[Alban Egger]

Had problems like this also. A similar bug is happening when you have a clip selected in the event-browser and can´t select anything in the timeline. I don´t think it´s the render file, but the RAM-cache.
What helps in these cases is to go out to the project-browser and reload the timeline/project.

[Alban Egger]

FCPX and Motion5 are not able to remember windows-settings. They are constantly frustrating us by resetting to the default. there is no way yet to fix this other than wait for Apple or leave FCPX and M5.

[Alban Egger]

At the moment this is very tricky. FCPX does not behave as we are used to, because there is no reconnect command.

FCPX manage your data in the event. that is your master-controller. BUT it is picky. If you break the link-line or even if you overwrite a file (with same name, duration) then the connection is gone and the EVENT cannot find it.

Now that is bad news and I am sure Apple will have to fix this.

For now my advice is to use FCPX totally:
Move your film files back to their original drive. They should appear now as connected.
Then I suggest to “File->Organize Event Media”
This will create a copy of your clips IN THE EVENT directory. You can now (after the copy is complete) move your original media elsewhere, because FCPX will work with its own copy.

The good thing about this : you already have a backup!
And there are issues when you open files in other programs. So don´t touch the files in this Event directory with another NLES!!! Use the original files instead.

Now you still use all that diskspace on your drive. To free that up you have to “MOVE-EVENT” by dragging it onto another disk to free up CalDigitVR.

I know it sounds weird at first, but I have now made a few projects with it and it is actually quite nice the way this is organized (if the re-connect would work it was perfect). For instance, once you have keyworded your footage you can drag keyword collections to other events on other disks and give those to another editor. he can create projects/timelines and only give you the those back and you then reconnect them with your original event. It is typical APPLE. If you sell out to them they have a nice microcosmos for you, but they like to be incompatible with others.

[Alban Egger]

Searching might be possible, but smart-collections and folders are event-restricted. and Stu is right, that is complicating things.
We also ran into problems when merging events, because a merge also destroys your folders and existing smart-collections in BOTH events involved.

I hope they change that, because it works in Aperture and should be possible from a database-programming-standpoint.

Example: You follow a team. If not every week/game, then let´s say you make every YEAR ONE event. In the second year you look for all scores from one player in home games shot from the low-angle……and maybe you also have an event from another team…so three events involved….there are workarounds, but then why have smart collections at all?

[Alban Egger]

Didn´t know that worked in FCP7.

You probably will have to keyframe a volume-effect in the inspector and then copy – paste that. Don´t think “OPTION-COMMAND-V” pastes audiokeyframes from the timeline.

It tried it, it doesn´t work in the built in volume control of the clip. When you paste the keyframs to a copy of the clip, they are applied at the same time codes….so your slip moves them exactly where they are in the original clip.

I hope someone else can help you out.

[Alban Egger]

this “forgetting every setting” is throughout FCPX and even Motion! it clearly is annoying and costs time and is definitely a result of a rushed product. I see no reason why this shouldn´t be fixed in vewrsions “dot-one”.

[Alban Egger]

Mark,
it seems you are stumbling through a software you aren´t familiar with yet and compare it to the one you are used to. I guess you will fight with AVID or Premiere or, the arguably fastest editor out there, Edius, also initially.
And you probably had the same issues when you started with FCP7 (or whatever version you started with).

I can´t reproduce the echo-effect you experience. I used FCPX extensively for 4 weeks now and never had that problem. FCPX is responsive, quick, slick and efficient. Definitely a bug in your timeline there.

I tried to do what you did in 13 minutes. The J-cut with clean-up of a stutter takes a few seconds, just like it would take me in FCP7. I like to have the camera-audio in the clip and can live with the need to detach audio to fix it. That´s a shortcut extra. But I see no other advantage in FCP7.

You are right the un-sync-numbers are missing and there are clearly some betalevel issues still, but what you try to accomplish is not faster or slower in FCPX it is just a little different. But that´s my 2 cents.

[Alban Egger]

There is one problem in Apple´s approach: they should offer a trial so people would use it before posting here. there are so many misunderstandings that people post here without even knowing what they talk about.

For starters you can recreate a folder and bin structure with folders, subfolders, keywordcollections and smartcollections. Way more powerful than anything you ever saw in FCP7.

Also the fct there are some automatic tools doesn´t mean a) that they are useless, just because you don´t know them and b) that you have to use them. Simply leave them alone and that´s that.

I went back to FCP7 after a month of FCPX for an old project and almost laughed out louds at how BAD it is.

[Alban Egger]

Lance, it is a BAD idea that FCPX forgets the last I/O i did set on any clip.
But by HAVING TO adjust I actually saved a lot of time later in my project, because I can now see several I/O on many longer clips as green selections on them. No more subclipping and definitely helps with larger projects.

But in version 10.1 they HAVE TO allow the bins to remember the I/O.

[Alban Egger]

conitnued the blog after i had to edit parts of the documentary on the road and only took a part of the footage with me…reconnecting was not an issue at all…here´s the workflow:
https://fcpxmegatest.blogspot.com/2011/07/how-to-take-parts-of-project-aka-event.html