Layered audio files not linking to correct clip

[Jeremy Garchow]

How are you exporting?

What do you do when you edit it?

Are you then making new media in your “editing” program?

If not, why export in the first place?

[James Lackleter]

I send to compressor and export as wav where I use third party audio programs to denoise, compress, dereverb, etc. I import that WAV back into FCPX under a new name, and FCPX is confusing the clip names, relinking them in the timeline with a new clip.

Just to clarify, I’m creating new files, that’s whats so strange. This has caused some of the clips to go offline. Also some of the original clips are in the timeline under the original name, yet are in fact not the original clip but the clip that was altered. When I do reveal in event, it brings me to what FCPX names the original clip, I then do reveal in finder, where it brings me to the altered clip. This is a serious problem if audio can not be layered in the timeline.

[John Fishback]

Try shortening the new file by a frame or two, then import. X is probably looking at the metadata and it matches the original clip. Change the length and, hopefully, it will be unique and accepted as such by X.

John

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[James Lackleter]

John Thanks, that works fine. You can also change to an AIFF instead and wav, and that’ll work. But only once, because if you want to import it a third time it confuses the AIFF.

Also I just called FCPX who was completely stumped. This program is just an embarrassment

[Charlie Austin]

[james Lackleter] “Also I just called FCPX who was completely stumped. This program is just an embarrassment”

How’d you do that? I didn’t know FCPX took phone calls. 🙂 FWIW, I think X just defaults to the “automatically relink modified files” setting that one used to be able to turn off in FCP old. Maybe a good feature request?

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[James Lackleter]

They don’t seem to care when you request things in my experience, they just defend the program and refuse to accept it’s problems. This is just such a fundamental basic that is missing.