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Combining 2 sequences
Hi.
I have been working on a piece that I broke into a couple sections. I edited on into one “project” and a second section in another “project”. Now I want to combine the 2, but when I copy one project’s timeline I get this message: You are combining audio and video clips outside the primary storyline.
“You are combining audio and video clips outside the primary storyline.The audio duration will be modified to conform to video frame boundaries”
Which it in fact did, when I pasted into the other project. Any other way to connect the 2 of them, or am I doing something wrong? I guess I don’t really understand the “Primary Storyline” stuff…db
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I should also mention, In each sequence, I was working with compound clips which were slowing me down, (also why I was breaking projects up) and I broke the clips apart…
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I may be misunderstanding of what you’re saying, but I get the impression that you started each project with a different setting for video and audio. If I’m correct, then it would be important to start each project with the same single clip to be sure that the settings adopted will be identical. Then, once you put other material into that storyline you can delete the original format-setting clip if desired.
But back to the problem at hand; if I’m right about one project having a setting different from the other then I could understand the audio time mis-match. Did you by chance begin one of the projects with a still? That might, maybe cause the audio problem in that if you open a still in the Browser into it’s own timeline (no project) and start editing, you’ll discover on export that the sound, which you heard all along, won’t be there. It seems the still didn’t establish a frame-rate for the audio to lock onto to. Or, some theory along those lines. I’m best-guessing here.
Instead of just pasting one project into the other, trying pasting-as-a-connected clip (in the menu somewhere).
Just throwing out some thoughts here.
Don
NewsVideo.com
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Thanks. I’m not sure if that was the problem. The message I mentioned comes up when I select All and Copy the project, not when I’m trying to paste it…So I think it has something to do with the fact that I had compound clips and then broke them apart and changed some things…
Still don’t know solution, though…
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Have you tried taking all clips within that project and placing in one single compound then copying and pasting in the target project.
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Eric,
Yes, I tried that. I get this same message when I try to compound the clips: You are combining audio and video clips outside the primary storyline.The audio duration will be modified to conform to video frame boundaries.
When I do it, it the clips get shifted out of sync.
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I can’t see your timeline, but my guess is that you are trying to copy and paste within a compound clip. When you change the media within the clip, it doesn’t change the length of the compound clip containing the material.
Compound clips are tricky. I recommend using them sparingly, and if you ever take a long compound clip and slice it up with the blade tool, then you should break apart the pieces back into their un-compounded parts, otherwise it can bloat your project size and slow the application down.
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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.Mark Morache
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Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
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Hi Mark,
The interviews in this piece are compound clips, created via “sync”, and Plural Eyes, as I was using double audio. I have tried to break apart all of the compound clips in my project, but I’m still getting the message…Any other tips out there??
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Yeah.. I’m stumped. Perhaps if you posted a still or two of your timelines.
I’d take a look at the project settings for each of your timelines.
The fact that you get the error when you try to copy makes me think it’s not a settings problem, however since I don’t know what your timeline looks like I can’t say for sure.
I wonder why it has any issues with combining audio and video clips outside the primary storyline. Anything outside the storyline would be attached to something on the primary storyline right?
When you copy, are you using control-A to select all the clips in the timeline?
If it is having a problem because there is more audio than video, can you put a dummy clip on the end of the sequence you’re copying so there is more video than audio? I don’t know why that would make a difference, but it wouldn’t hurt trying it.
I wonder if you did something oddball when you first made your sequence and you’re paying for it now?
Can you copy part of your timeline? Try copying the first half. If that works, try copying the second half. Keep narrowing the range down until you find the culprit. Do you see anything unusual when you expand all of your audio for the entire timeline? Perhaps some hidden L-cut is messing you up? I’m grasping at straws.
Good luck
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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.Mark Morache
FCPX/FCP7/Xpri/Avid
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
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Hey Mark,
I actually just tried what you suggested and IT WORKED! It looks like the first few frames of the project were sort of pushed to the left and outside of the storyline (as it said)…By dragging it to the right a bit and adding some space to the beginning of the project, it is now able to copy….Thank you so much for taking the time to help me out!
David
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Glad you figured it out. This program has some very strange anomalies. It’s pretty easy to run across some land mines if you don’t know about them.
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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.Mark Morache
FCPX/FCP7/Xpri/Avid
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
https://fcpx.wordpress.com
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