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In final Cut Pro, will subclips relink if they get disconnected?

Asked by rovdog (842points) August 13th, 2009

Trying to get my workflow down for an FCP project. Made subclips from master clips but tried exporting them and reimporting and they will not relink to the original media. What is the proper workflow here? Do I need to create new clips with media manager and edit with them? Problem is this is a film project so there is keycode information tied to the media- is there a way that that can be transfered to the new clips?

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Bri_L's avatar

I may not be following you right here. When you open the project does it indicate the subclips are missing? That it can’t find them?

rovdog's avatar

Yes, it did. But I figured out the problem. FYI- though I doubt anyone will be doing this. Normally, subclips should easily reconnect. The problem was that my editor and I had exported out an XML file so that I could make log notes on my computer and eventually he could reimport them. That XML file reimported into FCP was being used to reconnect to the subclips. However, when you do that and reimport the XML file- they are no longer are subclips- they look like new clips without any media attached to them to FCP. Therefore, it can’t reconnect to the media because it thinks these are new master clips. Follow me? Not sure why FCP does this but it can’t do everything perfectly. Lesson learned- basically don’t get fancy and start exporting out XMLs and importing them w/subclips. I’m sure this would work with master clips however.

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