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Q: two editors working on the same project on fcp 7: workflow question

hi all!

 

i'm new in fcp (i'm more familiar with media composer) and i'm going to edit a project that has already been worked on fcp.

 

shot mainly in 7D over a long period of time, the whole material has been transcoded to prores 422 and now occupies about 15TB of hard disk space. the project has been "split" in several fcp projects (let's say that each project covers one shooting period and then there are several others that only have edits).

 

i would like to be able to work in parallel with the other editor and exchange timelines.

 

my idea is to recompress the projects that correspond to each shooting period (that's where the master clips are) to prores proxy and try to reconnect the projects with the edits to those. this way i intend to gather all the material in one 5TB hard disk and i assume that the timelines i get from the other editor will reconnect easily. is this assumption correct? any ideas?

 

every piece of advice will be very much appreciated!

 

thanks,

nikos.

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Posted on Jan 20, 2016 9:21 AM

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Q: two editors working on the same project on fcp 7: workflow question

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  • by creativestuff,Helpful

    creativestuff creativestuff Jan 24, 2016 1:38 AM in response to nikos_vi
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    Jan 24, 2016 1:38 AM in response to nikos_vi

    Relinking is a matter of getting your labeling can file storage to match, if you are not changing actual drives then it should be easy, if you have a single folder path renamed because it is on a different drive, that relinks quickly too.  That is referring to raw footage.  Once you start chopping things down or working with proxy footage, it gets much more complicated.  I made the mistake of building a bigger project than this, with proxy files of RED footage, identically named in different folders.  What a nightmare to purge the old proxies from the final cut (not the product name).  Now working with full resolution submasters will work up to the point that you need a handle, then you are back to raw.

     

    Merging timelines works well but the initial transfer from project to project tends to screw up.  Save after every keystroke, seriously.