Resetting/Relinking RMD's inside Final Cut once Material is Already Edited

[Manfred Lopez]

I need help! I was handed a large, already-edited project where the RMD were not created in RedCine and instead were created by Final Cut Pro. So now none of the RMD's update in Final Cut Pro if they are altered in RedCine. The advise i'm getting is to erase the RMD's and re-save/re-generate them in RedCine and re-import all the footage into Final Cut Pro and start over... but this way it would take forever to re-edit everything. Is there a simpler solution? Is there a way to manually replace the RMD's in all the raw footage so Final Cut Pro and RedCine can share them and re-link them to already edited footage?

For further explanation of what I'm talking about, please see 3:43 into this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffvuu52QZjo

 

[Mathieu Ghekiere]

I don't know if this works, but thinking out loud, if you export a Project and Event XML first, maybe it would relink and you won't have to re-edit?

 

[Manfred Lopez]

Thanks for the suggestion. But I think I finally found a way:

1. First you should quit Final Cut Pro.

2. Then you trash all the RMD's in the original RED RAW footage folders.

3. Next open RedCine X and re-generate RMD's with the 'Save RMD' command.

4. Find the Final Cut Pro session library on the hard drive (it's the one with the slanted four purple star squares icon) and option-click to select 'Show Package Contents'.

5. Locate one or two folders inside the relevant project folder: 'Original Media' and possibly 'Transcoded Media'.

6. The 'Original Media' folder should have folders with the alfa-numerical names of all the clips used. Inside each of these there should be two alias files: References to the original R3D file and the RMD file. Trash both of these without trashing the folder they're in (the one with the alfa-numerical name of the clip).

7. If a 'Transcoded Media' folder exists, then trash the contents there as well. Final Cut Pro will use these files in place of the original R3D's if they are left there.

8. Open Final Cut Pro again. All footage will show up as unlinked. Re-link all footage with the 'Relink Footage' command.

Final Cut Pro will finally create new R3D aliases with the correct version of RMD files. Everything works perfectly again between both programs without having touched the edited timelines!
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[Mathieu Ghekiere]

Good to known for other people as well! Thanks!