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Seems like this might be on the right track.

I gave it a try and it almost worked. Some clips appeared in the bin with proper names, but I only got 30-40 files from a sequence of hundreds. Too crushed under other deliverables (and the spontaneous death of the OS drive…) to properly investigate right now, but thanks for the advice.

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detonationfilms.com is another popular source for keyable elements, some of them for free!

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I usually keep at least two copies of everything. For a non-doc, it’s one set of organization by scene, and another set of organization kept in camera rolls by date shot, for the inevitable ‘oh, I know we grabbed a pick up of that at the end of day 5 that we didn’t have time to log’ type moments.

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Match frame returns the merged clip.

My understanding of the file naming thing was that it would be okay to change the clip names to include info (which someone on the receiving end of an OMF could use) just as long as it did NOT match the file name, because that would be important to preserve in order to connect with the .r3d files in the online stage.

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In my testing, with ‘make offline’ and ‘use existing’ flavors of media management, this method doesn’t help. I tested on an OMF sequence (I’ve kept 8 sequences of the splits used to make the OMFs in case I needed to go back to them, which now, I’d like to), so all the video components of the merged files were stripped out.

Item Properties>Format>Source lists the correct audio file, so FCP is certainly keeping the name I want associated with the given clip.

FWIW, we do have a painful workaround, which would be consulting a lined script for scene and take info, then matching that to audio clips via the spreadsheet the recordist kept, since his files aren’t named with scene and take info either.

Here’s a I’m-still-learning type question: I’ve only worked with RED previously as an offline editor. If the assistant had changed the clip names in FCP to include scene and take info, would that have disturbed the online process of matching back to RED files later? I’m guessing not, since the file names wouldn’t be changed.

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Sounds like a shape with some transparent bits. You could make it in Illustrator or After Effects, but if you wanted to stay totally in FCP, you could lay out a matte color plus a mask of some kind (shape, 8 points, etc) and either animate the mask or keep it fixed and use the motion tab to pull the whole shape across the screen.

Some local news stations just use parentheses and square brackets blown up to enormous sizes for their ‘swooshes.’

Do your own trickery on a layer below, with some kind of transition between the two shots timed to match the movement of the swoosh. You might put in a wipe, or do it manually with a crop effect (motion tab again) going left to right so that the seam is underneath the giant ‘(‘ moving across the screen.

Hope that helps.

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Hey thanks. Some days it’s just easier to ask. (I was still searching around and failing in the meantime..)

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In this case, it wasn’t possible to keep FCP open long enough to export clips, and the crashing was happening before the graphics folks started delivering stuff – I’ll watch out for the h.264 in the future though.

At long last, we managed to copy and paste audio and video tracks from the old project into a new project, just trying repeatedly until it pasted without a crash.

Thanks to all for the helpful offers and suggestions. I don’t know when the project corrupted, but that seems to have been the case.

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Thread 36 was posted immediately below the notice that it crashed in that post, I snipped out the rest. It was the AVACreateRendererDVDExt stuff. And presumably we’ll ditch the h.264 when the real stuff shows up.

For now, I’m trying to make an EDL or XML document and create an all new project from this – I can’t narrow down what version of FCP they had when the project started, whether it was 6.0.2 or 6.0.3, and as best I can tell, it’s just a corrupt project file…mutter mumble, but it IS the last day of the project…

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Digging into the error reporting, (and of course, since I was trying to crash it to get a look, things were running smooth…for a while)

Exception Type: EXC_BAD ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 36
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Thread 36 Crashed:
0 com.apple.AppleVADriver 0xec6dd42a AVACreateRendererDVDExt + 106538
1 com.apple.AppleVADriver 0xec6ee14d AVACreateRendererDVDExt + 175437
2 com.apple.AppleVADriver 0xec6c75cf AVACreateRendererDVDExt + 16847
3 com.apple.AppleVADriver 0xec6c49e4 AVACreateRendererDVDExt + 5604
4 com.apple.AppleVADriver 0xec6ca655 AVACreateRendererDVDExt + 29269
5 libSystem.B.dylib 0x91b0bc55 _pthread_start + 321
6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x91b0bb12 thread_start + 34
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We’re escalating beyond my league, probably, but google suggests that most people reporting similar problems have DVD player crashing…is MPEG2 the culprit?
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Spoke too soon, naturally. The next crash didn’t resemble the first very strongly:

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x000000000000003c
Crashed Thread: 0

