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hard and fast rules for track lock, track enable, and track patch on off?
hey again
i am still getting up to speed on FCP so i have not quite got my mind around some of this.
Particularly, are there any hard and fast rules as to when to use the track locks, the track enable, and connecting or breaking the patches.
It seems sometimes disabling is enough, it seems other times disabling and breaking the patch, and then at other times i have to lock the tracks
thanx again in advance
bee eph
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Hmm, there’s no hard and fast rules, but I can tell you the situations I most use these “features”.
I lock the tracks mostly when I’m editing audio. I have the music in 2 or 4 separate audio tracks, separate from anything else in the timeline. I can then lock all the video and audio tracks except those two or four tracks that contain the tunes. I can now ripple delete and cut the music away to my heart and ears’ content without moving any of the other audio or video in my timeline.
You should unpatch your tracks when you want to add video only from a file that contains both audio & video from the viewer to the timeline. You should also unpatch the audio if you are trying to add audio to a disabled track, it won’t work. If you need the audio in there, then you must enable the audio track that is disabled.
have you figured out auto select yet? What system are you coming from? Does any of this help?
I’m sure others will chime in with much better uses.
Jeremy
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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.04 <> Kona 2
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hey jeremy
i had figured out aito select, but now i forgot it 🙂 I used discreet edit 6 years, before that avid media100, d vision CMX RCA etc etc
thanx for yer reply, i am doin g a lot of what you said already
bee eph
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Cool.
How can I liken auto select to Media 100? The two times that auto select really shines for me is when you are copying and pasting from other timelines. You set the auto-select boxes on which tracks you want the copied clip or series of clips to go. ALso, when I’m doing the ole control-v edit, auto select comes in ultra handy as I’m only chopping the track or tracks that are auto-selected.
I came from Media 100 myself, and it’s hard to beat FCPs interface once you learn the ins & outs.
Good luck bee eph.
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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.04 <> Kona 2
ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 4105 Fibre
OS 10.4.2 <> QT 7.0.3
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