[Carsten Orlt]

Don’t know the answer how to fix it, but I just read on the XtoPro website that multicam clips indeed only live in the event. The project doesn’t contain any information about the content of a multicam clip.
XtoPro for instance needs the XML’s from the events as well to correctly process multicam clips.

Guess this will not make you happy…

[Carsten Orlt]

Could it be that you can’t move the last audio because there is an audio clip connected to it at the start of the audio clip in the primary.

If you would compound the connected audio clip to the connected audio clip before it, so that those two are now connected together with one anchor before the audio in the primary.
Can you now lift the last audio out of the primary?

FCPx should be able too, but maybe it doesn’t allow it because it would loose the connected audio. Same as you delete any connected clips if you delete the clip they are connected too on the primary.

Hope you’ll get what I mean and it works 🙂

Cheers
Carsten

[Carsten Orlt]

Do not copy-paste clips between projects.

Just duplicate the project and change the settings in the duplicate. FCPx will adjust all clips accordingly.

[Carsten Orlt]

I always thought the award is for best editing and NOT for best software?

Must have got that wrong all those years….

[Carsten Orlt]

I used long file names with dash characters on the Mac.

Windows, or maybe Java for Windows, doesn’t like those 🙁

Change the name and all is good.

[Carsten Orlt]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Now slip/roll/move the video only of the connected clip. The corresponding audio is now out of sync, with no indicator and no easy way to get in back in to sync without manually putting the clip back in sync, and then compounding the result.”

2 solutions I see:

A. Compound the connected clip even if it is just a single connected clip. Break apart audio in the new compound, adjust levels, jump out of compound, which now still stays connected to the primary and behaves as a single connected clip. I know that that doesn’t give you level adjustment in context, but you can now adjust, than check in context. But honestly how likely is it that you want to do adjust in context? Most likely the audio has main tracks and additional which you want to fade out/down if they disturb the main audio. But ok I accept that this might hinder you.

B. After breaking apart in main project, adjusting the levels, compound the result again before you adjust the video (slip/slide etc) Again there is a a step that wasn’t there before in 7, but I do to see this as a deal breaker, just a workflow adjustment.

Might be for you though?

Cheers
Carsten

[Carsten Orlt]

I do not understand this argument. The only missing in X are the ‘out of sync’ indicators.
Audio clips in 7 are kept in sync by their first frame in relation to the video they belong too (if they are linked to video). Kind of exactly like in X.
The whole idea of the ,’magnetic’ timeline I think is the premise to avoid the problem of throwing things out of sync because in 7 all tracks need to be adjusted together to avoid sync issues. That’s by the way the reason why asymmetric trimming was invented in the first place. Take the tracks away and link individual audio clips to single video clips makes it impossible to throw anything out of sync. Yes sync indicators would be nice but strictly speaking they are not necessary.
So nothing is taken away, it just works differently and common editing task need a different approach.
If you like the different approach is up to the individual, but it is very often just not true that X has made certain task impossible or really complicated.
For the record I disagree with Bill that the strength of the magnetic timeline lies in the pre-assembly of building blocks. I see the strength in the timeline that I can edit e.g. interviews where they are in the timeline rather than throwing them to the back of a timeline so I can avoid making gabs or jump through hoops not to throw anything else out of sync. Add to this the ability of subframe audio editing and modern high end audio plugin support makes X much better for audio editing for me. Mixing is another issue, but I leave that to the pros in that field.
my 2 cents
Carsten

[Carsten Orlt]

my client came back with:
Java 6 Standard Edition – version 6, update 17 (build 1.6.0_17-b04) / Im pretty sure its windows 7

We’re both using CatDV 9.0.6 professional

Thanks!

[Carsten Orlt]

Drive is Fat32, but we also transferred the proxy files to the internal drive of the Windows laptop, and same result.

OSX is 10.6.8. Don’t know Windows version? Laptop is with client so have to check later.

Cheers
Carsten

[Carsten Orlt]

Thanks Bryson,

Already thought about Java version, but the Windows laptop is with my client now so I have to wait to test.

Cheers
Carsten