Re: Reconnecting to modified media
Re: Reconnecting to modified media
- Subject: Re: Reconnecting to modified media
- From: David Heidelberger <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:54:24 -0500
Thanks Andreas,
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.
Thanks,
- David
On Jan 13, 2009, at 2:13 PM, Andreas Kiel wrote:
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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