Red offline clips

i'm working inside color and for some reason some of the clips have the 'offline' red mark. I know they aren't and they actually do show up in the viewer, but i wonder if this is some other type of warning?
thanks
while i'm here i'll ask another.. is it possible to attach a 'custom shape' mask to a motion path? The 'use tracker' feature won't highlight when you create your own mask even though i've already tracked the path.
double thanks
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I don't have an answer for your offline clip problem.
But to attach a user shape to a motion tracker, you need to first attach the shape to your secondary, then use the secondary to assign the motion tracker.
More information can be found in the Color Users Manual, starting on page 225.

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From your description, you are uploading from a card reader?
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I thought I was going to edit my project using my ProRes footage, so logged - with extensive notes - information right into the bin with the media. I've got lots of information in the description coloumn, Angle, Shot/Take, Scene/ Comment A, etc.
Now I've created offline media to edit with (instead of the ProRes) and none of my notes are available on the offline versions.
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Hi Shane,
Thanks for writing.
>> How did you log right into a bin with media?
As I watched the footage (my ProRes footage) I logged - meaning took extensive notes - right into all the useful columns for information to the right of each video file; in the media bin / browser. Maybe my terminology is incorrect. I hope you understand.
>> What media?
My ProRes media; that I was going to edit with. It's the first project where I took notes in the software and not on paper. So, all my logging info is connected to the ProRes clips - in the browser.
>> Did you have the full res media and you were logging with that.?
Yes.
>> And then you say you " created offline media..." HOW?
In MPEG Streamclip - which is why I've got this problem with no clear solution; I guess!
>> You must have done it outside of FCP. You can't just transfer metadata. If you logged footage inside FCP, and you want that metadata to carry over to offline media, you need to make that offline media INSIDE of FCP...using the MEDIA MANAGER and the RECOMPRESS option.
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I have a project that I am working on and I have two scratch disks I am working with. I have taken the clips from the one external drive, that I no longer want to use as a scratch disk, and transferred the capture scratch folder into the capture scratch folder on the one scratch disk I want to primarily use. My question is, how do I reconnect all the now offline clips in the time line?

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I have all the media connected except the voiceover. I even find the voiceover clips and I drag them into the browser then I try to reconnect them without luck. I can manually drag one at a time from the browser to the time line to replace those off lines, so I just have to work around it. The reason why I move them around at the first place? Because I need the space in my internal drives for a new project, therefore I want to save the project (including the medias) in my external drive for future editing. Apparently, I am not smart enough to handle it.
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I am working on a project where i created two offline clips and used these dummy tracks to offline a show. I am now trying to connect these offline clips to the real clips. FCP will not let me do it. It says I have the wrong reel number and the clip has the wrong length.
I am using pro res and it will not even allow a small edit reconnect to the real clip. I physically edited the clips on v2 into the show. You would think it would at least let me connect these clips to the original pro res clips at the time code laid down in the clip which is well within these boundaries.
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OK, I think you are going to need to find someone else to help with this because I am totally lost:
Capt Roger wrote:
The original clips are being recorded with an Aja Kipro on to their own removable drives using apple prores 422LT.
OK
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OK, this is where you lose me. It is not clear to me what you mean by this. Do you mean overwriting in the sense of overwriting media on the drives, or overwriting in the sense of using the overwrite command to place a clip on the timeline? If you have imported the media, and are placing it in the timeline, what are you trying to reconnect?
I have tried to reconnect the media but to no avail because of the errors above.
Sorry, this is not clear to me what this means. I am not sure that you can use "offline clips" in the way you are attempting to use them, but as I say, this is new territory for me.
My mac is a 10.64 2.53GHz intel, FCP is #7, Quicktime is 10.0.
Useful, helpful information.
I am on a new Mac laptop and am using automator to set the in's, the outs and perform the actual edits on the offline clips I created by using the "create a new offline clip" under the "new-create new offline clip" in the file menu.
Ok, does this mean you have set up an automator function to set dummy clips into a timeline so that when the actual media is acquired, you hope to reconnect to these dummy clips? Are you creating the timeline in advance of acquiring the actual media?
The weird thing is FCP 7 does not see the footage on the KiPro drives as video files even they are Apple 422LT. What is up with that?
1) Check the files at the finder level on the KiPro drives. Do they have file extensions?
2) If you drag a file from the drive to Quicktime 7 (which should be in your Utilities folder) does the video open? What does the Quicktime Movie Inspector Window say?
3) You said earlier that you imported the clips into FCP. Do they show up in a bin? Can you click on one and type Command + 9 to the item properties and report what the window says (or if it is easier, post a screen shot)?
Sorry that I can't be of more help to you, I have never worked this way so am at a loss as to how to proceed.
Hopefully one of the experts that look at these post can help.
MtD

