Re: Reconnecting to modified media
Re: Reconnecting to modified media
- Subject: Re: Reconnecting to modified media
- From: Andreas Kiel <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:13:16 +0100
Hello,
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.
Andreas Kiel
On 13.01.2009, at 18:58, David Heidelberger wrote:
Hello all,
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
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