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1. Re: Project Manager ruins timecode and tape name
JSS1138 Dec 11, 2013 8:04 AM (in response to Elliott B.)I always recommend not using the Project Manager. It's best to use a proper file manager for any file operations, rather than an NLE.
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2. Re: Project Manager ruins timecode and tape name
Qengineering Dec 11, 2013 10:56 AM (in response to JSS1138)Jim, can you recommend a "file manager" that can import a Premeire sequence, relink media, then consolidate all media files to a new location and then create a file that can be opened by a colorist in, let's say, DaVinci?
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3. Re: Project Manager ruins timecode and tape name
jstrawn Dec 11, 2013 2:06 PM (in response to Qengineering)Are the media files all spread out all over the place? Or are they organized to the degree that you could migrate them all along with the project file onto an external hard drive or network drive? Because if you can get all the files into a portable location with their realtive folder structures intact, you should be able to hand the whole thing off and the colorist can just use link and locate to relink all the media upon opening the project.
PrPro's Project Manager worked pretty well at one point, but I have to admit it doesn't uslaly handle a lot of the current formats very well.
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4. Re: Project Manager ruins timecode and tape name
Elliott B. Dec 11, 2013 2:15 PM (in response to jstrawn)The files are mostly in one location, so I could copy them all. If only it were so simple.
The color grading software (Resolve in this case), can't handle this kind of footage, so I need to transcode a DI. Since my project is rather large, my idea was to use Project Manager to make a new project with only one sequence, then in the new simplified project I would highlight all clips and transcode with AME. That plan fails, since timecode and tape names are wrong. It would be highly impractical to transcode all 50 hours of raw footage.
If this is a known shortcoming of Project Manager, there needs to be a big warning when you use it on unsupported footage that it's going to mess things up.
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5. Re: Project Manager ruins timecode and tape name
Qengineering Dec 11, 2013 2:19 PM (in response to Elliott B.)As a work around, could you open a new (empty) project and import your single sequence?
This brings in only the clips needed and you could sort by file type to re-organize.
I'm hoping someone can suggest a "file manager" as mentioned by Jim.
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6. Re: Project Manager ruins timecode and tape name
Elliott B. Dec 11, 2013 3:26 PM (in response to Qengineering)That's a great idea.
Importing the sequence into a new PP project brings the accurate timecode and tape names, so it's easy to export all the clips. But after queueing them up and exporting QuickTimes in AME, the new files all have timecode starting at zero and no tape name! WTF??
Here is a screenshot with proof. You can see file 00001.MTS in Premiere with timecode starting at 46:10:20 and in AME starting at zero.
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7. Re: Project Manager ruins timecode and tape name
Qengineering Dec 11, 2013 3:51 PM (in response to Elliott B.)I believe AME will retain time code from certain format files but not all formats.
A further way to possibly reduce the workload (but not correct the underlying problem), use Project Manager to consolidate ALL the clips, then delete the new, erroneous consolidated clips from the FS700. Isolate the original FS700 clips that were used in the sequence (using sort in the Project window). Locate the original FS700 files and see if AME can transcode the entire raw clips directly.
If that fails to retain original time code, you would have to replace each FS700 clip in the sequence manually with the new transcoded files. Sorry.





