[Andy Mees]

what version of XML export … I just tried to duplicate the problem here using XML v5 and it worked perfectly

[Andy Mees]

you could use QuicKeys or similar tool to automatically click the ‘Center’ button for you whenever you press a specific hot key … that should work

https://www.quickkeys.com/

[Andy Mees]

Hope you find a solution that suits.
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Andy

[Andy Mees]

The problem is that every time you apply a transition, the clip ending/beginning is de-selected

“v” is the shortcut key for selecting the transition at the playhead, see if that works

[Andy Mees]

Hi David

You can remap keyboard shortcuts in the Tools > Keyboard Layout window … but there’s no built in way of doing what you want. You could achieve it with a combination of keystrokes that you could string together as a macro (eg v, cmd-t, v, opt-t) which is then mapped to a single keypress … but you’ll need third party macro software for that. Quickkeys is the old favorite, Videotoolshed make a simple macro tool too, plus there is also a freeware option called Spark by Shadowlab, but it doesn’t seem to be under active development.

Re your second question, you can assign any of the available audio transitions to be your default audio transition, just right click (ctrl click) the transition in the relevant effects bin and choose Set Default Transition from the context menu … unfortunately there are only 2 audio transitions to choose from and they are both Cross Fade (ie there is no Fade In Fade Out audio transition) 🙁

Out of luck I’m afraid.
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Andy

[Andy Mees]

Hey Luke

Is it possible you’re misinterpreting sequence timecode with no timecode? … sequence exports should contain sequence timecode, but if your sequences start at 00:00:00:00 then you might be thinking it your timecode is somehow missing.

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Andy

[Andy Mees]

Sorry Steven
The function is strictly a “Merge” one, not a “Replace” one … if Merged clips are not doing it for you then you might want to work with reference movies instead. Creating a reference movie for the purpose you need can be either is a timeline level operation or both browser and timeline level operation. At the timeline level you can manually sync your video and audio clips, delete unnecessary audio, then Export a Quicktime Movie w/ Current Settings but uncheck the Make Self Contained option; or for browser and timeline method, select the two separate video and audio clips to sync in the browser window then chose Make Multiclip Sequnece… again, delete unnecessary audio from the created sequence, Export a Quicktime Movie w/ Current Settings and uncheck the Make Self Contained option. Reimport the newly created movies and use those in place of the original audio and video media … and whatever else you do, don’t delete the original video media as those clips are still being referenced by these new clips!

Warning: the timecode on the newly created clips will be the sequence timecode not the original clip timecode … if you need original clip timecode you can manually set the sequence timecode to match, or better still, you can use the Make Multiclip Sequence method described above as that will automatically generate a sequence with timecode that matches the source.

Hope it helps
Andy

[Andy Mees]

you’re very welcome … great use of screenshots by the way, I reckon we’d have gone round in circles without them!

[Andy Mees]

Hey Steven
I think the fact that you have separated your selections within two separate bin windows is preventing the function from working … close the “Audio” bin window/tab and then in the main Browser window use the various bin’s disclosure triangles to view and select from their contents (ie use a hierarchical view in the main Browser window) … now retry the Merge Clips function
Hope it helps
Andy

[Andy Mees]

Hey Steven

Still not entirely clear on the delivering 4:3 at beyond HD res thing but thats by the by 😉 … here’s how you’d do it pretty easily in Compressor.

I’m guessing you got as far as loading in your source clip and your settings preset so I’ll skip the basics and get straight to the geometry … for changing the geometry you need to switch the inspector window to the Geometry tab, change the Frame Size to the wanted result (so 1920 x 1080 would become 1920 x 1536 if you wanted to maintain the full resolution of the 16:9 original but change the ratio to 4:3) … this will cause your source to be stretched out to fill that new frame, which is not what you want, so you can simply set the Output Image Inset (Padding) (aka the letterbox) to use a 16:9 preset (which will calculate the actual pad values needed based on the already given Frame Size) so as to maintain the original aspect within the oversized frame. And thats it really, very simple in practice.

Best
Andy