Disappearing Patch Panel Sources

[Will Fitzpatrick]

I just ran into this problem and took a look here. I’m not very computer savvy and my F7 and F8 keys are doing desktop stuff. Hmm, I just thought maybe I could go to my Final Cut preferences and have a look, but anyway, for now, that didn’t work but I did capture a screenshot. Now I have no idea how to post it, but I’ll try to figure that out right now.

Okay, after a few seconds of consideration, I won’t figure that out now, and I’ll go try to check my Final Cut short cut keys or mac preferences or something. I’m new to Final Cut, and the source patch things disappearing is a real ball buster. It happened when I was trying to find the match frame from a bunch of video only that had been edited and bring in the audio for them. I was marking the clips in the timeline, pressing F to match frame, and making the overwrite and then I changed all the audible levels of the now linked sound clips- but somewhere along the way I might have tried removing marks from the timeline with Option-X, but could have hit Control-X or something; anyway, when I looked up they were gone – and with them, my hopes and dreams of editing.

;o)

[Will Fitzpatrick]

Okay, I went through and reset all my Final Cut shortcut keys so F7 and F8 “set audio destination” 1 and 2 respectively. After pressing the button combo – nothing happened. My video source dealy is still there, so after failing to get my audio sources back, I tried clearing the video source pressing Shift-F6 to see what it would do; it disconnects the video source just as if you clicked on it to disconnect it. Clearing it – does not make it disappear (apparently).

So following the advice and remaining dumbfounded, I kept on clicking around hitting F7-1 and F8-2 to no avail. The source tabs remain lost….. (Forever?)

The future is looking dim my friends; but after rebooting Final Cut, I’m sure the source tabs will return.

I would still like to know how I did it and how I can undo it.

[Tatiane Alencar]

Wow wow wow Andy! that was a clever one 🙂 tks bunches

[Mike Jones]

Just in case anyone reads this in the future and none of the above options works, I had the orginal problem the poster had and I couldn’t get audio tracks 1 and 2(viewer side) to patch into audio tracks 1 and 2 output unless there was already audio on tracks one and two output. For some reason, when I went from mono on output audio tracks 1 and 2 back to stereo, had to clean up some audio so I split them up, whalla…I got the patches back allowing me to output where there was not audio already on tracks 1 and 2.

So, if you deselect a stereo pair of tracks and modify – uncheck stereo pair, after cleaning up the audio on each respective tracks, make sure to re-link them under modify.

[James Lane]

Had same issue today in FCP 6.0.6. Started kicking in after nesting sequences where external audio is sync’d with image. Solved it by simply dragging a clip into the master timeline that had native audio attached. Tabs magically reappeared!

[Chris Conti]

Just had this problem. Copied all the clips to a new sequence and sources showed up again.