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synchronise clips back ground
Hi everyone,
Sorry as I’ve posted this question once before but without a response and I haven’t been able to find an answer on the net so I thought I’d ask it again here:
Before 10.1.2/3 I could select a group of clips and click synchronize, while it was synchronizing in the background I could select another group and click to synchronize that. I would do that for a large number of cli groups.
Since 10.1.2/3 I can only synchronize one group at a time and fcpx is on hold until It is finished synchronizing. Not very practical, at least not within my workflow.
question: is there a setting i missed or is this the new fcpx?
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Synchronising has never been a background task. The progress has always been displayed via a foreground progress bar. Only things such as analysis’, transcoding and rendering are BG tasks.
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Actually that is not true, I’ve done this a hundred times where I could do it as described above. check this video, this is how it used to go: https://youtu.be/AgQnIT9f6_Q?t=1m15s
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Well, aside from that being such a short clip he’s using that it went so fast no progress bar was probably even needed, I never recall seeing it work that way. Maybe I simply never synched anything when it did, which therefore must have been a VERY early version. But then creating the clip BEFORE it is factually synched doesn’t make any sense to me either, so maybe that is why they changed it, if they in fact did. Either way, it’s not a setting, it’s how it currently works, yes.
If you need a lot of batching like that, then you might consider looking at Plural Eyes. And sending a request to Apple.
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Thanks for the reply, yes it is a short clip but I used to do this with dozens of groups at the same time. After I had everything set I could work on other things while it all synced in the back ground. Good to know that I ‘m not overseeing anything and will definitely send a message to apple.
looking at plural eyes and that definitely looks promising!
I think the syncing changed with the library changes around 10.1. I didn’t notice until I upgraded till 10.2 as I was working on so many projects that I kept my old version of 10.0.9 for some time.
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But then synching will rarely take any longer than maybe a few seconds, if even (at least here), so is it really that much of a hindrance? The time it takes me to regather my thoughts and figure out my next step will take longer. I recently synched up some 300+ clips for a feature and it never struck me as inefficient, hindering or slow. But then maybe that’s just me…
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Perhaps it depends which kind of media that is used? I usually sync several audio files + 3-5 cams, cliplength 10 minutes. When I have many groups to do I would start syncing the groups and then when I’m finished giving fcpx the tasks I could start editing on the first clips as at that point they’re synced already.
Syncing doesn’t take that long indeed but, but I like to keep going instead of waiting and with the bigger projects time adds up quickly
[edit] perhaps because I do a lot of the same stuff I’m kind of on auto-mode with particular projects.
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[Andre van Berlo] “I usually sync several audio files + 3-5 cams”
You realise of course that you’re describing a MULTICAM, not a synchronised clip, right?
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Yes it is a multicam but I use the sync feature as in the video I’m having all cameras at the same time. Something like a picture in picture. So you’ll see all 4 cams at the same time. Perhaps I’m not familiar enough with multicam but I always thought that you can have only 1 cam in picture
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[Andre van Berlo] “Perhaps I’m not familiar enough with multicam but I always thought that you can have only 1 cam in picture”
Yes. But then there’s also this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2pnoveRIYE&list=UU_q2DkCswQYJnfa2q_hjguABut whether that’s (more) pratical for what you are doing only you can decide.
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Ha, I missed that episode clearly, thanks for showing me! I must say though that when I sync my videos and turn the synced clip into a compoundclip I can do the same things with it. The great thing is that I can then composite the clips inside the compound clip and when I’m done do the actual editing on the compound clip giving me a very simple timeline. On top of that I have several layers of audio that I need to export as well, not sure how many audio layers you can have “on” simultaneously.
But If I’m interpreting the use of plural eyes correctly that could help a lot in syncing my shoots.
Also thank you for taking the time to look into this!
André
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