Chris Faber
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The issue is that there is no way to organize custom titles inside Final Cut. If I mistakenly save a custom title that I create in a “3D Titles” category in the titles browser, when the title isn’t 3D I can’t move it to another location in the browser. The only way to move it into a correct category is to do it in the finder.
It actually works fine in the sense that when you open up FCPX after doing this, the custom titles are where you placed them in the finder.
The problem is that custom titles that have been used in a timeline go offline. Apple could and should fix this, and has a variety of ways it could go. The simplest would simply be to create the ability to organize custom titles and generators from within the program.
Hey, let’s ask for that through a feature request.
Chris Faber
Faber Productions
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I’ve got this issue. I’d love to know if anybody’s found a solution to this — other than editing an xml. Perhaps a third party program?
If not, Andreas could you share more details on how to edit the xml to point titles in the timeline to the new locations. I got myself into this because I wanted to re-organize more logically where my custom titles resided. I did this externally (because there is no way to do it internally as far as I could see.). Now in the browser things are well organized. And all titles in all timelines that use my custom lower thirds are offline.
If I understand correctly, I can export the timeline xml, find those titles in the text and somehow rewrite to tell it where to find the right ones?
I’d love to see a sample of the code change in an xml.
Thanks!
Chris Faber
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Hi Fedor!
It’s always fun when I get a response to this thread even years after I posted it.
With respect to your first method, the whole point is being able to do it directly in the browser and not have to put it into a timeline. You find it in the browser, type w and in it goes into the video you’re creating. Having the clip in the timeline, or *a* timeline isn’t helpful for that.
With regard to your second method, two things: yes, it finds the clip, but I think you are mistaken about the marker being highlighted: that’s not something I see.
Either way, with respect to the former part of your second method, as I pointed out in earlier posts yes it pulls up the clip, but if you have multiple markers on that clip (say the clip is a 45 minute interview), you have to look through it by eye to find the marker. In contrast, name your Favorites, and later when you search for words in that name — and filter for favorites — just those favorites appear. So type “dog cries” in the search field and the only thing that is called up are all favorites that have the words “dog cries” in them — probably just one. Then you have the moment you are looking for.
You can’t do this with markers. You search for words in markers and what happens is, as you say, clips with that marker — and perhaps three dozen more — pop up.
It’s five years since I posted this and I still can’t believe that when the favorites appear, they do with the clip names they are one, and with the favorites under them with a closed discloser triangle. I want to see the name of the favorite immediately; that’s what I was searching for. One trick on this if you have any number of them, do ‘select all’ — command A — then hit the right arrow, and all of the discloser triangles spin open to show the favorites below them.
Warm regards,
Chris
Chris Faber
Faber Productions
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Problem solved. I was avoiding a full reinstall of FCP 10.2, but went ahead and did that. Root and branch uninstall of 10.2 and Motion 5 (I also uninstalled FxFactory as well, but I doubt that was it), then reinstall first FCP, then Motion, and now all is well. A simple solution I hope can be helpful to others who come across the issue.
Chris Faber
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Typo. Was writing about FCP first.
Yes, both updated. Not the problem.
Chris Faber
Faber Productions
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So, crazily, I just solved this problem for myself. Go back to 8.0 of premiere pro, the supported card txt file returns; you can put your card on the list, and it gives you Cuda GPU acceleration.
Now get this: install the latest After Effects 2014 — and it works, ray-tracing and all. This is under Preferences/Previews/GPU information. It now gives you “GPU unsupported” option, and lets you “enable untested” cards. Before going back one version on Premiere, this wasn’t happening, at least on my machine. I’m using the most CUDA (7.0.36)
Hope this helps.
Chris Faber
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Hey Kevin,
How about on the Mac? There is no such tab in the Cuda Preference Pane. I’ve got a GTX 770 that used to work with a previous version of CC, and now no. Do you know a way to do it?
Chris Faber
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So here I am three years after my original post on this and despite my comment that this issue was a deal killer, I am using FCPX as my NLE for my business.
