site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: pro-apps-dev@lists.apple.com Thanks Ky, - David On Jan 13, 2009, at 3:27 PM, Ky Hopwood wrote: David Thanks Andreas, Thanks, - David On Jan 13, 2009, at 2:13 PM, Andreas Kiel wrote: Hello, Andreas Kiel On 13.01.2009, at 18:58, David Heidelberger wrote: Hello all, Andreas Kiel Spherico Nelkenstr. 25 D-76135 Karlsruhe Tel.: +49 (0)721 183 9753 eFax: +1 650 897 8094 eMail: kiel@spherico.com http://spherico.com/filmtools -- workflow tools for FCP P Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Pro-apps-dev mailing list (Pro-apps-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/pro-apps-dev/site_archiver%40lists.ap... That's the behavior I would expect. Except the media is unedited. In testing, I imported, stripped the tracks, and then reconnected. I even deleted the default blank sequence from the new project. The project only has my test clips. When the error message called the clip a "sequence," that certainly gave me pause. There are no sequences or edits anywhere. Also, I get the same result if I delete the tracks by hand in Quicktime. The Log and Transfer window does let you specify the tracks, yes. But the point of this utility is if the user forgets to do that. It sounds as if you have edited the original media, including the audio tracks that you don't desire and going to be tossing away. If you just imported the old media or only edited the video tracks ( or the tracks that are going to be in the new media ), then you should not get an error. If however you have used all of your tracks, then I would expect for this error to happen. By the way, the Log and Transfer input settings don't allow you to configure to only import the tracks you wish on your camera? That is likely too obvious, but I thought to ask just in case that was overlooked. Assuming it doesn't, just do the following ( before editing) : 1/ transfer media 2/ use your tool to strip the unused tracks 3/ reconnect to the new media. In that scenario, assuming that they were stripped properly, then it should work. I appreciate the thoughts. I realize it's not truly deleting audio. It's not really to free up space, it's more a convenience so that when the assistant editor accidentally digitizes 16 audio tracks over SDI or whatever, you don't have to continually disable 14 of them or waste time redigitizing. Since it's really for convenience, I was trying to make a simple, free utility so that you don't have to shell out 400 euros for MXF4QT (although I hear it's pretty fantastic, I may have to look into it for other uses). Also, since it's for correcting mistakes after-the-fact, it's designed for a user who hasn't captured audio and video separately (I don't think I've ever met anyone who does that). Anyway, still looking for thoughts on that error message. I don't know what your utility does but just deleting an audio track not really removes the track - it just removes the internal QT reference. Just look at the file size before and after. But you can create a new referenced movie that only contains video for example. With P2 you can use the mxf4mac component and you'll never get this problem again as with this component P2 files/tracks are kept as the are - discreet files. Another option is to capture audio video to different locations. This will allow you to delete the audio from the QT file in a way you described since the audio is only a reference within the QT file and Final Cut will re-connect correctly. Sometimes in Final Cut, particularly with newer hard-disk cameras, you can wind up mistakenly digitizing or log-and- transferring media with way more audio tracks than you need. It can become a hassle to constantly be disabling audio tracks while you're editing, so I wrote a little utility program that can strip out excess audio tracks from Quicktime movies, basically batching the same functionality you get when you go into the properties window in Quicktime Pro and delete tracks by hand. For a while, this was fine. You could delete the audio tracks and Final Cut would make the media offline. When you reconnected, it would give you a warning about not being able to find all the tracks, but would reconnect to the media no problem. Somewhere around either 6.0.2 or 6.0.4, something changed and now when I reconnect the media, after going through the warning in the reconnect files window and hitting "Connect," I get this message: "The file does not have enough audio tracks to reconnect to '0003RG' at time 08:59:10;14 in sequence '0003RG'. Click 'OK' to make this item independent and go to the next clip or 'Cancel' to skip all clips from this file." This is using P2 media, and the timecode is the media start time of the clip. Trouble is, neither option seems to do anything. Cancel just cancels out. And hitting okay leaves the clip offline. I've figured out a semi-workaround using Batch Lists and/or XML, but that complicates what was a very simple utility. I guess I don't really have a question, but I'm wondering what should happen if I click "OK" in that dialogue box? Shouldn't it reconnect to my media, but make it a new, independent clip? Since it doesn't, is that a bug? Also, as an aside note, I think Final Cut should be a bit more flexible about missing audio tracks, like it used to be. Thanks, - David Heidelberger _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Pro-apps-dev mailing list (Pro-apps-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/pro-apps-dev/kiel% 40spherico.com This email sent to kiel@spherico.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Pro-apps-dev mailing list (Pro-apps-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/pro-apps-dev/khopwood% 40apple.com This email sent to khopwood@apple.com This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com