FCP-L: Re: [FCP-L] Raid Died - Reconstruct Sequences

On Oct 11, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Peter Sassi wrote:

> Haven't been here in a long time. I have just been lurking
> occasionally.
>
> Anyhow, I tried to help a friend rebuild some lost projects. The
> sequences are cut from several very long clips; entire tapes were
> digitized. The clips have moves on them. Redigitizing from the
> sequences seems to want to redigitize the entire tape as was done
> originally. We tried to "make clip independent" but when it is
> offline that is greyed out.

Yes, you can only media manager online media. When media is "offline"
the full original clips will be used.
>
> I exported the sequence as an EDL, reimported it and it worked fine
> to redigitize. Problem there's hours of sequences and there are
> moves in and out done in FCP. The goal is to not have to do that.
> The only way is to redig from sequences. Problem seems to be as I
> said before, we have to digitize an hour tape for a 20sec clip.

Can the Media Management be done on the original system, with the
offline media available? If the Sequence clips had been made
"Independent" then the media management done with available media it
would work as you expect.
>
> Question is can we apply xml data in some way to only digitize the
> 20sec needed AND keep the moves intact?

I'm not aware of how that might work, nor could Greg (partner/coding
genius for our XML-based software) work out how to make it happen.

Sorry, hopefully someone else has a better answer Bouke are you
awake? :)

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