & previewing clips in FCP is to have them in Sequences.
you can have the same clip in multiple sequences without any problems.

i used this method on a crowd-sourced project last year.
multiple keywords added to clips as they came in,
later on, search for those keywords and build up dedicated “theme” sequences.
then use markers in the timeline to add more information.

i’ll add that many people working on huge projects use CatDV.
it’s pretty highly regarded for the sort of thing you want to do, i believe

nick

[Nick Meyers]

hi Chris.

oh, i wouldn’t call it a “catastrophe”
reducing your timeline down to just the media you’ve used can be a pretty useful thing.
do you really want to have to carry ALL that 4×4 media?

it might be worth looking into the procedure for getting your Red media into your truncated timeline.

cheers,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

“So now I have to….what, skim through the 4hours of selects everytime I need a certain type of shot? Then match frame, bring it up in the viewer, go back to the actual sequence and drop it in?”

i work a little bit like this,
ONLY in that i like keeping my footage in timelines for skimming.

HOWEVER, my timelines are much smaller than 4hrs!

maybe you can spend some time organising that 4hr timeline, with some help from the director/producer / someone who was there.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

Yes, Media Manager truncated the clips to the used sections (maybe with handles)
so multiple instances of the same clip will get re-named.
1st instance = original name
2nd instance name-v
3rd & up start using numbers

you cant reconnect whole-file versions of the media to these clips,
so you cant just re-transcode entire Red files to PR4x4

nevertheless there must be some way to use the sequence you have, either directly in FCP (Log & Transfer), or via XML or EDL used in other Apps,
to transcode only the sections you need from your Red files.

having never worked with Red, i don’t know what that would be.

nick