Media Manager still not working, even with reel numbers

My December nightmare is in the home stretch. After four editors, and a few midnights of fun with mixed frame rates & codecs, I'm shipping this piece out the door.

What I can't figure out now is why Media Manager is acting up. I have a :30 piece. If I include handles, Media Manager wants 156 GB of free space. If I don't include handles, it wants 3 GB.

All my sources are tape captures with reel numbers & timecode. What else triggers this overindulgence from MM? What else can I troubleshoot here?

Jeff

Did you use Capture Now for any of the source clips?

It's possible. I didn't capture everything myself, but everything has valid timecode, even if it was captured via "capture now".

Is there a difference between logging a clip in, and just doing 'capture now'? Is there a way to tell FCP otherwise?

that's just weird, jeff.
i haven't heard of that happening.

FCP weirdness can sometimes be cured by trashing your preferences.
read this if you haven't done that before:
[www.lafcpug.org]


nick

I didn't trash the preferences, but as an experiment this morning, I did "Make Sequence Clips Independent" and ran the media manager again.

This time, it worked like a charm.

What exactly does "make sequence clips independent" do?

oh, you didn't do that?
you have to do that!


making the SEQUENCE clips independent, means making them independent of the BROWSER clips, which may have different in/out points, or none at all,
so Media Manager only uses what's in the TIMELINE, not the entire clip thats in the browser.


happy trails,
nick