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DOES ANY ONE KNOW HOW TO IMPORT SINGLE CLIP TO AFX

Russ Fill

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Just trying to import only one of the clips in each of the RD3 files. You know some of the time when clips are large the create a number of other same clips in the file.
How do you import jut one clip in to AFX to drop on the time line?
 
I'm not quite sure I understand the question.

If you're trying to import the whole take (all of the spanned clips), You can just drag one portion into After Effects and it will recognize the whole clip and you'll be fine.

If you're trying to import only one section of a spanned clip, you'll have to orphan it by moving it out of the folder structure away from the other numbered clips. It should work, but I can't say if it will have unintended consequences down the road.
 
Thank you Angelo for your info, Im trying to import all the clips from the REDmag with out having to import each file just the clips and also just one of the clips in each RD3 folder as the others in the folder if there are more than one are the same as the others. I think?
 
Russ, Yes, I know what you are trying to do... Which would be a nice option/fix for adobe to work on for when importing .R3D's... but typically I will load in an entire folder, which results in having a lot of clips with "_002", "_003" & so on... What I do is once all the clips have been loaded I "CTRL" Click all the clips that are not "_001" & delete them simultaneously this can take a little bit of time depending on how many takes/clips you load in, but sure as heck beats loading in each take manually...
 
You only need to import the first file in each set of spanned clips, files that have _001 at the end. After Effects will recognize if other files are in the same folder and will make the file the proper length.
 
Thank you guys, this helps me a lot. I have a few ideas now to try and some to give up on for now until Adobe figures out a way to know you only want the one clip per RD3.
now if I could only get this warp stabilization to do 50 clips at once.
 
Russ, Do you encounter render failures when applying the stabilization to multiple clips (at once?)
If so, please log a bug. Ado

Personally, I encountered issues when applying the stabilizer to 20+ R3D clips in Premiere and I have logged a bug on this.
However, feedback from real world users produces the best results :) And feedback from multiple users is even better. if you have issues, please log a bug! :)
 
Russ Fill said:
Thank you Angelo for your info, Im trying to import all the clips from the REDmag with out having to import each file just the clips and also just one of the clips in each RD3 folder as the others in the folder if there are more than one are the same as the others. I think?
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Tony Rudenko said:
Russ, Yes, I know what you are trying to do... Which would be a nice option/fix for adobe to work on for when importing .R3D's... but typically I will load in an entire folder, which results in having a lot of clips with "_002", "_003" & so on... What I do is once all the clips have been loaded I "CTRL" Click all the clips that are not "_001" & delete them simultaneously this can take a little bit of time depending on how many takes/clips you load in, but sure as heck beats loading in each take manually...
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Russ and Tony - in case it's not clear. The other R3D files in the same folder are not "the same" as the first R3D file! They are sequentially numbered chunks of a longer clip, and should not be deleted or separated from the first one, or you will truncate your longer clips!

R3D "aware" application file browsers such as Redcine-X and Premiere Pro etc, will automatically join the numbered R3D files into one clip for editing, grading etc. But non-R3D software such as Finder/Explorer sees the separate chunks as separate files.
 
Wes I have tried many different setups on this and even tried to Precompose all the clips and just apply the warpstabilizer to them but no results. Its starting to look like I may have to do each clip or try to break them in to bunches.
Im trying to stabilize about 100 aerials clips to get a nice smooth look but all I seem to get is a lot of rubbery looking stuff right when I seem to need the stabilization the most. Im starting to dial back some of the defalt settings and that is starting to work but still not the best results I have seen from the warp stabilizer from situations in the past. And to just through another bug in to it. It seems that my camera had a corrupt frame every now and then to bugger the warp stabilizer analyzation process so as I said looks like Ill be woking one by one on these clips to get them to look as great as I know they can.
Any help out there will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
russ
Lucky for me this is a project that has some time before delivery... unlike most.
 
Cory Petkovsek said:
Use finder or explorer to search for *_001.r3d. Drag all of the found clips to the project panel.
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Dogh!!! Or you could do that I suppose!!! :001_tt2:

Wish I had tought of that one, Thanks for the tip!!! ;)
 
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