[Steven Gonzales]

Will the timecode of your new telecine match the timecode of your earlier telecine?

If not, won’t you have to recut based on the burned in keycode?

Substituting HD footage for lower res usually means both share the same timecode, and were made at the same time, or the low res was dubbed from the HD with matching timecode.

[Steven Gonzales]

I worked on a movie that was processed at Cinefilm, Atlanta, and the telecine was to HDCAM. Then the HDCAM was converted to Apple ProRes files for editing (through an AJA Kona card I presume). Then the film edited with ProRes for a nice image, and after editing will recapture from HDCAM, then finish color corrections, titles and output.

[Steven Gonzales]

The best way to approach 35mm is to decide how you will finish, and work your way backwards.

What will you deliver (both sound and picture)? That will help you decide the workflow.

It used to be that there was essentially one workflow for film, but now there are hundreds of possibilities, so a definitive answer depends on the end product.

[Steven Gonzales]

Take a deep breath, it’s merely a computer application with options you have not yet learned, but will soon.

Try window menu — arrange — standard. Does this bring windows to a more familiar size?

[Steven Gonzales]

Fat32 volumes have a file size limit.

Try saving to a drive formatted for Macintosh, and you should be okay.

[Steven Gonzales]

Select the drive that you are sending the file to in the finder. Press command-i or control-click and “get info”.

What is the format of the drive?

[Steven Gonzales]

Each project had a browser window. If you have more than one project open, you can have a tab for each project, but you cannot put one project’s browser window inside another project’s browser window.

The best you can do with separate projects is separate tabs.

[Steven Gonzales]

Command key and 1(number one) will toggle the file browser in Motion.

This is Appendix A of the User Manual, keyboard shortcuts, which is under the Help menu.

Also, there’s a Motion forum here at Creativecow, which would be the correct place to post this issue.

[Steven Gonzales]

A lot depends on what type of work you are doing, and what type of media you are working with.

Can you give a bit more detail about what’s coming in to your system, and what format you are finishing in (what’s going out)?

[Steven Gonzales]

Here’s how I would fix that (there may be an easier way):

Export batch list from the bin with clips you want to rename.

Open that batch list in Excel.

Insert two new column next to the name column (if name is column A, then the new empty columns are column B and C).

I assume that you have no more than 999 clips named “clip-NNN”.

Put this formula in cell B2 — “=LEFT(A2, 5) & REPT(0, 8-LEN(A2)) & RIGHT(A2, LEN(A2)-5)”

This takes the left 5 characters of A2, then repeats zero for the correct number of places, then adds the clips number back in, all through formulas and text concatenation.

Copy and paste that forumla all the way down column B. Then copy column B, paste special to column C, with “paste values”. Add the correct column name (“Name”) back in Column C to match the column name in Column A.

Now delete columns A and B, save, and export as tab delimited text.

Import this as a batch list to Final Cut.

Reconnect to the new clip names.