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Roles Aren’t Working
Im working on a music video and roles don’t appear to be working.
I have the…
Music Role – The Actual Song
Video Role – The clips for the music video
Dialog Role – The scratch audio from the camera
I uncheck the dialog role, as i obviously don’t want it exporting with the rest of the video, but it doesn’t work. The video that is exported through Compressor still plays EVERYTHING.
I tried exporting through final cut as an h.264, using the roles selector thing and it worked but there is no control over anything…
Am i doing something wrong? It plays back correctly in the timeline (no dialog track), it just doesn’t export right.
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See here: https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/344/6097
Turning off a role doesn’t disable the clips. You have to disable the clips first.
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Thanks. I wish they would of just allowed unchecking the role to be the way to turn off that role on export.
So how would one go about exporting a project through compressor without having to export individual roles and create a new project and adding the desired roles back together to avoid the undesired role?
15″ MacBook Pro Quad Core i7 2.0GHz
1TB G-RAID
Final Cut Pro X
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You have to disable the clips. Use the role to choose them all, then disable (v).
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Shane – I totally hear you. “Technically” Roles are for media stems which means if you want to export differently you need to export with roles options. But send a feature request to Apple as it will make Roles much more flexible and like tracks. Or better yet call them and ask why it didn’t work the way it was expected and make the feature request on the phone.
However, it is pretty painless to disable the clips based on the role, but there is a trick to it. You have to filter the clips in the timeline index based on the Role name. See here:
You don’t need to switch your focus to the timeline to disable clips, just hit V in the timeline index.
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T. Payton
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Sweeeet. Thats a great tip. Thank you!
15″ MacBook Pro Quad Core i7 2.0GHz
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Final Cut Pro X
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Ok,
So when i go to disable the scratch audio in the clips that are labeled as “Dialogue” role, i type in the word “Dialogue” and then select all clips, then i hit “V” and it doesn’t do anything…
What am i doing wrong?
15″ MacBook Pro Quad Core i7 2.0GHz
1TB G-RAID
Final Cut Pro X
Canon T2i -
Hover the arrow over one of the selected clips and hit v.
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hmm no dice…
here is what i got right now…type in dialogue to filter only roles with dialogue in them…then i hit V with them all selected and nothing happens and i get that little “nope, nice try” beep thing and nothing happens…
15″ MacBook Pro Quad Core i7 2.0GHz
1TB G-RAID
Final Cut Pro X
Canon T2i -
I see.
You are hitting v over a selected clip in the timeline?
Trying right clicking and choose disable (also has to be done on a selected clip in timeline).
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Yeah, i mean i can individually disable audio in each little clip but the trick T Payton showed before would do it with just a click or two instead of manually doing it each single clip.
For some reason the clips are showing Video, Dialogue instead of them separately….i tried breaking apart the audio but when i hit disable it still disabled the video as well…
This is a picture of what I’m looking at when i select all the dialogue (which is also Role’d as video)
15″ MacBook Pro Quad Core i7 2.0GHz
1TB G-RAID
Final Cut Pro X
Canon T2i
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