• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Color coding glitch

  Posted by Mitch Jacobson on February 1, 2010 at 6:44 pm

  Fellow Listers, I wanted to share a glitch I experienced last week with the color coding of sequences.

  I have a color coding scheme I am using and my master sequence is red. The clips in the sequence were also color coded individually as blue and green.

  While discussing the project with the producers, I noticed as the sequence changed by itself to green and all the clips also changed to green. The names of all the clips in the sequence also changed to the name of the sequence. Revealing the clips in the finder showed that they were still connected to the original clips.

  Weird connections between clips came up. I renamed the music track to it’s rightful name in the browser and it, in turn, changed several of the video clip names to the music track. I changed the color of the sequence to purple and all the clips in the sequence changed to purple.

  I trashed preferences, etc…Since all of the clips played down with the right footage and only the naming and color code was off, I finished the spot, media managed it and changed the clips to match the file names in the media managed version. Everything behaved as expected after that.

  Anybody else seen this?

  Client System: MacPro Dual Quadcore 3Ghtz/ 7 gigs RAM/ GTech Firewire drives/ no capture card/Nvidia 4500 graphics card. MAC OSX 10.5.8/ FCP 7.01/ QT 7.6.4

  ///Mitch

  Mitch Jacobson
  Producer/Editor: Avid & FCP
  New York City

  Mitch Jacobson replied 16 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Michael Gissing

  February 1, 2010 at 10:06 pm

  Mitch, FCP 7 shipped with a bug that changed names of clips and sequence names. This bug was quickly fixed in 7.0.1

  You must have had this bug change the names (and therefore the color coding),before updating to 7.0.1
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  Mitch Jacobson

  February 1, 2010 at 10:45 pm

  Thanks, Michael but we are on 7.0.1 and have been since it came out. The only changes to 7.01 that were made was the DesktopVideoOut.component bug fix. Otherwise we must still have the bug.

  Mitch

  Mitch Jacobson
  Producer/Editor: Avid & FCP
  New York City
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  Rafael Amador

  February 2, 2010 at 5:00 am

  Hi Mitch,
  Try deleting the “constant frames’ render and run DiskWarrior.
  rafael

  http://www.nagavideo.com
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  Mitch Jacobson

  February 3, 2010 at 4:16 pm

  Thanks! Will do.

  Mitch

  Mitch Jacobson
  Producer/Editor: Avid & FCP
  New York City

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