[Ben Connors]

Hey Mark,

One more thought: assuming that you’re way more likely than me to get a feature request accepted for a future release…I thought I’d mention that having audio come through on templates seems would be a huge help. Seems like it would be a lot easier to implement in X too. I for one would dance around the office if that was in a future release.

Best,

[Ben Connors]

I figured someone out there would have a solution, for me in a day or two. I didn’t expect Mark Spencer himself to answer within the hour.

You sir are a gentleman and a scholar. I can’t believe I’ve been dragging and dropping all these weeks. That makes SOOOO much more sense.
Thanks for all the free tutorials. I hope someday, to be able to fork over some cash and sit in class. Meanwhile very happy you’re here on creative cow.

I might just start singing FCPX’s praises yet.

[Ben Connors]

Hey there,

I’ve been in this position before. I’m an editor not a shooter and I’m used to the shoulder cam xd cameras not the EXs. If the footage has already been shot… your really going to be in a tough position. My best suggestion would be to drop all clips from each disk into their own sequences, and name the sequences disk1, disk2 etc… I had to do this in Haiti, and it’s a major pain in the butt… however it’s easier than dealing with a bajillion clips.

Now I don’t know where in the menu it is because I’m more an editor than a shooter… but there are modes you can select. I always ask my cameramen to shoot in ‘multi-clip’ mode. This creates a new clip every time the camera is turned on and off instead of on each record. I think you can even arrange it to give you FCP markers on each record press.

Sorry I don’t know the menus, but search around for multi-clip… there is an answer.