[Steve Knattress]

In one of the fcp facilities I work in each project is allocated its own user name/password.

This is to aid media management for them, but also means that every project has its own preferences, desk top etc.

Steve

[Steve Knattress]

You need to edit just the required footage into a new sequence, then consolidate the resulting sequence. (just keep the bits of the clip you want by making new clips)
You do have a backup?
As you originally recorded directly onto your drives. I hope you also made a tape backup at the same time! If not I’d suggest backing up your media to a backup tape/disk first.

I would edit the whole original master clip onto the timeline
(It is easier to zoom into the footage. Long clips in the viewer are often difficult to navigate.)

Scan the first footage you want to keep then mark an in, use the razor blade tool, or V with the tracks selected.
Then moved onto the next footage required and then mark an out, or cut again.
Depending on what you did above you can delete the unwanted clip or delete between in and out X, if you go wrong Z is your friend.
Continue down your time line saving S from time to time.
Eventually you will end up with your shorter edited video.
You can then further tweak the joins and re-edit until happy.

The resulting sequence will still reference the SAME one original Master clip.

Please be careful with the following which you undertake at your own risk.
(You have a back up of your data?)

To just keep the required media and delete that unwanted, select your sequence in the browser then go into the media manager and COPY the media making sure that “include master clip outside selection” is DE-selected.
(Handles can be added which give a small amount of media before and after your selected ins in case you want to do a slight tweak in future.)
The top of the tool says what it is doing. If you do not understand please research further.
The green bars at the top will also show you want saving in storage you are making.
Select a destination and new sequence. (Ideally a different drive, then you can remove the original drive and make sure the new sequence and copied media is OK )

Always COPY your media (you will require even more storage) you CAN NOT get it back if you delete it.
There is good reason why it is sometimes called the media mangler.
There are some good video tutorials on the creative cow site on the media manager.

Good Luck
Steve

[Steve Knattress]

I have just tried something similar with FCP7

I have some longish cycle headcam footage files which I went through marking certain instances, as marker 1,2,3 etc.

I left the marker default names as they were and placed a note on the marker, this appears as master comment 1 in the browser within each clip

I then added other notes such as location, in master comments ,2,3,4 to the browser list markers
The last comment added to a marker for a certain clip in the browser is also inserted in the same comment for that clip. (ie it changes as comments are added to the markers.)

If I do a “next find” within master comment 1 It will find and highlight the next instance of the search criteria in the browser.
(the name remains as MC1,2,3,4 in the find box although I have re-named them in the browser list headings. What is the difference with comment A and B which can also be re-named?)

However “find all” results in “no matching items” from the maker comment columns as suggested above.

Steve

[Steve Knattress]

How did you copy?

I think I remember having problems when I drag and dropped between projects.

Cut and paste seemed to work better if I remember correctly.

Steve

[Steve Knattress]

I had a lot of stability problems when I had large project size >250Mb.

This was made up of several multicam (x9) rushes edited into long sequences,plus edit backup copies of each ) which were then edited into another sequence for an overall highlights show.

One thing I found when slimming the projects down was that doing a “save as” then deleting bins, sequences etc does not reduce the project size much. ( undo buffers?)

I found that it was best to start a new empty project and just copy across the sequences, bins that you need.

Good Luck Steve

[Steve Knattress]

So the way to “clean” a project and reduce its size is NOT to “save as” then delete unwanted clips and sequences in the “new” project.

Is there any other way of reducing a projects size other than copy/paste into a brand new project?

Steve

[Steve Knattress]

Sorry that answer came in another forum:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1998247&tstart=0

You may be also interested in another thread I took part in

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1035118#1035118

Steve

[Steve Knattress]

Now, if you want to have true shared storage, all you need is a dedicated MAC Pro, and about $2000 in special ethernet equipment, and THAT IS ALL. Pretty amazing – huh ?

Hi Bob,
thanks for the time you spend on this forum,
your replies are helping me try and sort out problems I may incur trying to network FCP’s in a “fly-away” edit operation.
I have used my macbook pro to do some standalone editing within the tape suite.

We are looking at up to 3 FCP’s networked for ingest/edit/vo and playout for a same day sports broadcast. (with a perhaps graphics station connected to drop graphics into the storage)
In the past we have edited on a 3 machine tape suite, plus another digi for vo/playout. (You can imagine how the excess baggage mounts up!) The programmes are SD but I assume that at some time they will go compressed HD ( XDcam?)

We should like to reduce the weight and amount of equipment we are using.
From other threads I have learned that at the least we should need a mac pro with raid storage (or xserve) as the video server to give enough bandwidth to the 2 or 3 laptop FCP edit machines.

If I am only connecting 3 machines to the server, do I really need to combine the 4 port ethernet card outputs to a managed ethernet switch? Is there any problem in just connecting each machine to a port and giving each the 1Ghz bandwidth, and connecting using AFP?

At a push CAN the server mac pro be used for viewing/ ingesting or does it HAVE to be left alone?

Thanks in advance
Steve

[Steve Knattress]

Hi All

I have recently started reading the articles and threads on the “low cost” SAN

I am researching for a system that we can use as a flyaway edit, to reduce excess baggage, the idea is to ingest/edit/dub on 3ish FCP (laptop) computers for tx the same day. (with another computer providing graphic files. (SD XDcam footage (?) although I assume that eventually the programme will go HD)

Is there any way that a non-desk top computer (ie smaller weight and size than a mac pro) could be used as a server, to supply the 3 workstations. ( Only one possibly would be editing all of the time, one ingesting/viewing, and one doing a final voice over dub and playout.)

Any suggestions for shared storage? ( I already have a Proavio 1.5TB raid 5, (Esata+FW800+USB2) which would provide enough storage, and a 17″ MacBook Pro (usually with a smaller 1TB GRaid2, I have used for programmes with a more relaxed tx.)

Thanks Steve

[Steve Knattress]

I have no direct experience of using xdcam ex,

but I did recently edit multi-clip on my laptop MacBook pro on location with 9 cameras using DVcam (dv25) from XDcam optical discs using the Sony transfer software.

I used a G-raid 1TB FW800 drive, which was fast enough for 9 cameras (plus a couple spare!)
I’d try it and see with EX as 9@25 isn’t too different to 5@35 ! ( does one dv the other mpeg make a difference)

The ingest took for ages (at approx 2.5x RT speed)

I did ultimately have problems flakey fcp due to “excessive” project size, when using nested multiclip sequences.
Keep your project lean.

The Sony software does import low res video AND audio proxies (mpeg4) , which could be converted to an edit format, then after edit the project batch digitised.

Search this forum for Xdcam and see peoples suggestions when I asked similar questions re XDcam
There was one reply with a suggestion for software to help with a hi-res conform.

Steve