[Ben Chastney]

Sounds delightfully easy! We’ll implement

[Ben Chastney]

[Mark Suszko] “I’m getting at is that I don’t think the problem is actually *in* compressor, but rather, in some step FCPX is doing in the pre-render.”

See the first image below everything rendered, looks correct, but then….

[Jeremy Garchow] “If you compound that clip before sending to compressor, does that help?”

… upon compounding the clip the error is duplicated in the FCPX timeline. See the images below.

Any clues here?

[Ben Chastney]

[Noah Kadner] “looks like the Cow ate those chunks of HTML”

Haha, I heard they have eight stomachs… might not get those back. I used your Option A for this one, worked great. I just did any mixing/ slipping before sharing the master file.

Thanks Noah

[Ben Chastney]

[Noah Kadner] “The simple way I can think of would be to export the synced clip out of FCPX and then reconnect that new media to the clip in your browser with the keywords.”

I like this and understand, thank you. I’d like to preserve the “Synchronized Clip” functionality if possible. Being able to open the clip in the timeline and slip the sync

[Noah Kadner] “Look for Then look for Then find the Paste the Save the new XML.”

What am I looking for, finding and pasting? I’m interested in this approach, is there a reason I can’t see that on my end?

[Ben Chastney]

Noah: Each Game project consists of 20-30 clips each 1-3 minutes in length, hence the compound clip approach. Thanks so much for the offer to look into my edit. I’d really appreciate that, I will share some screenshots early this coming week.

Joe: Thank you for that video, I’m going to watch it and share my thoughts.

Preliminarily I feel Keywords are the answer and I see the power in them, but how to display relevant information in a keyword collection rather than just the parent clip name is my current issue. Or a change of mindset to accomplish the same goal. Any other suggestions? Also other relevant training videos, I will likely watch them all

Ben

[Ben Chastney]

Did that, it worked and the file plays fine in QT, but when I bring it into FCP and put the clip onto the timeline it behaves strangely. The audio appeared to be out of sync. After toiling around trying to figure out what was going on I noticed that the file I was working with in my FCP browser didn’t end on the same frame as when I played that exact file in QT. The FCP version has the same duration but the video ends ~30sec before the QT version (meaning that the final frame of the FCP version which appears 37:18 appears at 36:56 in the QT version)

Here’s the strangest part, I marked out the last 5 seconds of my FCP version (a five second shot of a soccer team preparing for a free kick with OUT OF SYNC audio, one of the last plays of the game) when I exported that selection from FCP and played that file it shows the team passing the ball around after the game is over with audio IN SYNC.

I know this looks confusing, but please bear with me. Here are the settings I used in QT to export:

Video-
Compression: DV/DVCPRO-NTSC
Quality: Best
Scan Mode: Interlaced
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Dimensions: 720×480 (853×480)
(Compressor Native)

Sound-
Format: Integer (Little Endian)
Sample Rate: 48.000 kHz
Sample Size: 16-bit
Channels: Stereo (L R)

Thanks

[Ben Chastney]

Bret, thanks for helping. Your original solution is working for me personally (exporting and re-importing), but it brought to light a new issue.

One of our clients wants a digital copy of games we film at giant events on site (sometimes ~20-30 games in a day.) Ideally, I was hoping to be able to take a card with 3-4 games on it and create for them simple files (game by game) on their drive that they can use for their own purposes, then copy those files onto my own drive for my own purposes (editing in FCP.)

Also, the equipment present may not always have FCP (expensive.) That’s why that software would be so handy, something that could stitch these 30 files together as this and those 30 together as that ready to edit in FCP or just watch in QT.

[Ben Chastney]

Tried nesting them. Subclips from the nest were an issue, so that method is out. I exported the sequence as a QT movie and re-imported. That worked, but added ~6min to the process (still a huge improvement over realtime capturing)

Now, what I was wondering, is there software available to stitch files together outside of FCP? Like straight from the card onto a harddrive in a format that FCP can edit immediately? Ideally I would like to say, “OK, stitch these 30 files together onto this drive as ‘Team A vs Team B’ then stitch these 35 files onto this drive as ‘Team C vs Team D.'” Hit a button and end up with a folder containing the files “Team A vs Team B” and “Team C vs Team D”

Is there a solution like that?