[Adam Chesbrough]

yes but sometimes I prefer to have the 60fps clips in the main timeline or sometimes in other groups. Also, if you are dealing with 1000’s of clips then sometimes you don’t know which are 60 when you add them to the timeline… Sounds like there is not a solution.

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[Adam Chesbrough]

yes of course. And I have ways of batch doing that (make all 60fps a specific role so that you can batch conform all your clips on the timeline) but the issue:

Ex) You have a 10 second timeline. You have a 2 second 24fps clip, 6 second 60fps clip, 2 second 24fps clip. You NEED that third clip to reside on second 8; well when you “automatic speed” your 60 clip that third clip no longer resides at second 8…see the issue. I don’t want to have to move around my timeline every time I conform…especially since FCPX wants me to use a mouse so badly (for the love of god give me the ability to choose a clip other than the main TL clip with the keyboard)

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[Adam Chesbrough]

Because then it drops the frames to make it 24 but it is not truly conformed ie it is real time speed

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[Adam Chesbrough]

I would like the footage to be 24 when in import to FCPX so that I don’t need to deal with “Automatic Speed” and so that when I add the clip to the timeline it doesn’t mess the timing of my project up when I conform at a later point in the edit.

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[Adam Chesbrough]

I would like to conform all of my 60fps and 30fps to 24 prior to working with it in FCPX. It would be one thing if there was the ability to set “automatic Speed” to all the clips within the viewer (so that when I bring it to the timeline the length is accurate. I guess no one has found a way to batch conform outside of FCPX in mavericks. Would be great if someone posted their workflow.

I read above that davinchi can do it…too late as I will be unable to reconnect all of the files within my current project as they will have different frame rates. Ugh

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[Adam Chesbrough]

I have noticed that, but it disappears if I go to the “next marker”, in this instance all the markers are on the audio track. (10.1, not longer allows me to insert markers on grouped audio tracks!!!???). I will send them a comment.

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[Adam Chesbrough]

Yes keywords translating to folder would be a mess, yes folders would be much better. But folders are made up of keywords since you can’t add individual clips to folders (you should be able to do that!). All I’m saying if my organizational FCPX structure could be maintained in the finder then life would be GREAT.

Back to organizing:
I shoot throughout the year and put together a reel that displays some of the person work that I do on the side. It is ideal to have all this media available to use when I open the project. It is also ideal to have that media separated in some form within the finder.

Therefore I am splitting up each “shoot” into an event within the same library. This way I don’t have to keep the media separate and at the end of the year can simply move the library for archival purposes.

Potential problems:
1. Keywords do not run across events and therefore if I want to have a keyword representing clips across different events I am out of luck and have to go into each of those events at different times
2. In the old version of FCPX (10.0.9) the issue was that having all events open at one time slowed everything done. Not sure if this is the case if they are all in the same library.
3. Having to “show content” is a pain in the a** for whenever you want to grab content from other libraries. Yes, you can add the folder to your “favorites” in the finder but that is one more step.

In hindsight maybe events wasn’t the best way to go. Could just keep the media separate and then manually archive with the library later. BUT manual process always will leave something out. There are tutorials that say you should choose where to keep the media based on project type ie sometimes copy media to library sometimes use alias’. I would prefer to have one system so that others that work with me can follow my process and procedures, not make their own calls in terms of organization.

ALSO, WHY DO FOLDERS NOT MAINTAIN WHEN I MERGE EVENTS OR COPY MEDIA? So frustrating!

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[Adam Chesbrough]

The solution was to go back into FCPX 10.0.9 and relink all the files there. Then bring it into FCPX 10.1.1 and try it again.

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[Adam Chesbrough]

i have tried the following (both with copying to library and leaving the files where they are (which is in the final cut events folder)
1. Dragging to the library. This create a duplicate. Doesn’t change anything
2. Using import dialog, this creates a (FCP1) version in the library. I then deleted the alias file and deleted the (FCP1) suffix and the broll reconnected automatically. All interviews did not. BUT final cut gave me a message that says there are three files (the interview ones) that match but are not the same media (which isn’t true.
3. I have tried everything else under the sun also, reconnecting from the original media, importing, deleting keywords etc.

There is probably something simple that is staring me in the face here that I am missing but having a hard time figuring it out.

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[Adam Chesbrough]

I have saved them and that is where the actual media is stored ie the files that I am trying to reconnect. FCPX thinks that the files are different even though they are exactly the same. Seems like the whole thing might be corrupt…

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