Bret Williams
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Duplicate the library at finder level?
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Well, it’s known to me. Whether the cache is just getting unruly or one just needs to delete their prefs more, it’s still a bug imho. I see people post about it here from time to time. Could be some sort of drive permissions issue too. Who knows.
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I get it quite a lot. It’s s bug that’s always been there. Usually it’s 3rd party plugins that come unrendered not the entire timeline. And it doesn’t always happen. So if it’s always happening with every project and every render, then I’d delete prefs.
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I find myself using the position tool for moving VO or music from a connected clip to the primary. Usually when replacing one or the other. I could use the cmd opt down arrow but it doesn’t work if you’ve trimmed the connected clips to a subframe level. But with the P tool you can hold shift and it will snap them to the nearest frame as you drag them to the primary.
Beyond that I don’t find myself using it much but not because full time ripple is a good idea, but because only a small part of the interface is in full ripple mode- storylines. Usually all my fx and b-roll are just connected clips until transitions or further finishing is needed. Moving them around is the same with or without the p tool. My primary is the vocal backbone and may get trimmed, but rarely requires the P tool.
The interface really wouldn’t be all that different if the P tool was the default for me as I don’t move stuff around in the primary, and the rough edit tools already reflect overwrite, insert, connect, etc.
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Surely you can reverse marquee like avid, or use an index like FCP X or something?
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They should take a clue from their own app Motion, eh? Avid has done it for 20 years as well. You can either step in or open it up in the timeline.
I do however wish you could open a group in Motion in it’s own window/tab like After Effects can do with Pre-Comps. Sometimes it’s just too much to look at and you don’t need the contextual surroundings. It also increases performance when you’re just dealing with the the one group/pre-comp.
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Notice how many are compounds. And I’m afraid there are compounds inside those compounds as well.
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Glad it helped! Now get back to us when your timeline looks like this –
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The problem you describe has nothing to do with tracks or not. It’s just compositing 101. You can’t do everything with one layer. The white layer would go below the primary. Would you feel better if I made the assertion that the reason transitions placed on a single clip in a secondary in X grab the background (like a push) so that it can act like it IS on the primary? There problem solved. You’re not holding it wrong after all. ?
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Make it a compound clip. Then blade the compound clip. It won’t start over.
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