[Thomas Shull]

Hi Holly,

While all these solutions would work, I would rather not have to eyeball anything (especially because I do a lot of repos).

Here’s what I did.

1. Download “A Better Finer Rename v8”. The program will rename files for you.
$20 for full version

2. Drag all the original media in to the program and select:

Category: Text > Action: Add text to end > [type -Apple ProRes 422 (Proxy) or whatever your end tag to all the files in your current sequence are named.

3. Reconnect your timeline to the renamed H.264 media and then use media manager to convert to Pro Res 422.

No eyeball, no recompress, no headache. Very simple. I find that Log & Transfer ins’t always stable and will not always pull in all the media completely so I use compressor as well.

Hope it helps in the future!

-T

NOTE: FCP may crash while reconnecting as it does not like the H.264 codec. Be sure to do small sections at a time and save once reconnected.

Film/Commercial Editor
New York City
FCP 7/Avid 5
Mac OSX 10.6.5
Blackmagic HD Extreme 7.9.3
2x Quad-Core Intel Xeon

[Thomas Shull]

I am and I’M getting the same thing. Sorry, FCP just doesn’t hold water. It’s especially frustrating because I work with several graphics artists and animators. We can’t confirm what’s accurate on my system. Not a good feeling when you’re delivering for broadcast.

Film/Commercial Editor
New York City
FCP 7/Avid 5
Mac OSX 10.6.5
Blackmagic HD Extreme 7.9.3
2x Quad-Core Intel Xeon

[Thomas Shull]

Hi Kristian,

I have trashed the preferences but the playback settings remain consolidated. I have adjusted my sequence to be of a ProRes compression which works for the time being.

I’ll try to explore a bit more and see if I can find a way to get those additional playback settings to return but in the mean time I’ll try to keep everything uncompressed or prores.

Thanks for the help Kristian.