Finding repeated / duplicate clips on Timeline ?

[Lawrence Eaton]

I wonder if Timeline Index lists them?

Lawrence

[Robin S. kurz]

There is no “Show duplicate frames” functionality in X (yet), no. If you’re looking for duplicate FRAMES you’re out of luck. If just looking for duplicate CLIPS then the timeline index is your friend.

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[Fredy Schwerdtner]

hi Lawrence.

In fact it list them but does not say if there is duplicate clips or frames. I believe is could have a way of doing it specially for those, like me, who records long events and need to do some kind of chronological editing …. lol.

Anyway, thanks for having answered me.

Fredy.

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[Lawrence Eaton]

Fredy,
I believe there is a search field in timeline index and if you enter in the name of the clip it will filter and show how many times that clip is used. Clicking on each of the entries, in that list, will cause the play head to jump to the front of each.
Any help?

Lawrence

[Fredy Schwerdtner]

thanks Lawrence & Robin.

I did exactly as you said.

Thanks again.

Fredy.

iMac 2.7 GHz Intel 4 Core i5
16 GB memory

MacBook Pro 17″
2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
6GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

OS X 10.7.5
FCPX 10.0.8

[Noam Osband]

Has this been changed in 10.2 or is there still no show duplicate frames?

[Robin S. kurz]

If you have used media ranges showing, I don’t actually see how you could have dup frames, unless you did it on purpose.

– RK

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[Mike Warmels]

It’s very easy to have duplicate frames, or bits of a shot. Especially if you’re trimming (extending a shot) in the timeline. To see duplicate frames in your timeline is quite handy.

Now, I do understand that if you see something is used in the browser, you wouldn’t reuse it. But often I cut within a shot. If you’re trimming to finetune, it’s kinda nice to see where you ‘hit’ the previously used frames if you’re using the continuation of a shot after a cut away. The information is so detailed, the browser is not gonna help you there. Not in one glance.

So yeah, I’d certainly like the duplicate frames to show up in the timeline. And it’s a simple thing to programme, because this is just matching numbers/clip name/reel names…. All numbers…

[Scott Parker]

True enough. I’ve been using FCPX intensively for the past few months now and am always surprised by how many things I find frustrating that you’d think would be available in a good editing application, like DUPE DETECTION.

I’m having too many WTF moments with FCPX compared to my WOW moments.

[Noam Osband]

Scott, I feel ya’. I still enjoy the magnetic timeline and metadata stuff, so I’m sticking with it. I’m just hoping they make these basic changes…