“Disabling” video of clip but not audio

[Robin S. kurz]

YouTube is your friend.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=batch+syncing+with+pluraleyes

[Neil Gowan]

[Robin S. Kurz] “No offence, but it sounds to me like you jumped into FCP X completely unprepared and are missing a lot of the basics.”

Robin, I keep coming back to this and wondering what it is that made you think this. I certainly acknowledge that I have much to learn in FCP X (I feel like one of those directors who insist on editing their own stuff but never really learn efficiencies and shortcuts so they take way longer than an editor would to perform the same edits). Cutting a feature-length doc with it as such a newbie may have been a mistake…but I’m in the middle of it now.

I just have to know if there are specific steps in my workflow that I’ve described that made you think, “this guy’s crazy…I never would have done it that way.” If there are, what am I doing wrong?

[Robin S. kurz]

[Neil Gowan] “you think, “this guy’s crazy…”

Well, I wouldn’t go quite THAT far. 😀

I wasn’t suggesting you were doing anything wrong per se, just that by what you describe of your project, with e.g. all the compound clips, it strikes me you may still be missing the needed experience (and maybe said knowledge) to be tackling such a seemingly large project. (which is not to say that *I* haven’t been guilty of that in the past ;-D) But since you have apparently done your best with the homework, you at least get an A for effort. It just initially sounded like you may not even have done that, so I apologise for being presumptuous.

What you are doing “wrong” or how it could be done better is near impossible for me to say without actually sitting in front of it. Otherwise any and everything I suggest (which could be any number of things) may or may not be applicable or even useful. Therefore potentially redundant and/or pointless and also a waste of both of our time. Again, no offence meant. And for all I know, you may in fact be doing what’s best for that particular project. But then, as I’ve said, having what sounds like an inordinate amount of compounds, suggests you may at least be overthinking or “misusing” some of the workflow options.

Either way, I hope you find the best possible workflow for the project. There are an amazing amount of organisational options and tools in FCP X that can be eye-poppingly useful for one project and at best mildly useful for others. Experience and constant fiddling are your best friends. 😉

[Neil Gowan]

Thanks Robin. Helpful insights.

One of my biggest challenges is isolation. Working at home has it’s advantages, but rubbing shoulders with other professionals is what I miss most about working in a studio every day.

I guess that’s why they created the Cow! 😉

[Robin S. kurz]

[Neil Gowan] “Working at home has it’s advantages, but rubbing shoulders with other professionals is what I miss most about working in a studio every day.”

I hear ya. Feel pretty much the same.

[Craig Alan]

James,

I get your original feature request and get the two options available as of this update. But if you reveal in browser and then replace edit, you are going upstream right? That is any changes you made to the clip are now lost. A compound clip would work but liters your browser with extra clips that need to be named and organized and further, unless you are careful with assigning them as a new master, any changes you make to one use ripples to all others. My feature request would be to allow a save to browser of any clip without making it a compound. And a reveal in timeline of any clip in the browser. I’ve reached a comfort zone with basic editing in FC but when I get past that and need to create layers (post track work flow), I start to get uncomfortable or at least still wonder what the best work flow would be.

I’m not a full time editor and it just feels at times that I spend more time managing FC organization than I’d like. Compounds do seem to be the answer to many of these needs but the parent child thing feels overly complex to me. Most of the time when I create one I’d really prefer if it wash;t saved to the browser as its own mini-timeline.

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.

[Robin S. kurz]

[Craig Alan] “That is any changes you made to the clip are now lost.”

That’s what “Paste Attributes” is for.