In RCX how do I export the timeline as single clip?

[Mark Deeble]

Probably a stupid question, but I have 3 shots in a timeline in RCX (3 parts of a single time-lapse, had to change battery 3 times...) - is there a way of exporting this as a single R3D clip? - I imagine there must be, but I cannot find a thread about it or find it in the manual.

 

[Matthew Yaeger]

There is no way to Export to R3D. You can Trim (Copy) frames from one R3D into a new shortened R3D, however you cannot combine frames from multiple R3D files into a single one.

 

[Mark Deeble]

Thanks Matthew - that is a shame. Especially for time-lapse (my current application) - it would be great. Trimming is fine, but with the ability to string shots together on a timeline, it would be great to be able to export them as a single clip in their original acquisition format. I am in the position, working on a wildlife feature, accumulating about 70 - 100TB material over 2.5 years where if i cannot combine individual ' part takes' into a shot, then they risk not being 'seen' when it comes to the edit.

 

[David Ibbitson]

Hi Mark,

If you want to keep orignal clips around in a more space efficient manner, currently one option might be to make it a two stage process:

1. Assemble your timeline and trim each clip individually. (Timeline Separate clips).

2. Export timeline to a single clip in QuickTime. (Timeline all clips).

David

 

[Mark Deeble]

Thanks David - I think that would help, as at least it would be in the proxies, and if we could flag it as being a string of shots, then we'd know it was in the R3Ds. My concern was that if the time-lapse was effectively split into 3 and not reassembled, then, after logging /proxying etc we'd lose how the shots were originally linked together and as each on its own wasn't particularly remarkable, then they'd never be 'seen' in the edit.

 

[Marc Wielage]

Make a lot of notes, and assemble the shots together manually in the edit. I believe this is how documentaries and time-lapse footage was done for about the last 90 years, when it was shot on film. Somehow, it worked for them.

 

[Mark Deeble]

Make a lot of notes, and assemble the shots together manually in the edit. I believe this is how documentaries and time-lapse footage was done for about the last 90 years, when it was shot on film. Somehow, it worked for them.

I've been doing that for the past 25 years (!) and it worked well when it was simply an Arri and a fridge full of film cans. These days we rarely finish a film with the camera and NLE we started it with, not to mention drives, LTOs etc. Our films take between 2 and 4 years to produce and over that time there are a lot of changes and we shoot a lot of material.
Logging / note taking is key, I agree, but I am firmly of the opinion that if it can go wrong then at some stage it will go wrong - being able to make a quick assembly in the RCX timeline and export as a single clip would just have plugged one of the holes where error can creep in.

 

[Matthew Yaeger]

You could save a copy of the project file along with your sources. The project file is where timelines in RCX get saved to. Then anytime you load one of the projects it will ask you for the other files that were included in it when opened.