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FCP 6 problems with re-capturePosted by Benjamin H. Bernard
hey guys i dont know if anyone else has had this problem but I am getting offline sequences to be re-captured in a hi-rez codec for compositing but for what ever reason FCP is asking for the original whole clip which is about 40 gigs when the clips in the sequences are a max of 4 or 5 seconds if anyone had any ideas that would be awesome cause im out of them haha thank you
Benjamin,
We too are experiencing MAJOR problems with redigitizing media managed sequences. Specifically, we're noticing that Multiclips are NOT "shedding" unused media. This is causing us EXTREME pain, as we totally rely on the classic "off-line" to "on-line" workflow. Tom, What do you mean by "are the clips off-line" before running MM? Mark
If you are going from offline and recapturing at full res, some people assume they don't need the offline files any more as they're going to re-capture. They assume all they need is the project files. So they dump the offline files for the drive space, and with the offline files "offline" i.e. not available to the project (I hate this use of the term), they run MM. In the past this has been an issue, because the files are not on the hard drive, MM seems to assume everything needs to be captured even after you've ran create offline to make a new hires capture.
I'm assuming you're collapsing your multicam material and making independent before you run MM. Not sure if this will work for you, but after you do that you may try drag the sequence into a new project file. That usually serves to break the link to old material. May not work though with multicam material, and the new FCP6 ability to recognize master clips across projects may have hosed that workaround.
Hi Tom
As I recall, Media Manger not working properly with "Media Offline" clips was a major issue when FCP 5 was first introduced. It had not been a problem with the earlier FCP 4, and it was eventually fixed with a subequent FCP5.0.x point release update. Has this same bug now come back again? Or is this a new issue related specifically to multiclips? cheers Andy
Andy and Tom,
I can confidently say that this is a "New Wrinkle" in FCP 6. We've been successfully Media Managing half hour and one hour shows with multi clip and without multiclip for the past few years. The only change in our set up is the upgrade to "6". We spent the good part of the day on Wednesday experimenting with just about every combination possible to try to get it to work. Strangely, checking things like "include unused angles" seemed to help a bit, but still didn't quite get it all done. I had two separate teams of assistant editors attacking the issue and neither of them could get it to work. I'm curious to hear who else out there is experiencing this issue (Media manager NOT shedding unused media). Mark
Unchecking Include on-active angles shouldn't make a difference on the material I'm testing, but it does. It also only has an affect when the sequence is moved into a new project. In the original project unchecking include non-active angles makes no difference, moving to another project does.
It's very broken compared to 5.1. The new version is producing about twice as much video as the same project in the the previous version. This is depressing as it looked like MM was starting to come right after all these years, and now there's this significant backward step.
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