[Charlie Austin]

[Jason Brown] “I’m not sure you understand. I have 15 favorite ranges…want 15 sequences.”

Ah… I think you’d have to do each individually then.

You can right click the favorite and make a new compound clip, but at some point you’d need to cut ’em into projects and break them apart. you can edit in a Compound clip just like a regular project, but it’s not the best idea….

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[Charlie Austin]

Create a new project, set favorite ranges, select all, hit Q or D to cut into project.

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[Charlie Austin]

[Jeremy Garchow] “having the option to keep the primary storyline towards the bottom of the screen instead of it trying to always hover in the middle of the window.
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Actually, I’d prefer the opposite. Guess it depends on whether you are concentrating on piles of video or audio. Here’s what should happen… The primary should stay where you put it. 🙂

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[Charlie Austin]

[Bill Davis] “It seems to me that the program is doing precisely what I’d want it to do. “

Then you should be using iMovie, which will mix for you. 🙂 Even iMovie requires the user to tell the app how much to duck the competing clips though. There’s some other issue here…

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[Charlie Austin]

[Andy Neil] “Bill,-12 DB might be unity for most video productions, but FCPX should not be auto attenuating clips placed into the timeline. That would be a nightmare for mixing.”

Agreed. I’m all for X taking care of some drudge work for me, but changing audio levels with no user input is not something I’d be happy about. At all. And… I don’t think it’s doing that, in fact, it doesn’t do it for me. even with audio that’s slammed to 0db on the meters. same in browser and project… something else is going on.

I’m with Andy, delete or disable the “empty” tracks in the master clip and see what happens. The fact that reference waveforms are showing up in them points to some sort of signal being present…

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[Charlie Austin]

[David Hudson] “I want the actions of B but shouldn’t I get a new compound clip- or a way to now save the new compound clip new name and all.”

Duplicate the CC. Select it and choose “Reference New Parent Clip” from the Clip menu. Find in Event (use a smart collection looking for CC’s if you don’t already) Rename it. Done. 🙂

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[Charlie Austin]

[David Cooke] “Just want to thank you VERY MUCH Charlie for the Strobe plug-in. It works!
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My pleasure. Honestly, it’s just a published Motion effect. Very easy to do, but glad it worked! 🙂

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[Charlie Austin]

[Scott Witthaus] “and very more than likely no incoming students will know about it. “

True. It may go even further than jut FCP 7 at some point. I saw a post recently from a guy who had learned to edit on FCP X, and was watching some MC training vids. He wanted to know what “patching tracks” meant. Like, didn’t even understand the concept, and when explained, wondered why you’d need to do such a thing. I suspect more questions like that will appear in the future. 😉

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[Neil Goodman] “audio playback was still pretty glitchy and intermittent for me.”

I second that. Especially with large, multichannel source files. Plays fine in source window, but switch the view to waveforms and it comes to a screeching halt. The timeline functions fine initially, but gets worse as you add tracks. Great for making tweaks to a cut while grading, but not ready to be a “replacement” for a dedicated NLE yet. And the speed “ramp-up” when hitting J or L multiple times is maddening.

That said, It could be my system I guess, and I wish it worked better ‘cuz I kind of like it. Except for the tracks, I can do without those. 😉

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[Charlie Austin]

[Herb Sevush] “I’m guessing it’s the second color picker that makes the difference over dedicated color grading apps, but Automatch gets me much closer, much faster. Thanks again.”

That’s been the case for me as well. Cutting trailers/spots I often cut together shots, dialog and/or reactions from wildly different scenes. Automatch has made it simpler for me to “match” this type of thing quickly. (within reason of course, I tried turning night to day at one point but that wasn’t happening. lol)

Also, as a simpleton, I appreciate that despite the depth of control available in the plugin, it makes it easy to get great results without going too deep if I choose not to. 🙂

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