Tim Spicer
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COW Coins
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Hey Matthew, thank a million for these tips. This is exactly the kind of technically specific “leg up” I needed. All the best. Tim
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G’day Doug,
Thank you, thank you, thank you. This rather ungainly project of mine is up and running!! You’ve saved me weeks and weeks of work. You are a valuable asset to this community.
There are still five takes that refuse to let me relink them, citing frame rate incompatibility. Other takes that were shot immediately before and after on the same camera relink just fine. I can’t find a work around and don’t know of a force relink function. Can you point me in the direction of how to get these five takes back in the game?
Cheers,
Tim
PS lemme know how I can sling some bickies your way.
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DOUG METZ!!!!
Wow, I don’t know how you did it but it is working almost perfectly!!!! Hundreds and hundreds of clips and edits and bins etc are all there, relinked and ready to go. In total only 8 files cannot be relinked alegedly because, “frame rates don’t match”. I’m sure I can easily work through this problem.
So, when you have time, please go ahead and knock out the balance of the project using your mysterious yet highly effective alchemy.
I can’t begin to tell how much this means to me. Thank you so very much.
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Hi Doug,
You are the man!!
Not sure if it will help, but I want to tell you my goal with the project. Originally, I sliced up my interviews, dumping thematically similar clips on timelines. Hence all those themed folders. Some themes were then edited much tighter. It’s these unrefined but categorised timelines I want to use as the starting point as I rekindle this project.
Hope this isn’t turning into too much of a headache for you.
Tim
PS Is it just me, or is it kind of preposterous that an ‘old project import tool’ is not part of fcpx? I ran a post house for more than ten years and we frequently had clients wanting to update older projects.
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G’day Doug,
It’s taken me a few days to find the right project file. This is a fairly massive project with many, many timelines. I’m assuming you work one timeline at a time rather than somehow converting the entire project. From memory, the project is divided into a series of themes, maybe 30 in total. I will eventually need the latest edit from each of these folders. Could you please first have a look and maybe try just one timeline and we’ll see how it goes.
I was full time in TV and Film Post production in Australia until I moved to Germany about 10 years ago. I am now back into it with a new computer and FCPX – it has changed a bit!!! This project will be a big documentary/video installation. It is comprised of fragments of about 300 interviews with people from each of the 50 states of the US taken in 2008 and 2009.
Your help is soooo appreciated.
Tim Spicer
Pls let me know if the link doesn’t work.
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Hi Doug, I have exactly the same problem. I think my project is quite large. I’d be happy to pay you for your time if you were able to help me. I quit the film and tv biz 12 years ago and have just got a new laptop, ready to dive in again.
Cheers,
Tim
