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Marked favourite ranges disappear
When marking favourite ranges on a single clip, if you mark another range which say covers 2 previously marked ranges, these 2 ranges that were made first disappear from the browser and are replaced with the all encompassing range you marked last.
At a push I can kind of see the reasoning behind this, but then I don’t like being told by fcp….”now listen here this is the range I think you want”
Say you had clip of a interview that you were marking up. You mark 3 favourite sections of an answer, and also you decide to mark up the whole answer as well for reference….poof! there goes the 3 previouslymarked favourite ranges.
I realise I could just subclip using compounds, but was just trying to give the mark favourite routine a shot.
Any one else experiences this?
cheers,
Brendan
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I too can see the logic in that (after all, in/out point that overlap become “one selection” in most editing systems), and I don’t think FCP X is “telling” you how to do things, it’s just that every tool has its limitations.
You could use the “reject” marking, in addition to the “favorite” selection, which will give you a “red” selection, but that won’t give you an overlap either. Overlapping “Favorites”/”Rejects” will make “selections” that butt each other but be distinct from each other.
Another way to define overlapping selections is to create a compound clip of each selection. There is a discussion below re compound clips.
Another way is simply to drag each selection to another keyword collection.
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It is final cut defying it’s own logic personally I think.
Clips and parts of clips can be organised using keywords and as such the same clip / part of clips can exist in as many different key word collections as you want it to.
Not being able to use favourites to apply clips / or part of clips to multiple favourite collections is putting restrictions on what is supposed to be organisation without boundarys.
It’s no biggie personally, but seems rather restrictive if you were uaing the favourite option as your tool of choice.
Cheers,
Brendan
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A simple workaround to this issue is to simply duplicate the clip.
I’ve tried this method and it works.
If you duplicate the clip having already created a favorite range, unmark it before making another favorite selection.
Mark Dobson
Producer and Director
Alembic TV
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Favorites are favorite sections; they can’t really overlap or they all favorite. There are no star ratings, no more favorites or less favorites, or more favorite to him and not so favorite to them. That’s what keywords are for. They can overlap and be in multiple places at once, but they do all have to have the same name.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop” -
CHeers Mark,
Many thanks for the work around tip
Cheers,
Brendan
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