Offline Clips aus einem Videostream mit Medien verbinden

Ich möchte aus einem langen Vido
stream vorhandene Offlineclips
mithilfe des vorhanden Timecodes mit den entsprechenden Teilmedien verbinden. Geht das überhaupt mit Premiere CS3 oder 4?
Der Hintergrund ist folgender:
Ich habe meine alten Hi-8 Bänder auf einer externen Festplatte gespeichert und möchte, ohne neu aufzeichnen zu müssen, das Videomaterial mit den Clips, die sich im Projekfenster befinden, verbinden.
Der Vorgang sollte folgendermaßen ablaufen:
1. Der z.B. 1-stündige Videoclip wurde mit entsprechendem Timecode auf der Festplatte aufgezeichnet.
2. Die offlineVideoclips befinden sich im Projektfenster und benötigen nur Teile des Originalclips.
3. Die Clips sollen nun die entsprechenden Teilmedien aus dem Gesamtclip herausholen.
Hat jemand eine Idee, ob dies überhaupt möglich ist?
Gruß GH

Hallo Mylenium
Meine Frage ist leider noch nicht beantwortet.
Hier meine Idee:
Ich habe meine Hi-8 Bänder auf einer externen Festplatte gespeichert. Für jedes Band besitze ich eine Schnittliste. Nun soll folgendes gemacht werden, wenn es geht:
Die Offline-Clips sollen timecodegenau aus dem dazugehörenden Hi-8 Band ihre entsprechenden Medien heraussuchen. Ich möchte damit vermeiden, dass ich das gespeicherte Band erst wieder aus Premiere auf meinen DV-Recorder überspiele und dann via Batchaufnahme in mein Projekt zurückbringe muss. Ich will so Qualitätseinbußen durch mehrfaches überspielen vermeiden.
Gruß
GH

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Hi,
I have a problem with Final cut pro and Xsan.
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We have 7 Mac pro and Xsan 2. When we make offline the clips in final cut pro and select delete from disk, sometimes the QT files are deleted from Xsan volume but in FCP in the browser does not shows the clips as offline (with the red line in the clips). Sometimes, when we leave FCP and click on the desktop and
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Hi
This might be a really dumb question, but after I have rendered my graded clips in color and then create an XML (which I then opened in After Effects) Why is it when I go back to my color project file...
1) doesn't even exist anymore? I had to find an archive copy and open that
2) the archive copy when I open it, everything is offline. All the clips are red and there is no preview of anything.
I've tried reconforming but when I do that, Color comes up with a message saying that only FCP XML and EDLs can be reconformed. However when I first sent the file to Color it was definitely from FCP.
Is there some thing with Color that once I've rendered and exported out an EDL that everything becomes offline and I can't make anymore changes to it?
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated!
cheers
Rach

OK...you are leaving out details. HOW did you get the footage into Color in the first place?
The proper workflow for Color is as follows:
- Edit in FCP
- SEND TO Color
- Grade and render
- SEND TO FCP
Another option...
- Export self contained QT file in the ProRes format from your NLE
- Export an EDL as well, so Color can chop up the single QT file into individual shots
- Import EDL into Color...point to referenced QT file
- Grade the footage...render.
- Send to FCP.
Color is meant to work with FCP.

