[Nick Meyers]

hi travis,

I’m pretty sure i know the effect you’re after,
but i can’t remember seeing any plugins for FCP that could do that.
possibly one of the German companies: CHV or CGM, had something along these lines.
its definitely a 3rd party thing – nothing in FCP itself would do it i reckon.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

hi Mark

actually yes, it’s very easy to remove one filter from a clip.
open the clip to the viewer,
go to the filters tab,
select the one you don’t want, and hit Delete.

Michael is saying it’s not possible to do this en-masse without using XML editing tools,
which is true, but there are ways to make it simpler.

1. with the viewer selected, you can hit the down button, and you’ll jump to the next clip is in the timeline, but remain in the viewer
the viewer will remain on whatever tab is selected, making you can jump from one clips’ filter tab to the next,
you’d still have to select the filter you don’t want and hit delete,
but you don’t have to double click each clip into the viewer.

2. if all your filters have the same settings across all the clips,
you could open the first clip, delete the unwanted filter,
copy that clip in the timeline,
select all other clips the timeline, remove all filters,
and then Paste Attributes > Filters.

hope that gives you some ideas.

cheers,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

hi Michael.

yes, reconnecting in FCP can be dicey ☹

have you verified the files, to see if they are OK?
try opening them in Quicktime?
not all, but some.
or make a new FCP project, and bring in a folder of files, (or all of them)
see how FCP reacts, if it likes the files or not,
close and open that new project, see what happens.

[Michael Crochetiere] “(1) File attribute mismatch (box 1attached). I try again and it goes through (no conflicts). I reconnect the files.”

that’s not necessarily such a serious error. they try again and it works thing is weird.
having to reconvert all over is terrible tho.

[Michael Crochetiere] “(box 3). I barely recognize the names, but they have nothing to do with the few files I’ve connected as far as I can tell). “

this warning is generally related to number of TRACKS.
i see tat file is a PSD, so the warning could be about the number of LAYERS
maybe you have a more than one version of the same PSDS?

this is a bad waning, and in my experience I’ve just had to over-cut those files again.
(i hate making files in the timeline independant, it means i can’t match back to the browser, which is important to me).

good news is with a fair bit of work you may yet get your project up and running,
but it will take some patience, and some sweat.
bad news is there aren’t that many FCP experts around theses days,
and even when there were there weren’t too many people with the subtle expertise to wrangle this.

but it’s not impossible !

(i’d volunteer, but I’m in Australia)

good luck,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

ok good luck Michael.

if it comes to it,
I’ve got macros for the renaming step i talked about, and QuicKeys has a 30 day free trial,
so i can help you out, if needed.

cheers,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

FCP primarily looks to file names to reconnect
after that if tc, reel, duration, or number of tracks don’t match you get a warning , but have the option of trying to reconnect.

if all your file names have changed thats a bit of a problem!

if you’ve managed to retain tc and reel# you could things semi-manualy, but it would take some time & effort.

there is however an app from Video Toolshed called FCP Reconnect that will look beyond the file name and reconnect based on reel# and tc.

there’s a god chance your audio files will have not very useful tc & reel#
they probably have no reel# and al have tc starting at zero,
so you my have to approach those manually
and number of tracks and duration are your only bet

there IS a file-size column in FCP,
BUT
once a file is offline, I’m pretty sure the file-size reads as zero, or rather has no value,
so duration is the go.

here’s what i would do (be aware I’m very patient and persistent and ok spending a lot of time fixing problems !)

first locate all your audio only clips in your project / projects
use the browser search for this
oops- are al your clips i note browser? if some are in the timeline only, that could be a problem,
you might have to “create Master clip” to find them.

search – all projects if more than one project is involved
type contains clip
omit tracks contains V

this should bring up all your audio only clips.
copy them all into a new project

maybe get rid of any clips that DO have reel# & TC, as FCP reconnect can solve those.
so you’re just left w your SXF & music

maybe separate the files with ONE track only from the stereo files into separate bins

NEXT
bring in the audio only files from the finder
get rid of any with Reel#s and tc, and similarly separate into one-track ad stereo

so you should have 4 bins:
offline mono
offline stereo
on-line mono
on-line stereo

do your offline and online bins contain the same number of clips?
maybe you have duplicates in your offline clips
they’d still have their names so that’d be easy enough to spot

now you’d sort your clips by duration (maybe longest to shortest)
i’d do the mono files first as there’s probably less of them

sorted by duration bring all the on-line mono clips into new timeline
do the same for the off-line clips, layering them on top of the on-line ones

theres probably be a bit of shuffling to get them sorted
there will be many that have the same duration, but you’ll have offline ones with descriptive names,
and online ons that you can hear, so after some time you should be able to line them all up.

once you’re confidant you’ve got good matches, you’d go thru and copy the names of the offline clips to the on-line clips
i’d use a macro for this (i use QuickKeys for this sort of this al the time os it;s not big deal t me) Keyboard Maestro is a more modern one that may have less issues than hate rather old QuickKeys.

once you’ve done that, go to the bin that contains the newly re-names mono clips,
and choose Modify Menu > Rename > File to match Clip.

next do the same for the stereo clips – there’s probably more s it will take longer

once you’re done you will have sorted all the clips and renamed those uselessly named files of yours,
and in your original projects you should be able to reconnect.

it could be that you can’t reliably tel with some of the clips/ files which ones are which,
in those instance i guess i would leave them out of the first round of renaming and deal with them on a more individual basis.

this will all take some time, and you might need to master some new skills ( the macro app)
but hopefully I’ve given you some ideas.
(Like you can see how it would be pretty easy to deal with the files that DO have reel# and TC)

all the best,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

indeed he did! i can’t beat that ☺
you’re lucky you got to meet him.

[Nick Meyers]

thanks Michael, i think i was the last one on a Steenbeck too!
(in Sydney at least)

[Nick Meyers]

oops sorry, that should be

nickm (at) bigpond (dot) net (dot) au

so “net” not “new”

n

[Nick Meyers]

sorry to the OP for going off-topic…

[Robert Withers] “shots from mini-DV tapes came into my FCP long ago from stereo audio tracks” …. “I don’t know how folks edit double mono tracks like this in FCP7 — do you have to keep duplicating levels and effects for each?”

when you capture in FCP you tell it how you want the two audio tracks formatted: stereo or dual mono. it;s a button in the capture window.

if you inadvertently capture as dual mono, it’s relatively easy to switch it back to stereo in FCP, and pan it to the centre,
then your volume graphing is much simpler.
multipack audio is a bit of a pain as yes, you do have to copy / paste.

cheers,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

hi Jon,

you can mail your project to me at
nickm (at) bigpond (dot) new (dot) au.

I’m right now (goofing off from) cutting a feature on FCP7!
with another one later in the year a possibility
not sure how long i can keep it going!

hardware is a 2015 iMac w Yosemite as OS.
we burnt a DVD today too! – they want it for playback in a scene. don’t ask me why, but thats what they want.

my old 2011 iMac died just before the shoot, so i got a second 2015 retina refurb for my assistant.
my 2008 MacPro is dead ☹
but my 2012 Macbook Pro is holding on – and used for rushes screenings!