[Boris Jansch]

I’ve been cutting with FCP X since it came out and initially I was in the same throw the baby out with the bath water camp.

A couple of months down the line, I’m loving the new way of editing despite having to learn a new way of editing. I also tried CS5.5 for one project recently but I found that I was missing FCPX’s media management tools, the fantastic way of displaying your footage so that it’s all there and skimmable giving you faster access to what you want, not to mention the very useful new publishing tool with Motion 5, which is just huge!!

My complaints (and I see that most if not all of your points came up during my own experience) were mostly to do with the fact that I was trying to superimpose my tried and tested ways of editing in FCP7 onto FCPX and I quickly learnt that that does not work.

Most if not all of your points are problems that can be worked around easily and that are to do with not fully understanding the new way of working in FCPX. And while I think of it, dragging from the centre circle in the transform mode will lock along an axis. All the answers to your points are ont Tinternet. Oh yes, another one is that you can create disc images for archiving projects so that FCPX doesn’t load it on startup. Etc, etc.

When it finally clicks and you find the solutions to those annoying little quirks I think this new FCP will put a smile on your face.

Many thanks,

Boris J.

[Boris Jansch]

With SL. I’ve no idea when or how it happens but it’s happened several times now.

Many thanks,

Boris J.

[Boris Jansch]

Thanks Craig, as you correctly said, enlightenment was available after a little searching – not to be confused for the search for spiritual enlightenment, which is an impossible dream.

I still don’t get the adjustable audio levels line in the most condensed mode of the timeline.

Many thanks,

Boris J.

[Boris Jansch]

Hello mate,
I use both but as I get used to it I’m using the select tool more and more and it puts a smile on my face.

It was a bit of a one sided rant but I really do like a lot about the new FCP it’s just ever so buggy and I needed it to be better for this edit.

Many thanks,

Boris J.

[Boris Jansch]

Thanks Rich, I’ll add my story to the ever growing list of gripes that Apple will hopefully resolve soonish. Reconnecting media is such a basic, it blows my mind that this function has been overlooked, particularly as most of us professional editors won’t be familiar with the idiosyncrasies that media connections based on meta data can throw up.

FCPX is a lot of fun and it has definitely got my creative juices flowing again but I’ll be switching to CS5.5 regrettably because I work with a lot of 5D and I can’t risk losing an edit and I don’t have time to transcode it all for FCP7.

Many thanks,

Boris J.

[Boris Jansch]

Well I guess it serves me right for buying version 1.0.

I think the only way to resolve it is by reimporting the suposed offline media and then reinserting the clips manually by reading the timecode info of the suposed offline project clips in the inspector.

Bottom!!!!

Many thanks,

Boris J.

[Boris Jansch]

Please anyone!!! Need to deliver this film tomorrow.

Surely there’s a way to relink the clips in my Project??

The clips in the Event folder look offline although the media is there in the capture scratch of FCP7.

The meta data obviously got changed when I opened the source clips with Premiere.

Should I ditch the thumbnail cache from the FCPX relevant event folder?

Many thanks,

Boris J.

[Boris Jansch]

What I didn’t mention was that the source media is in the FCP7 capture scratch and so the Event folder just has the short cut pointer.

Many thanks,

Boris J.

[Boris Jansch]

If I drag or import the media clips back into the event they apear next to the offline clips but I’m not sure what to do next.

Should I delete the offline clips in the hope that the reimported versions will then link to the offline clips in the Project? bit scary!

I haven’t added or taken anything away from the contents of the event folder. The only thing I have done since completing the cut is that I had a look at those same prores clips in Premiere Pro, but like I said, I ditched that programme along with associated documents.

Hmmm…

Many thanks,

Boris J.

[Boris Jansch]

I’m using FCP7.

I’ve been given some footage shot on the Canon XF305, copied from the CF card to a hard drive, which was sent to me.

Canon’s Log and transfer plugin will not recognise the clips because the file structure is slightly different I suspect.

Sony XDCam import plays the clips perfectly but when they are imported, the audio is out of sync and unusable.

Does anyone know of a way to restore the file structure so it looks like the original CF card?

I don’t know what else to do so any help would be appreciated.

Many thanks,

Boris J.