Steve Braker
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Steve, you can do either of the steps outlined above, then drag those clips from the timeline back to the Browser. I would put them in a new bin and keep the originals around in an archive bin.
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Well, hopefully you haven’t emptied the trash. Find the relevant files in the trash and put them back where they came from?
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Kathryn, your confidence in that project transport makes me nervous for you. If you really are just doing a layoff, I still think you’re much safer (and cheaper) bringing a QT of the full finished project – at least in addition to and as backup to bringing the project stuff. There are a lot of things that can go wrong and need trouble shooting when tranporting a project to a new place. It may work fine right off and it may not. Good luck with it.
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More: forgot something. It will make the batch list for your whole project. So either just do the above and then delete the irelevant bins from the list, or make the bin in a new project.
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create a new bin
copy all the sequence clips to it
export/batch listOpen that in Excel or the like and you can sort by reel number and then in point.
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Or set “mirror” playback and “frame offset” in wildly different places in Preferences – sorry I can’t look now.
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If you save it out as an uncompressed sequence it will be everything – what you see is what you get, every frame. That’s what I would assume you need to go to the post house unless they are also doing some work on it. Otherwise you’re likely to have missing media hassles, etcetera, and pay for edit time rather than just the layoff.
If you do need everything then I’d suggest having Media Manager make a copy of the project to the drive you’ll be taking in. Make sure you test that project out throughly.
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As I was just reminded in another thread, you might want to right-click the clip in the timeline and do “Remove Attributes. Check the any video attributes available and submit. That will remove any automatic muddling FCP may have done.
Another thing that occurred to me is that if this is a sample clip, it may have some “protection” on it. That could be in the form of an alpha channel… I think… maybe?
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You might want to look harder at the FireStore info. As far as I know all their products can be set to save as Quicktime, AVI, or Raw DV – and maybe one or two more. The FS-3 (and the version for the JVC cams) is the last model that will record to an external drive of your choice – a swift marketing decision on the part of Focus.
Works great for me. You can also use the FS-3 / JVC version to record from anything else, though it would get a little bulky without a big camera to balance it. Tape is the backup, and it has been needed a few times simply because the poorly anchored FW cable comes out. Time for some gaffer’s tape there.
One thing I wish FireStore would do is either default or allow setting to dual mono tracks. As it is everything comes into FCP tagged as stereo and it’s just a pain getting tracks separated again from there on.
But it’s worth it so far.
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I think you still should check the motion tab settings for motion, crop, and distort to see if FCP has done some kind of automatic “helping”. Do this from the Browser and then also from the Timeline and see if there’s a difference.