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Match Frame/ match back frustrations
I’m a longtime FCP and Avid user. I love Final Cut, but there are some bugs here that are very annoying to me. As an editor, I’m constantly match framing back to my original clip, first from the timeline, then from the browser. Unfortunately, matching back from the viewer seems spotty at best. Never mind me creating subclips, I’d just like it to find my original clip. It seems like FCP is programmed with the worst search function in the world. Google can give you 10,000 results for a word from a trillion websites in half a second. Final Cut can’t find my clip because, uh, maybe it’s buried in a folder in the browser. Come on. This is a vital tool for editors and I really hope they fix this function. Maybe it’s me. Maybe I’m doing something wrong? I hit F, I hit Command+Option F, I have my buttons mapped to reveal master clip, to show match frame. Nothing works.
FCP 7.0.3
Mac 2 x 2.4 Ghz Quad-Core
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“f” doesn’t work? you should be able to place your CTI on the timeline, choose your clip and just hit “f”.
Your original media, with attached audio and such should pop up in your viewer window.
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no I’m not trying to match back to the Viewer, that works fine, hitting ‘f’ or the ‘show match frame’ button. The problem is matching back to the Browser from the viewer.
Thanks
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Are you using several project files? FCP will match frame to the clip in the Viewer fine…and then to the bin if you press SHIFT F. But if the footage is in one project, and the cut in another…the link is broken and you can’t match frame. Doesn’t work across projects.
If you match to a subclip, and want to see the master clip it came from, just REMOVE SUBCLIP LIMITS and you then have the full clip.
Is it not as good as Avid in this respect? Nope, it is not. Avid wins there, hands down.
Shane
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Sweet, didn’t know the shift-f command, def. better than “reveal in finder” and dragging it back in!
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Hmm..
So is there a way to be able to work on the same project on two computers? (home/office)
It seems to me with one project I was able to mark up my clips happily at work, then email the project to myself at home and continue marking clips and have everything match frameable.
Once the ‘clip in timeline’ master clip relationship has been broken, is there any way to reassociate them?
thanks
John Hepworth
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