Ron James
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[Herb Sevush] “Enabling “create new clip on break” works sometimes, crashes other times and is totally ignored still other times. I”
So how come, then, this has NEVER EVER happened to me? After 200+ hours using this feature, why haven’t I had one crash or any other kind of problem???
I’ve also used Media Manager countless times, to move sequences and projects to other machines, to consolidate, WITHOUT ONE SINGLE PROBLEM.
What’s my secret, then? Am I just lucky? Nope. I’ve never won the lottery and if there’s ever any room for something to go wrong, it will for me. But I don’t leave any room for anything to go wrong.
If you’re having these problems, I suggest:
1) you reinstall your system and FCP from scratch
2) take more time to understand FCP and the way it likes to do things
3) read the manual before using Media Manager
4) maintain your system regularly
5) go back to your software that works better FOR YOU.
Nobody will ever convince me of what you’re saying and the reason is simple: it’s worked for me time and time again.
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FCP handles TC breaks wonderfully. Problem is, hardly anyone knows it does! Give it a try and see for yourself. I think it got a lot better when multiclip support came along, so it could deal with TC breaks.
As for putting it all into a single clip, that would be nice as an option, I guess, but I personally can’t stand scrubbing through mammoth clips.
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Wait it out. Let it spin and spin and pray it stops. I’m not sure what you’re worried about, exactly, b/c it sounds like nothing is logged anyway, so the only thing you’ll corrupt is the last file that’s being captured, right?
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“my client decided to change the “On Timecode Break” setting to “Warn After Capture”. ”
He should’ve had it set to “make new clip” and there’d be no problem (as long as those mixed day tapes are labelled as different reels so the next person knows that the TC will jump from a later time to an earlier time).
It’s sad, but a lot of FCP “pro” editors I’ve met don’t really know the program. Some of them have come from Avid and think they can just figure out as they go and others just started calling themselves editors after playing around with FCP for a couple days.
It’s amazing how much money (and how many hours) could be saved by a day or two of pro training!
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[Danrnw] “As someone mentioned above, if you aren’t doing the offline/online thing,
then yes, FCP is a breeze.”God I hate these threads! We’re such a bunch of spoiled whiners these days. Man, I wake up everyday amazed at what I can do on my desktop computer, with Final Cut Studio in particular.
The majority of my work is offline to online, usually with more than 100 hours of material. I don’t think that’s ever a “breeze,” but I can do it with a minimum of problems. That’s because I almost know FCP inside and out. I’m also hired now and again to come into a project that’s been mangled by people who *don’t* know FCP. They try to use FCP like Avid and realize, when it’s too late, that FCP is *not* Avid.
My point is that FCP gets a bad rap mostly because of user-error/ignorance.
That’s just my opinion, though.
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Kevin, I think it’s the timecode that needs to be altered. That only affects content, doesn’t it?
I was thinking, though, if the timecode offset is constant, couldn’t the online facility simply create an offset before recapturing?
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…then it’s time to cry.
I guess this is why you calibrate *before* capturing. :O(
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How many source clips? You’d need to modify the TC in the source, not every edit. If I’m not mistaken, this should automatically update every edit in your timeline as long as you haven’t broken the Master/Affiliate relationship. I wonder if there’s a slick way, though, to do a global offset. I don’t think…
The easy way to do it in Modify Timecode, though, is to just hit + or – however many frames, and enter, and FCP will do the math for you, so depending on how many source clips you have, this could at least speed up the process.
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Yep, they’ll stay the same. You’re just editing the metadata, I believe.
Just highlight all the clips (in the browser) that will be one particular angle and then right-click in the angle column and choose the right one. You’ll have to enter the angle on one of the clips first, though, before it shows up in your right-click drop down menu. Then, you can highlight the rest of the clips that share the same angle and right-click to change them all, instead of typing each one manually.