Media Manager, Recompressing...

I'm attempting to combine my spanned clips does any one know if there is a way within media manager to do this. So that I can conform to ProRess and combine clips at the same time, while still saving existing timecode.
Thanks,
Jeremiah

Thanks for the reply, code c doesn't matter I was just wanting to see if there was a setting or button in the media manager, that i've overlooked, that would combine the clips, I know I can re compress into whatever I want but, it re compresses an exact copy of the clip, it won't combine clips which is what I was hoping it would, Do.
Thanks anyways

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No. Just send him a screen shot.

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I've captured HDV footage to ProRes and all that is ok. I wanted to use Media Manager to recompress to a lower bit rate format for mobile editing. All that is fine, too.
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When I use preset formats from the media manager list, the digital cinema desktop function works fine. When I create a custom setting in the media manager (recompressing) the digital cinema desktop display function stays still on the first frame and only changes when I stop it (and it changes to the frame where I stopped).
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Matt

Thanks for the answer.
Well, after much experimenting with workflow (some time ago) I had decided upon always capturing to ProRes from the camera. My system seems to work smoother (therefore I work faster) with the ProRes than with the HDV.
In any case, it was near identical.
In this case, what I really need is to create two sets of media. I need something very small and portable for this edit, while keeping the ProRes (or original HDV) on my main computer for when I'm there.
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How about trying to convert in Quicktime rather than Media Mangler?

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First, thanks to everybody who help out here in the forum!
I have a question:
We have a big project in the pipeline including 4 projects of each 350GB of HDV1080i50 material on different discs. We want to copy these 4 projects using the media manager and delete unused material to move it into one editing station for final editing. We will stay in HDV native editing.
In media manager, if I choose "Copy" and "Delete unused material" the estimated final size after the copy will be around 70% of the original project.
But if I keep the same settings for "Delete unused material" BUT use "Recompress" instead of "Copy" I get a much smaller estimated project (less than 25% of the original project!) using the same format as the native project (HDV1080i50)
I want to get down is size to save discspace, but please explain:
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2. Since the Recompress-option will give me a smaller file-size I would like to go for this one, but is it a bad thing to recompress the material to the format (HDV1080i50) as it allready is in??
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Best regards from Sweden.
/chris

Hey Jerry, thanks for your reply.
I actually did 2 tests. One with the setting for Recompress and one with Copy, and they turned out to have the same file-size!!
So conclusion: the estimated size that media manager gives for the Recompress-setting for HDV is FALSE. It turned out that the Recompress-setting gave me the same size as the Copy-setting and nothing less. So: I guess I have to trust the copy-setting and go for that one without recompressing.
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/Chris

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BUT - where is the actual project file??
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I couldn't find this addressed anywhere so if it has been already, I apologize.
Does anyone know if there is the FCP 7 equivalent of the Media Manager option in FCPX? I'll explain my situation...
I work in a high school and cut highlight reels for our football players. By the end of the season I have literally hundreds of GBs of footage on my hard drive. In FCP 7 I would import all of the footage into my project and then cut out only the plays I needed. I would end up with a 5 minute video. I wanted to save the project in case the player wanted any changes down the line and I also wanted to back it up in case of a hard drive crash. What I would do is run it through Media Manager so that the whole project would compress down and only copy the files that were actually used in the video. I would end up with a project and copied reference files that only took up a few GBs at most. That was easy to archive and back up.
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dknight38 wrote:
… would end up with a project and copied reference files that only took up a few GBs at most. …
… for one player.-
I fully understand what you'd like to accomplish.
but - theoretically - with your method you save the same material again and again:
aside close-ups, you frame more than one player in a sequence.
with FCPX actual method, that single Event serves many Projects.
so, you SAVE space without consolidating every Project.
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I'm not exactly sure where to ask this, so I'm asking here.
I'm editing a ProRes 422 sequence in Final Cut. If I 'copy' media using Media Manager, getting rid of the unused portions (while keeping 2 sec handles), will there be a loss of quality in the newly produced clips?
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Shouldn't be. This is just a COPY but within parameters. ONLY THIS PART OF THE CLIP. No recompression. But don't take my word for it. TEST it. See for yourself.
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cheers.

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I wouldn't do what you're trying to do.
Are you trying to send them a completed show? Export to QuickTime then use Compressor to get to H.264 or MPEG4.
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I have tested this several times.
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