Charlie Austin
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[Sterling Noren] “Is this normal? Is there any way to turn off this auto-save function or at leaf set it to occur less often?”
You can turn it off. Select the Library, open the inspector, click the “modify settings” button next to Storage Locations, click the Backups drop down and choose “Do Not Save’. If you do this, I’d strongly recommend using Backups for Final Cut Pro (app store) or something. Having no backups is a very bad idea. I use Backups, as well as Digital Rebellion Pro Versioner. More is better. 🙂
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[James Ewart] “Would “move into sync” be such an unreasonable function?”
Nope. 🙂 Personally I don’t miss it even a tiny bit now, but having it as an option would be a good thing.
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[James Ewart] “So say I have tampered with the audio and you like what you have done and therefore do not want to Shift F Option R because that will get me back to square one. BUT I do want the audio back in sync. What then?”
I guess it depends on what you mean… If by “back in sync” you mean that it’s in sync, but detached for some reason and you’ve eq’d/effected it in some way, then I’d copy/match/replace/paste effects. In that case I wouldn’t have detached it in the first place though. If you’ve thrown it out of sync, for a cheat or something, and then messed with the audio. I’d just comp it back to a single clip, as putting “back in sync” would destroy your cheat.
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[Oliver Peters] “here permissions and control and locking come into play are in how many users can simultaneously write to the data files at the same time. Avid can do this, because each bin is a separate data file, so Editor A is working on a sequence that exists in Bin A and Editor B is working on a copy of that same sequence that exists in Bin B. Many film projects have 2-10 people all working on the exact same, common, master Avid project. The process works, because at the end of the day, some human has to compare the two (or more) sequences and decide which is the final version or what the combination of these should be the final.”
Thanks for that, having not cut on MC in a multi-editor scenario I never knew exactly how that worked. So, in theory… If X libraries were multi-user, you’d be able to (somehow) bring in an Event for each editor, all of whom would start with an identical project. Every user would see all the events, but could only work in their own unless it was “released” to a single user, at which point the projects could be combined. Then, everyone takes theirs back, rinse/repeat?
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[James Ewart] “I do miss “slip into sync” and “move into sync” for this kind of stuff. It would be nice to have this option having “detached” audio. Actually having started with Avid MC this was the thing about FCP (1.2) that I loved the most. So helpful.”
Agree in theory, but in practice, in X, you really don’t need it. The only reason to detach audio in X is to intentionally move it out of sync, or upcut it or something. Again, if the connection point is correct, it’s stays where you put it. To re-sync, just match back and replace. 2 keystrokes in X vs 1 right click in 7.
Not saying it wouldn’t be nice as an option, but it’s kind of superfluous. It’s easy to screw up sync with tracks, that’s why the out of sync indicator exists. In X, you have to break sync deliberately.
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[Neil Gowan] ” I want to detach audio and slip to better in/out points, but I don’t want to have that just dangle as a connected clip. Re-attach clip would be great. Cleaner, safer.”
Well, in a tracked system it would always be disconnected anyway, so I don’t see the difference. As long as the connection point is to the proper clip it’ll always stay in sync. Or, as long as the A/V are the same length after you slip it, you can just hit OPT-G to comp it into a single container.
If the Audio extends beyond the video you’ll have to pop out of the primary first to expand and trim it, or just expand A/V and trim the video in the primary after you comp it. There are number of ways to do this, unlike with tracks, where the audio is always “dangling”. 😉
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[Neil Gowan] “and there must be some better way.
Anybody know an answer?”
Actually, if I’m understanding you now… you want to disable the video while you screen/cut up clips, then re-enable it for the cut? If that’s the case, just turn off the Video role in the index. No need to create a new one, as all video gets this role by default. If you need it just for individual bits in a cut or something then yes, creating a dedicated role(s) is the war to go…
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[Frank Velasco] “I tried it and doesn’t work. Is it because I have 10.1.1?”
Nope… it’s always been that command, unless I’m misunderstanding. Are you just trying to detach the Audio from a video clip? Like this?
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[Neil Gowan] ” and there must be some better way.”
IF u want to replace the pix above the audio while keeping the original, just pop the clip below the primary.
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[Frank Velasco] “If you find out how to “unlink” the “Link” feature please let me know.”
SHIFT-CONTROL-S
FWIW, this post is over a year old, and written by someone who had absolutely no clue what they were doing. Doing what the OP described is trivially easy and takes at most 2 keystrokes. Read the Manual.
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