“Disabling” video of clip but not audio

[Charlie Austin]

[Neil Gowan] “and there must be some better way.

Anybody know an answer?”

Actually, if I’m understanding you now… you want to disable the video while you screen/cut up clips, then re-enable it for the cut? If that’s the case, just turn off the Video role in the index. No need to create a new one, as all video gets this role by default. If you need it just for individual bits in a cut or something then yes, creating a dedicated role(s) is the war to go…

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[Scott Witthaus]

It would be nice, however, so select a bunch of video clips and a bunch of corresponding external audio clips and go “fetch” and it does more than one at a time. I don’t think the OP got a definitive answer on this. I am interested as I have material coming in today that will involve a couple hundred audio and DSLR video clips….and did I read right that Plural Eyes can do this?

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[James Ewart]

I know one can work round this (reveal in finder and drop in to timeline again) but the inability to ‘reattach audio’ is something I have never understood. I am guessing there is a very good reason why you can’t… anyone know?

[Neil Gowan]

Not sure how PluralEyes would perform with hundreds of clips…anybody tried it? I drop in one day’s worth of footage at a time, which is about 4-5 hours/5-6 reels/10-15 video clips with 5-10 audio files. My workflow (which is think is typical) is to drop in raw video clips, followed by corresponding audio clips, export xml, import in PluralEyes, sync, export xml, import back in FCP X.

[Bret Williams]

Same reason with don’t have a lot of features. And when you discover that reason, please share! 🙂

[Bret Williams]

You can hide the open areas of the inspector that you don’t use too often like Color, Distort and Crop for example. Then you won’t have to scroll down to get to the Compositing portion where opacity is located. The setting should remain until relaunch.

[Robin S. kurz]

[James Ewart] “I know one can work round this (reveal in finder and drop in to timeline again) “

Reveal in Finder?

[James Ewart] “but the inability to ‘reattach audio’ is something I have never understood.”

How can you not reattach?? Select, ⇧F, ⌥R… done. What more are you looking for… even less steps?

Otherwise you can just as well make a compound clip of both, which is essentially what every single clip in your event is anyway.

[James Ewart]

Apologies and thank you for picking up on that I meant “Reveal in Event Browser” .

For my (as you have previously already established) seriously flawed personality it would be logical if one has a “detach audio” command to also have an “attach audio” command.

[Neil Gowan]

Actually, I think this may be the heart of “my issue.” I really want to be able to re-attach an audio clip.

Say I have a b-roll shot, and want the ambient sound, but there’s a dog barking at the point where I want the visual of the clip. I want to detach audio and slip to better in/out points, but I don’t want to have that just dangle as a connected clip. Re-attach clip would be great. Cleaner, safer.

[James Ewart]

At the end of the day though what I have found is a lot of the time the audio adjustments you want to make can be made by simply expanding the audio. And then collapsing. It does require a slightly different thought process but most of the time it’s all you need.