Using Alteon, users can edit with small proxy media on their iPad to make creative decisions on the go. When users are ready to finish their projects on their Mac, they can relink to their original high-quality media and complete their project at the higher resolution in Final Cut Pro for MacOS.
**Steps and Workflow**
For this example, we will walk through editing 4k video using proxies on your iPad, then transferring and relinking them to your original media on MacOS.
**Upload Media to Alteon**
The first step is to upload media to Alteon. This can be done in a variety of ways. Users and upload media from:
• The Alteon website
The Alteon Accelerator app
iPhone or iPad
Sending an upload link to anyone, so they can upload footage
Once the media is on the platform, the user is ready to edit.
**Get Media on Your iPad**
On the iPad, open the Alteon application and navigate to the project that contains all the media you plan to use for editing.
For each clip you want to download, choose "Download Proxy" from the menu. When prompted to save, use the files interface to navigate to the "On my iPad" section.
There you can create a folder for your project media and save the media there.
You now have all the media ready to start your edit.
If users add more media later, you can repeat these steps to download the new material.
**Edit Setup**
Launch Final Cut Pro for iPad.
Create a new project.
Instead of the default timeline settings, choose "Custom". Make your timeline have the settings of your original media—in this case, 4k. This step will ensure that the project and any parameter changes will affect the final resolution for your project on MacOS. If the setting is left to automatic, then the timeline will be created at a smaller resolution and it will not translate correctly when relinking to the original media.
Then select your media that you save through files and start editing. Edit away until your project is complete.
**Transfer to MacOS**
When you are ready to work on Final Cut Pro for MacOS, go to the share option at the top of the iPad screen and select "Share".
Choose Final Cut Project and then choose a location to save the project among your files. You can choose to save with all the media, which will be small, or no media at all to be even faster. Saving it to an iCloud folder location will automatically save it to your Mac. Or you can choose another location and transfer the files manually using a storage device.
**Downloading Original Media**
In your browser, go to the Alteon project that contains the media for your project. Select the media you want to download, relink with Final Cut Pro and choose "Download". Once complete, have all the media in a single folder to make relinking media fast and simple.
**Open on MacOS**
When you have the project on MacOS, double click the project to open in Final Cut Pro. The application will prompt you to choose a location to save your Final Cut Pro library.
Once your project is open in Final Cut Pro, you can select all the clips you want to relink to their originals.
Choose "Relink File > Original Media" in Final Cut Pro.
Choose "Locate All" in the dialog.
Navigate to the folder that contains the media that you downloaded.
Once you navigate to the folder Final Cut Pro, relink dialog will show that it has matched all the files you are trying to relink (if they were all downloaded).
Select "Choose" and then "Relink Files", and now all the files will be connected to the original media at full resolution.
You can now finish your edit and export at the highest quality possible.
**File Formats**
An important note on this workflow is the file formats. For Final Cut Pro to easily relink all media to different files, the original file and the files to be relinked must have the same file extension. This allows FCP to easily find all matching files.
The workflow described above works with files that are originally recorded as .mp4 files. Alteon creates proxy files that are also .mp4, so the relink in FCP will work well for more than one file.
The same workflow can work with other files types, but with a different time-consuming step. When relinking on MacOS Final Cut Pro, the user will need to select and relink each file one at a time.