Thread 0 Crashed:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0xffff07c7 __memcpy + 39
1 ….audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox 0x95b58dcf Resampler2::PushConvert(float*, float*, float*, float*, unsigned long&, unsigned long&, unsigned long, unsigned long) + 1535
2 ….audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox 0x95b53350 Resampler2Wrapper::RenderOutput(CABufferList*, unsigned long, unsigned long&) + 800
3 ….audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox 0x95ac998c BufferedAudioConverter::FillBuffer(unsigned long&, AudioBufferList&, AudioStreamPacketDescription*) + 236
4 ….audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox 0x95ac9b14 AudioConverterChain::RenderOutput(CABufferList*, unsigned long, unsigned long&, AudioStreamPacketDescription*) + 100
5 ….audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox 0x95ac998c BufferedAudioConverter::FillBuffer(unsigned long&, AudioBufferList&, AudioStreamPacketDescription*) + 236
6 ….audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox 0x95adf323 AudioConverterFillComplexBuffer + 275
7 …pple.proapps.AudioMixEngine 0x10021f1b STPreprocessor::Process(double, void const*, unsigned long&, void*, unsigned long) + 331
8 …pple.proapps.AudioMixEngine 0x10031753 STPreprocessorProcess + 305
9 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0x00324d01 AudioProcessorPullData + 339
10 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0x0025937a pKGSoundProcess(void*, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, KGAudioTrackRec*, double, double) + 344
11 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0x00224ccc TrackMixProc(long, long, KGDictInt*, void*) + 226
12 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0x00224a78 OrderedCompletionProc(long, long, KGDictInt*, void*) + 132
13 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0x00224836 ListEntryProc(long, long, KGDictInt*, void*) + 92
14 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0x0018df59 SendCompletion(void*, void*) + 47
15 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0x0017c103 pKGEachListItemDo(KGListRecord*, KGListDoAction (*)(void*, void*), void*) + 63
16 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0x0018dfb2 pKGMediaCacheBufferDone(void*, unsigned char) + 82
17 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0x00224e59 ReadDoneProc(long, long, KGDictInt*, void*) + 119
18 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0x00224836 ListEntryProc(long, long, KGDictInt*, void*) + 92
19 …alCutPro.Plugins.QTM Reader 0x0aa4f0f3 AudioExtractor::Initialize(KGQTMovieContainer*, KGAudioFormat const&, double) + 943
20 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0x002245fb FinishListItem(KGListRecord*, void*, long) + 129
21 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0x0022489f ListEntryProc(long, long, KGDictInt*, void*) + 197
22 …alCutPro.Plugins.QTM Reader 0x0aa4ee7e AudioExtractor::Initialize(KGQTMovieContainer*, KGAudioFormat const&, double) + 314
23 …ickTimeComponents.component 0x95f9384a SDH_Task + 94
24 …ickTimeComponents.component 0x95f9012a SDH_ComponentDispatch + 180
25 …ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9158a5cd CallComponentDispatch + 29
26 com.apple.QuickTime 0x93d0ab38 DataHTask + 37
27 …alCutPro.Plugins.QTM Reader 0x0aa4eddb AudioExtractor::Initialize(KGQTMovieContainer*, KGAudioFormat const&, double) + 151
28 …alCutPro.Plugins.QTM Reader 0x0aa760ed PluginMainEntry(long, long, KGDictInt*, void*) + 19689
29 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0x003234f7 AudDHTask(DHDataRec*) + 47
30 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0x0032375d AudDHDispatch(ComponentParameters*, char**) + 61
31 …ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9158a5cd CallComponentDispatch + 29
32 …ickTimeComponents.component 0x96ead769 DataHTask + 37
33 …ickTimeComponents.component 0x95fdd6c6 STMediaMoviesTask + 217
34 …ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9158ac67 CallComponentFunctionCommon + 1403
35 …ickTimeComponents.component 0x95fd9a00 STMediaComponentDispatch + 125
36 …ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9158a5cd CallComponentDispatch + 29
37 …ickTimeComponents.component 0x96ea4fef MediaMoviesTask + 61
38 …ickTimeComponents.component 0x96005f0e GenericMoviesTask + 189
39 …ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9158ac67 CallComponentFunctionCommon + 1403
40 …ickTimeComponents.component 0x9600598f GenericComponentDispatch + 170
41 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0x0031a24d AudioMediaDispatch(ComponentParameters*, char**) + 85
42 …ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9158a5cd CallComponentDispatch + 29
43 com.apple.QuickTime 0x93dad9ee MediaMoviesTask + 61
44 com.apple.QuickTime 0x93d09ae3 TaskMovie_priv + 4811
45 com.apple.QuickTime 0x93dea21e MoviesTask_priv + 100
46 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0x001ae612 DoMoviesTask(KGPlayerRec*) + 2446
47 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0x001c0787 DisplayMovie(KGPlayerRec*) + 2235
48 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0x001c455d PlayerTimer(long, long, KGDictInt*, void*) + 469
49 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0x00148368 KGTimerInvoke(__EventLoopTimer*, void*) + 206
50 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x94d67b5e CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 4494
51 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x94d67d18 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 88
52 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x9208d6a0 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 283
53 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x9208d4b9 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 374
54 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x920ec1fe _AcquireNextEvent + 58
55 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x920ea95b RunApplicationEventLoop + 207
56 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0x0014bb52 KGMainEvent(void*) + 46
57 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0x002a8dc1 main + 59
58 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0x000034c2 _start + 216
59 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0x000033e9 start + 41

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