[Trevor Asquerthian]

On further reflection, it seems to be a problem between keyboard and chair.

[Trevor Asquerthian]

I’ve just had the same issue inserting into an SR deck. Making the in point a couple of edits earlier seemed to help… or having the outpoint in the middle of a clip, rather than at a boundary.

Google search reveals 2 posts, one from 2005 and one from 2006. So it can’t be that common a problem!

[Trevor Asquerthian]

[Andy Mees] “If you Media Manage a sequence … then the duplicate sequences are already linked to the newly managed media.”

That’s when you have the luxury of waiting to the end to MM the sequence… I can’t bear the grief that xdcam footage causes FCP, and want to move any shots I use off FW drives to RAID, so it’s easier to do it ad-hoc in the sequence.

It’s a FR really (which I have put in the Apple black hole) for the choice when MMing clips in a timeline to have them consolidate *and* reconnect…

[Andy Mees] “its really probably a good time to give Bouke Vahl’s FCPreconnect app another plug.”

Yes I’ve looked at that, and it is a very neat application, but I don’t feel it is particularly suited to this job. (Until I want to reconnect back to the original clips… which will be a severe test of its reconnect abilities 😉

I’m also very wary of having any reconnect issues before picture lock…

[Trevor Asquerthian]

[Andy Mees] “Don’t make this harder than it needs to be Trevor, just let Media Manager (re)consolidate everything.
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Just trying to save time… it’s going to be 75min show at the end, with 5 second handles that’s a lot of consolidating. If I can get ahead and consolidate the rough cut….

[Andy Mees] “Fwiw, you can display the “Source” column in the Browser to more easily isolate which media needs to be consolidated vs that which doesn’t … but this won’t help with the relinking which will still need to be done after the fact (as using Media Manager to copy media does not change the reference to the original media source in the exiting project).”

THis is one of my bug bears with FCP. Great I can edit with XDCam or whatever in the timeline and right click and ‘media manage’ to recompress it to my sequence codec, with handles. But I have to manually reconnect that clip…

Also with the clips in the browser (and these are ‘create master clips’ clips as I only have sequences in my projects) I can’t ‘consolidate’ as I understand it – because it will be the full length master clip, rather then a selection of subclips as contained in the sequence… so any help here gratefully received.

I think I might end up with the 0 frame consolidate (i.e. a self-contained quicktime) to save me too much grief!

Thanks for your input Andy

[Trevor Asquerthian]

It seems to do a trim in 4 places at once… a ‘slide’ around the 2 clips and a roll edit on the edit in between… presumably on all the edits in between.

[Trevor Asquerthian]

AJA IO Express using PCIe card.

These are long sequences (3 hours) of DVCproHD.

Still get spinning beach ball a bit with external video off, just not as bad.

[Trevor Asquerthian]

Hi Andreas

Looks like it could do. It borked on a folder of H264 clips (just crashed out). I’ve just tried it on a folder with only 1 SD_DV clip in it, which I gave a reel name of ‘test’ before running auxtc on it.

The resultant xml, when imported to FCP, reports

“Tue, Feb 8, 2011, 21:43 – Errors Found Importing t.xml
: Unable to attach specified media file to new clip.”

The ‘media offline’ clip reports it’s reel as 20110208 (rather than test) – matching the aux1 and aux2 reels.

It did work on a different clip though….

I’ll play around some more if I can find some proper media.

[Trevor Asquerthian]

I work on pretty much a sequence per project – makes it much easier to open / save / find in the finder. But your problem may be the XDCam material – long GOP format that FCP does not seem that smooth with (in my experience). It’s got to do a lot of decoding on the fly.

I do have issues with some of my longer selects sequences – 3 hours of DVCProHD on a fast raid. They are fine when playing or mousing around, but as soon as I try and shuttle or JKL I get a spinning beach ball. Can’t quite get to the bottom of it, but I assume it’s the fact that the machine is trying to pull lots of data off the disks and through the CPUs. No crashes from that though. XDCam sequences, on the other hand, especially if they have 50fps material in them… say goodbye and check your autosave vault.

[Trevor Asquerthian]

Thanks. I thought that might be the answer, but it’s a bit of a PITA.

and Send to motion is currently crashing both Motion and FCP…. oh well I guess I can try and fish out the clips manually.

[Trevor Asquerthian]

Great, thanks Nick.

The clips mostly have ‘test’ or ‘NoName’ as their reel number already!

For anyone interested the macro is: (with clip selected in browser and ‘Timecode…’ assigned to Ctl+Alt+8).

CMD+9 – to get clip details
100ms delay
CMD+C – to copy name
100ms delay
Escape – to leave clip details
100ms delay
CTL+ALT+8 – to modify timecode (REASSIGNED KEY)
200ms delay
TAB – to move to reel name
100ms delay
CMD+V – to paste clip name
20ms delay
RETURN – to modify timecode
20ms delay
Arrow Down – to move to next clip, ready for the next adjustment.