Does having audio tracks above the Storyline make anyone else feel funny?

[Tom Wolsky]

The audio normally goes below the primary storyline. When you connect audio that’s the behavior. How did all those clips get up there? When you break apart connected clips the audio goes below the primary?

All the best,

Tom

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[Robert Bracken]

I have no idea how the audio got up there. It’s user error but I can’t figure out how that happened.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Drag them back down, no biggie.

[David Battistella]

It’s a feature not a bug. 🙂

I like this because it’s easy to associate the audio with the video that is in sync. BEFORE everything would stack above and below the AUDIO VIDEO LINE. Now the audio stays associated to the picture making it easy to find and adjust.

I would like to see and option to “display as legacy” though as a view mode, where FCP X timeline preset could just place things in a traditional way.

This might be easier for subtitling and versioning and other things, but compound clips are going to do that in a very powerful way as well.

David

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[Jeremy Garchow]

I think is a pretty decent way to think about how FCPx works is that it really relies on vertical clip relationships, and less on horizontal. The horizontal relationship is user defined by compound clips, more so by secondary storylines (and of course the primary storyline). If the connected clips aren’t in one of those, then it really is about the vertical relationships.

This is why I think many people might be having a bit of trouble. It is certainly different, but after working with it for a bit, it does make sense. It will of course require fine tuning.

Jeremy

[Mark Morache]

Robert… I’m wondering less about the audio above the video, and wondering more about why you are editing with gap in your main storyline. Dude, you’ve got a magnetic timeline, use it.

The advantage of the magnetic timeline comes from placing all your “a-roll” in the magnetic timeline, then attaching the “b-roll” and extra audio to those clips in the storyline.

I generally start with soundbites and narration track, then build my stories around that. In FCX, I’ve tried putting the narration in the primary storyline and using a secondary storyline for the “b-roll”.

This makes logical sense. I’ve also tried attaching the narration to the end of the previous soundbite, so I could put my “b-roll” in the primary storyline. Neither way is perfect, but they both work.

I’m going to start a new thread about these two strategies.

Meanwhile… audio over video? I just drag the clip down under the others, even if my need to do that is so 2010!

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