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2 sequences with same name screwed me! what causes it?
hi
I had a sequence open and i started working with it. i noticed i then had 2 tabs with the same name. and after spending about an housr building soemthing inside it, i closed the tab on what i though was the redundant one, and when i dragged that sequence from my browserto my canvas, all the stuff i built WAS GONE!
what the f is that? an where in the maunual does it say anything about two timelines with same name? doesnt this stuff get saved somewhere?
so waht makes that happen, and how can i avoid it
g5 fcp studio 5.0.4
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5 Replies
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I don’t know what caused it, but the solution would be to not name sequences the same thing.
Look in your AUTOSAVE VAULT.
Shane Ross
Alokut Productions
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Check any other projects you may have had open. You may have another sequence with the same name there that contains your work.
This trips of some people used to working on other NLE’s that can only have one project open at a time.Other than that, check your Autosave Vault.
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thanx for your replys
the problem is, i did not make the sequence with the same name. it just appeared. or rather a tab for it did
and then later, i had 3 timelines with the same name, or to be more specific, i had 3 tabs on my timline window, each referring to the same sequence. it seems that each time i cut and paste some clips from my main sequence, it would pop up a new tab, and if i clicked on each tab, the render bars were different colors
could this be some weird way that FCP deals with different image sizes, as this show is a mix of dv, jpegs, and qt movies (off the web as markers)?
i hate this when i cant figure out wahts going on, I did not want to get on this system without some training, but the edit system we used to have as our main died, and no one wants to spring for a new card so i am sorta stumblin around…not my best show.
thanx again
bee eph
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Its hard to figure out what exactly is going on, but this is starting to sound like you have unwittingly created nests. If you are unfamiliar with this function in FCP, you need to read about it using the FCP Help.
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john
guess yer online!
say i have a nested clip in my main sequence. or even a sequence as a clip for purposes of nesting.
Out of convenience i decide to do more pre compositing in that same nest. in the process of this, i not only bring in clips from bins and browser but also cut and paste from my main sequence some clips that are nested from the same sequence i am currently in.
in otherwords, i put moves on stills earlier in my nest or sub sequence, and now i have those moves later on the same sequence,would this be what keeps generating new tabs that refer to the same sequence? in otherwords, everytime i put a pre nested clip back into the sequence its nested in, only later, it pops a new tab up?
my re using of pre build or nested sequences come from my edit days,as it was always a pain to keep track of where are my precomps were, so i tried to put them all in the same timeline. if this is not good lemme know and i’ll change my evel ways!
bee eph
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