color edl several HD's

[Brian D. Goff]

When importing an EDL into color, I can only select one path for the footage. I have the footage on several HD's - alias in one folder didn't work - any other way to get color to see all HD's at once for relinking footage?

Thanks

 

[Brandon Kraemer]

If you can send your footage to Color from a FCP timeline (file>send to> color) and that footage is in multiple places it should all come into the color project. Try importing your EDL into FCP and round trip that way.

 

[Nick Shaw]

Using the 'send to Color' approach you will get the notorious 'loop bug', if your edits span R3D files, but you can fix that with the method described here. It's a manual fix for now, but there will be an automated Clipfinder solution in future.

 

[Brandon Kraemer]

To clarify, I was speaking of sending transcoded clips off the timeline, not proxies. i.e. the Crimson workflow method.

 

[Brian D. Goff]

To clarify, I was speaking of sending transcoded clips off the timeline, not proxies. i.e. the Crimson workflow method.

Thanks

But I was supprised and happy to see color directly import my edl (avid) direktly without any hassels - but I can only select on HD (and I have 4

 

[Brandon Kraemer]

Thanks

But I was supprised and happy to see color directly import my edl (avid) direktly without any hassels - but I can only select on HD (and I have 4

One more thought... you could export an AAF from Avid, import that with Auto Duck Pro Import FCP, easily re-link your files and then send to color.

Otherwise I guess you have to move your files to one HD or manually reconnect your clips one at a time with in Color, which should allow you to target files on multiple directories, but tedious since that function seems to be hit and miss sometimes.

Best,

Brandon.

 

[Nick Shaw]

One more thought... you could export an AAF from Avid, import that with Auto Duck Pro Import FCP, easily re-link your files and then send to color.

That's exactly what I've been doing today, and it all worked very smoothly - with a little help from Clipfinder.

 

[Brian D. Goff]

That's exactly what I've been doing today, and it all worked very smoothly - with a little help from Clipfinder.

Getting color to use all volumes is simple - stupid me Just add as the path "/Volumes" - that's it, color will search all volumes connected to the computer. But this has the drawback, that if you have footage from a other project, color might relink the wrong files.