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Unlinking and Relinking Media and Clips
Unlinking and Relinking Media and Clips
Unlinking Media from Clips in the Clip Library
About Unlinking and Relinking Media and Clips
The
clip library contains a suite of tools for making different versions
of a project— Unlink, Relink, Reformat, and Recapture.
These tools allow you to separate the media of a clip from its metadata,
optionally reformat the metadata of an unlinked clip to another
resolution, recapture the associated media, and then relink the
metadata to the newly captured media.
You can use these capabilities for a number
of purposes, for example:
- Create
multiple masters by working on a project at one resolution and then
reformatting it to another. You can speed up your interaction within
the application by working on the lower resolution version. You
could, for example, shoot in HD or film, finish the project in SD in Flint,
and output in either resolution.
- Work
on proxies instead of the actual media during the course of the
project. You can unlink the media from a clip but retain the proxies. When
the project is complete, recapture the media at the required resolution,
relink, and output as the finished version. Working on proxies provides
an improved level of interactivity, particularly with projects based on
high-definition media. Also, less space on the framestore is used
during the project.
- Replace
shots that were captured incorrectly, for example, if frames became
corrupted during capture.
- Replace
shots that were worked on outside Flint after being captured.
For example, replace shots that were colour corrected using an image
processor after the original capture.
- Move
clips to a new facility. Unlink the media from clip metadata, transfer
the metadata to the new facility, recapture the material at the
new facility, and then relink the recaptured material to the clips.
- Unlink
media from a timeline prior to archiving at the end of a project,
the result being a much smaller archive. The media would need to be
recaptured and relinked to the timeline when restoring the archive.
- Free
up space on the framestore. Media is removed from the framestore
when unlinked from a clip, given that no other clips are referencing
that media. Depending on the way you manage clips on a project, this
may be a feasible method of gaining framestore space.