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FCP footage error in timeline
Hey guys and gals. Been trying to figure this one out on my own but haven’t been able to find out the answer. I’m baffled.
I’m currently editing a wedding. I’ve noticed something strange happening where after searching through the raw footage, creating a subclip or a section I like (in this case a slow tilt down of a wedding dress) and placing it in the timeline.
It initially appears in the timeline ok, but a few clips (not all) end up being a different shot that I didn’t even create a subclip of. Or I’ll render a section that looks normal in the timeline, and it will come out with completely different shots (albeit from the same project of course) than I had selected.
Below is a link (hope linking is ok here) to a snapshot from my time line.
1st file (original_clip): the shot I placed in the time line (in this case the wedding dress.
2nd file (secret_clip): without moving my cursor point I drag an edit it and shows the incorrect footage (the girl in the photo is 5 or 10 mins earlier in the footage). This is the underlying footage it thinks it is for some reason. Any ideas?http://www.renaissancerampages.com/Creative_Cow/original_clip.jpg
http://www.renaissancerampages.com/Creative_Cow/secret_clip.jpg
thanks
Josh
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3 Replies
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Turn on your timecode displays in the canvas and put up the same shots with the TC. Don’t use the tool to resize the clip as it changes the canvas display.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop” -
Hi Tom. Thanks for responding, I appreciate it. First, that does work as a workaround. Which is awesome. That way I can at least cycle through clips and still make basic edits without looking at the wrong footage everytime I try to make an edit.
In the larger sense, I still have the problems in two other areas though. When I close final cut and open back up, 1 in every 5 times-ish one of the clips is the wrong clip in the timeline completely. In other words it shows up even when not using the tool, and if I render it renders the incorrect footage and not the correct footage.
So your first suggestion took care of half the problem (and I’m super grateful), in that I can continue to at least work on the project, however I’ll still scratching my head on what’s making the mistake. Don’t remember seeing it the last few years of editing, but then again, I almost never edit with DV-DVCPRO ntsc (I usually edit HDV).
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Now it looks like every clip is doing it. While I have one sequence of subclips rendered in the timeline, when I export it’s totally not correct.
It looks like each clip when exported is roughly 10-30 seconds than the actual in and out points I originally set on the time code.
However if I double click in the Browser they view normally in the Viewer. And if I simply hit play in the timeline, it plays normal. I’m baffled.
I tried basic stuff like trashing the preferences, rebooting the computer, copy and pasting to another sequence, etc… I even opened the project file on a different computer. Same problem (that one worries me).
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