“Disabling” video of clip but not audio

[Robin S. kurz]

[James Ewart] “For my… seriously flawed personality”

Ah yes. Wouldn’t want to do without the superfluous snark.

[James Ewart] “it would be logical if one has a “detach audio” command to also have an “attach audio” command.”

Then there’s the ⌥G command that does exactly that.

[James Ewart]

Can you talk me though that in more detail please? I have had great success syncing with FCPX but much smaller amounts of footage at a time so have not had to use pluralise for a while.
I guessFCPX just can’t handle your volume?

Thanks

James

[Craig Alan]

Could u put the clip on a lower layer

Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.

[Craig Alan]

Except u end up with a compound clip in your browser and I keep hearing reports that too many compounds can slow things down and even contribute to corruption. Not sure if that is the latest understanding but it gives me pause.

Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.

[James Ewart]

I keep asking myself why I want to do this anyway. Answer is invariably if I change my mind about something and simply want to go back but it’s too late to simply “undo”. If this is the case I think I am more inclined to use the two step fix mentioned by Robin Kurz earlier rather than making Compound Clips but it’s possible that yours and my Compound Clip paranoia is a result of bugs now long since fixed.

Incidentally I much prefer the compound clip solution to “nesting” in Legacy.

[Robin S. kurz]

[James Ewart] “I am more inclined to use the two step fix mentioned by Robin Kurz earlier rather than making Compound Clips”

Question is, why would you want a compound clip if a simple REPLACE does the trick? That only unnecessarily clutters your event with unneeded additional clips. And the whole “makes slow and unstable” thing is veeeery old. That applied to the OLD compounds that FCP had (until 10.0.6?). At least I haven’t heard or seen of it since. Especially since I just finished a project that had around *120* compounds in it…

[Robin S. kurz]

… and that event/project had a total running time of over 11 hours, too, btw. (spread across 50+ projects)

[James Ewart]

“Question is, why would you want a compound clip if a simple REPLACE does the trick?”

Forgive me but I wouldn’t. I was after a one step “reattach audio” solution and you suggested ⌥G.

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JE “it would be logical if one has a “detach audio” command to also have an “attach audio” command.”
RK “Then there’s the ⌥G command that does exactly that.”

But yes Reveal in Event Browser and Replace works fine.

[Neil Gowan]

[James Ewart] “Can you talk me though that in more detail please?”

You mean my workflow with PluralEyes?

I described it previously…did you have specific questions beyond this? :

I sync 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, then drop in corresponding audio clips, export xml, import in PluralEyes, sync, export xml, import back in FCP X.

[James Ewart]

Thanks.