Reconnecting Media to offline clips

Hi all,
I have an interesting situation with a client. Never seen this problem/scenario before.
Here is the setup....
--> Client is logging all footage on her computer.
--> I provided her with a formatted Excel document that will allow me to import a batch list.
--> I converted her Excel logs to a txt document, then successfully imported the batch list into FCP.
--> After importing the log, FCP appears to like the log information. Everything is in its proper column, the clip icon (still with a red slash through it) and all of the necessary info (Clip name, Media Start and Media End, Log notes, Reel, etc) are all properly placed. FCP Even calculates the duration of the clip for us.
The problem is, when I try to "Reconnect Media" in an effort to connect the log information in FCP to the actual clips, it is a massive fail.
What I am seeing when trying to Reconnect Media....
--For starters, I notice that all of the logging entries in the browser are checkmarked as offline.
--When I try to Reconnect Media, the RM dialog is asking me to search for the NAME of the individually logged clip, rather than the REEL.
--RM cannot successfully reconnect media. At best, I turn off the Match Name option (Even though the REEL name is spelled perfectly in comparison to the actual video file), then manually select the clip to reconnect to. Interestingly, upon reconnecting, FCP has renamed the REEL in the browser as "0", rather than using the actual reel name.
Any help as to how I can import the clients log files(36 pages of info) and connect them to the actual video files?
Thanks,
Matt

If the clips are not actually missing, you could try to refresh the timeline by using cmd-0 and then going to the timeline options tab. Then select name only where it says "thumbnail display". Press ok to accept the change, then repeat the process to add thumbnails back to your timeline.

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For sure. attached screenshot. I locked the 3rd track so you can see the difference.
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Using Media manager or any other software element is there a way of batch capturing only the short offline (decomposed) clips from the timeline without re-digising the whole of the 10 hours which is missing from the drives. Also., to make things more complicated, this has to be done automatically i.e. without re-editing the clips from the browser back into the timeline.
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haven't tried this but it may be worth some investigation.
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Subject line pretty much sums it up. I know that they will be pretty large files, but I'd really like to play with some native Red 4k footage using CS5 and I don't have access to a Red 4k camera.
The longer the duration, the better, and each clip needs to be at least a minute long.
Also, the better quality the footage, the better as well. Seeing some good indoor and outdoor shots would be nice.
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Thanks so much everyone that replied!
Roberio's stock footage links were interesting, and RED stock footage is $$$; no, it is $$$$$
Todd, your links were interesting and useful too, even though the RED is 2k, not 4k.
Robodog2, regarding, "...testing a RED camera at home a few months ago", sweet! Thanks for your interesting link as well.
Terry, you have provided exactly what I needed to perform some simple testing, even though the files turned out to be 4.5k instead of 4k, and the longest clip is only 20 seconds. The files from this Russian site are 4480x1920, 23.976 (frame rate), and 34.4MB/sec.
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http://www.tomguilmette.com/wp/my-blog/archives/2913
Also, if anyone is interested in my test results with the RED 4.5k footage on a high-end PC that does not have any special hardware installed (RED Rocket, etc.), I've summarized my findings below:
PC: Intel i7-970 at 4.2GHz, 7x1TB RAID 5 array, and a GTX 480 with 1.5GB GDDR5 VRAM:
TEST 1a: Hardware MPE and un-rendered timeline:
- Scrubbing and playback at 1/2 resolution - perfect quality, no lag whatsoever, CPU usage around 70% (wow, that's with 6 real cores and 6 hyperthread pseudo cores!)
- Scrubbing and playback at full resolution - HORRIBLE, unusable
TEST 1b: Hardware MPE and fully rendered timeline:
- Scrubbing and playback at full resolution - perfect quality, no lag whatsoever, CPU usage around 20% for playback
- Full timeline render is pretty slow - about 9 minutes for 1 minute and 20 seconds of clips on the timeline
TEST 2a: Hardware MPE and un-rendered timeline; this time with 4 layers displayed simultaneously (each at 50% size and in a separate corner):
- Scrubbing and playback at 1/4 resolution - perfect quality, no lag whatsoever, CPU usage around 100% (again, wow!); also, I have to add that RED at only 1/4 resolution is still pretty stunning!
- Scrubbing and playback at full resolution - HORRIBLE, unusable
TEST 2b: Hardware MPE and fully rendered timeline; same 4 layers as test 2A:
- Scrubbing and playback at full resolution - perfect quality, no lag whatsoever, CPU usage around 20% for playback
- Full timeline render is again pretty slow - about 7 minutes for 4 clips around 20 seconds each
Regards,
Jim

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