[STN-Affiliates] Offline Clips?

[JEREMY BRANDT]

I'm assuming this is a Final Cut project.  The project file alone will
not play on another Mac. You'd need to send all of the Captured Media
files as well as the Render files and any other files created outside of
the project that had been imported into the project.  In other words the
Final Cut project file is just an empty container that holds information
with pointers to the media files associated with it.

What I do to send project files from one Mac to another (for instance if
a student wants a project he worked on with a group and it resides on a
different computer than where he's building a dvd project for burning
all of his projects) is to export a Self-Contained QuickTime Movie.

In the browser window of Final Cut, select the sequence containing the
project.  Go to File>Export>QuickTime Movie.  In the dialog box that
opens, name the file and make sure the box is checked that says "Make
Movie Self-Contained".  This creates a (larger) file that has all of the
media associated with it, in a nice little "self-contained" version.
Now you can send that newly created file and send it to any computer to
play it.

Keep in mind that if you bring this file into a Final Cut project, it
will appear as one long clip.  It will not have all of the information
about tracks, cuts, etc. that the original Final Cut sequence had.


Jeremy Brandt
TV/Video Teacher
JBrandt at nhvweb.net
VHSTV
Voorhees High School
Glen Gardner, NJ


-----Original Message-----
From: affiliates-bounces at studenttelevision.com
[mailto:affiliates-bounces at studenttelevision.com] On Behalf Of Chuck
Massey
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 9:50 AM
To: Sandy Beeson; affiliates at studenttelevision.com
Subject: Re: [STN-Affiliates] Offline Clips?

Sandy,

Final Cut Pro requires a local scratch drive unless you are using XSAN.
In other words, students have to stay on the same computer for the FCP
project.  The data files go off-line because
they are stored on a local drive such as the system drive or an external
drive attached to the computer that contains the original footage, etc.

Chuck Massey
Apple Certified Trainer Final Cut Pro 6
Cabot High TV
Cabot, Arkansas 

>>> Sandy Beeson <sbeeson.hhs at gmail.com> 2/18/2009 8:33 AM >>>
I have my Macs networked and I have a kid who did a stop motion project
on
one Mac and he's trying to open it on a different Mac.  A lot of the
clips
on the 2nd Mac say offline but on the original Mac they are there,
rendered,
and fine.  Any ideas why this is happening?

-- 
Sandy Beeson
War Eagle Television
Rogers Heritage High School
Rogers, AR


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