FCP-L: [FCP-L] relinking quicktime ref

Monday, October 26, 2009

[FCP-L] relinking quicktime ref

Hi,

Having some relinking problems here and I'm looking for ideas to solve
it. Here's the situation:

- I captured entire HDCam tapes to ProRes (HQ)
- made subclips and exported by ref
- used 'FCPauxTC' to create a timecode track from the LTC
- exported by ref again
- imported to FCP

I thought I could get away with editing at ProRes (HQ) but the footage
is becoming way more than was predicted and I'm getting out of disk
space. So I transcoded everything to ProRes Proxy using Media Manager,
moved the original HQ files to external drives and put the new Proxy
files in original folders. Something went wrong with the relinking and
the clips are either offline or green.

I want to avoid redoing all the export/import I've done until now and
would like to be able to go back to the HQ files later.

The original master clips do relink, as do the subclips, though it
complained about not having the same track number. Looks like Media
Manager created and extra audio track and the proxy files have two
audio channels instead of one, as the original. I did try to open one
proxy file in QuickTime and manually delete the extra audio channel,
but it didn't help.

Any ideas?

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Helgi Thor
Fortaleza, Brazil

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