[Thomas Piper]

Thanks Dave. Is there a technique you use if you’re copying and pasting multiple clips at the same time? What I’d like to be able to do is take an entire section of one sequence and copy it into another sequence. But when I do so, none of the keyframed effects copy over with the clips. I’m stuck having to add them back individually (I copy and paste attributes for each clip, but your method would work for it too).

thanks again
Tom

[Thomas Piper]

I never did find a solution to the problem. I have instead instituted a naming system for all my projects now so that every clip name includes the reel number and a sequential counter (plus other descriptors). That way I can tell just by the name of the clip which reel it comes from and where on that reel it is located. That’s at least solved my problem of needing to matchback to the browser to find other nearby clips from the same reel, for example.

Otherwise, I have resigned myself to Final Cut’s useless media management. Shame Apple has never cared enough to fix it.

[Thomas Piper]

Thanks again, Daniel. I did do some reading through all the cow posts that I could find and I think I’ve got a much better handle on how and why they work. For instance, I understand now that when resizing from HD to SD there is necessarily deinterlacing involved. One poster even suggested doing a discreet turn in Compressor for each step (deinterlacing, then resizing). Don’t know if that’s overkill or not… I just used frame controls in one compression (from ProRes QT direct to MPEG2) this time. I’ll check the results around lunchtime. I also tried going from ProRes QT to SD 8bit Uncompressed and then from the SD 8bit mov to MPEG2. That actually looked pretty good. But I’ll compare with the frame controls version today (I suppose I could’ve/should’ve used frame controls for the ProRes to SD Uncompressed resizing…)

As for Toast, it’s just a holdover from way back when Build & Burn in the first DVDSP was less than reliable for playback (back when burned DVDs and DVD players didn’t all get along so well) – habit is all…

[Thomas Piper]

Thanks for the reply, Daniel. You’ve guessed correct. I’ve always just let Compressor do it’s thing based on the preset DVD settings…
How do you recommend using the frame controls to do the scaling and deinterlacing… (although isn’t the DVD standard interlaced? If you’re not purposely making a 24p DVD?)

-Tom

[Thomas Piper]

Jerry-

I think you misunderstood the problem I’m having. I haven’t lost the connection to the media, it’s just that FCP no longer recognizes that a clip in the timeline comes from a specific clip in the browser, even though the clip in the browser (which should in fact be the master clip for the corresponding excerpt in the timeline) does exist. I think in the Final Cut Pro lexicon, it no longer recognizes that the clip in the timeline is an affiliate of the clip in the browser.

Further complicating my ability to discern what’s happened, it turns out that not every clip in everyone one of my sequences has suffered this de-affiliation. Some sequences match back fine still.

Anyhow, if anyone has a way to “re-affiliate” in batches – hours of my life will be saved…