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Shots on timeline changing…
…without any input from me!
I’m cutting a series of films from one event (maybe 80-100 hours of source material) and all’s going well – each film is a project and they’re between 1-5 mins long. Twice now my client has gone to view projects and the edits we’ve done have changed – specifically shots on the timeline (1 in each case) have extended from their original duration (about a second in each case) to the full length of the source shot – maybe a couple of minutes or more. Fortunately the rest of the edit still exists, just away down the end of the timeline.
This has happened with no input from me or the client, and is a little worrying – anyone experienced this before? Is there a way to stop it? Does this signal worse to come? Are we all doomed?
As ever the collective knowledge of this pasture’s members will be gratefully received!
Jason
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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Yes, we are all doomed, but X has nothing to do with it.
Can you explain a bit more how you have your project arranged? Is it compound clip’d or is it clips in the project timeline?
In either case, what happened when you trimmed the offending clip to its proper length?
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Hi Richard,
No, they were just clips in the primary storyline. One clip in each project (2 of about 15) had simply extended itself to it’s full length, just as if you’d done it manually. I did wonder if I (or my client) had accidentally stumbled across a key combination or obscure shortcut that ‘replaced clip with entire original’ or ‘extend clip to it’s fullest extent’ but no…
No damage was done to the edit as the clips post this offending one were intact, just a few minutes down the timeline. It took me all of a couple of minutes to fix, so no biggie, but puzzling and a little worrying nonetheless.
Jason
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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Have you been able to re-create this in any other project?
Whether you believe that you can or you can’t, you’re absolutely right.
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No Chris, I haven’t had a repeat of it so far. I’ll keep a weather eye out though…
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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Did you change the frame rate of the project?
https://help.apple.com/finalcutpro/mac/10.0.3/#ver3363b44e
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No, nothing like that. The projects were fine, the machine was shut down, and on restarting and opening FCPX they’d changed. I’m assuming some kind of database corruption/glitch…
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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