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Inspiring
January 12, 2025
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Production wanting to bring in old sequences to production and relink to footage in production

  • January 12, 2025
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I produce commercials in many cities.  Each city had their own project.

Now I have lucid link and changing to Production with each city being their own project within production.  Starting fresh.

I have one project within production that holds all the video from all of the cities.  

I have separate projects for each city.  That way multiple editors can be working with the same footage doing commercials for different cities.

 

When I come back from a shoot I put the interview on a sequence and cut it up so when I edit I only look at the couple minutes of good material rather than the whole 12-minute interview.

 

Can I bring these old interview sequences in to the new production style of doing things?  If I go into the project within production for that city and import the interview from the old project it brings in the interview video clips too (RED) and I'm wanting to not do that.  I'm wanting to tell it to link to the video clips within the project I set up in production with all of my video in it already.  (GREEN)

 

I'm just trying to avoid:

A) Having a ton of extra reference clips.

B) Having to re-cut old interviews

Correct answer videoholic

What I just did was I brought the interviews in to the production, offlined the media, relinked to the media on lucidlink and then copied the files that got put in my sequence project back in to the project that is housing all of the video and deleted the ones that weren't being used yet (Since this is all new that's pretty easy).  It's kinda crappy way to do it, but I will only have to do it occasionally so it's not too bad.  It would be great though if there was an automated way to do this.

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R Neil Haugen
Legend
January 12, 2025

So you still are working from the original clips, in reality. As cutting on a sequence does not create a new file on disc, it only links to the original file.

 

If you made subclips, those will have their own metadata and can be seen as separate items in a project panel bin. You would still of course have the original clips there, but able to sort and use by subclip.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
videoholicAuthorCorrect answer
Inspiring
January 12, 2025

What I just did was I brought the interviews in to the production, offlined the media, relinked to the media on lucidlink and then copied the files that got put in my sequence project back in to the project that is housing all of the video and deleted the ones that weren't being used yet (Since this is all new that's pretty easy).  It's kinda crappy way to do it, but I will only have to do it occasionally so it's not too bad.  It would be great though if there was an automated way to do this.