Here’s the best workaround/solution that I have, using the fewest keystrokes that I can manage to think of:
• Be in list view.
• Mark in/out or range select the area you want.
• Hit the F key, which creates a favorite labelled “Favorite.” The Favorite is semi-selected under the clip after you do this. Which is to say that in the list of favorites or markers on the clip it’s got a grayness to it.
• Hit Tab. This fully selects that favorite.
• Hit Enter to make “Favorite” editable. Type the description, or paraphrase/quote the interviewee, or whatever.
• Do this for all your media.As a reminder, what we are looking to do here is separate from the functionality that keyword collections provide. Those give you another form of organization and search-ability — but not the ability to search for one specific moment in time. Perhaps the thing you remember and want to search for is when someone said “he hates compassion.” And you need to find it in 20 hours of footage (or even two hours of footage). If that’s the only time you remember ever having used that word, it would be absurd to think you would want to have created a keyword collection for this. Or you used the word “compassion” in a number of different contexts: 1) “He hates compassion” 2) “Wow, what a compassionate response” 3) “a compassionate look”; three instances. You’d still never think to create a keyword collection for compassion, nor would it make sense to do so.
But you know you used that word when some guy said he hates compassion, you don’t remember who it was, you don’t remember where it was, and you need to find it.
Favorites are searchable and can be filtered. You type “compassion” in the search field and filter for favorites. Matching favorites show up. Sort of.
What you actually get is a list of the moments, the favorites — but the name of the favorites are not visible. What you are looking at are, say, twenty copies of the name of the clip that has the favorites hidden under them, like this:
> Bobby’s Int.
> Bobby’s Int.
> Bobby’s Int.
> Bobby’s Int.
> Bobby’s Int.
> Joe’s Int.
> Joe’s Int.
> Joe’s Int.
> Joe’s Int.The named favorites you’re looking for are under each of these. There is a solution to this that works pretty well, but first a small rant:
This is absurd. There is simply no justification for presenting the favorites in this way. I can only think that the coders imagine everyone will look at favorites in Filmstrip view — and decide simply on the basis of the thumbnail, because even in Filmstrip view all the favorites have the name of the clips under them — not the favorites. Or perhaps they don’t think people will even name the favorites. I don’t know. I do know that markers are not a usable solution at all, because you can’t filter for them.
Please, everyone, write to Apple with a feature request: when sorting for favorites SHOW THE NAMES OF THE FAVORITES in the filtered results, not the clip names. Then you’d just see a list of the favorites, with your text right there. One simple change to what is currently a ridiculous implementation and problem solved.
There is a workaround in the meantime. To the left of all the clip names is a disclosure triangle. Click one, you see what’s underneath. This is an obvious thing. But doing that one by one in a long list of them is a pain and time consuming, so do this:
Select all. Hit the right arrow key on your keyboard. All the disclosure triangles open up at once to reveal the favorites underneath.
So what am I still complaining about? It’s just two more keyboard strokes than it would be otherwise. What’s the big deal?
Well, you continue to see the clip names, which is unnecessary because they are just the same names over and over again and don’t add information, and you also see keywords associated with the clips, and markers if you have them, all of which are visual clutter that slow you down when all you want to do is read/scan the favorites. They also take up vertical space, meaning you can see less of them all at once than you would be able to otherwise.
Also, it’s just dumb. It bugs me.
As I think about it, though, having one clip name, under which your matching favorites for that clip are listed — the name of the clip just once — would be a good idea. So what you would see is a clip name (again, just once for that clip) with the favorites of that clip that match your search criteria listed under it — and nothing else. And while we’re at it, let’s have the clip names pop up with the disclosure triangle already open, revealing a nice clean list of just the favorites that match (i.e. that have “compassion”) under it. To easily distinguish this presentation of information from a normal list of the clip when not filtered by a search term, perhaps it would be necessary to indicate that the clip is filtered.
It could look like this:
â–½ Bobby’s Int. (Filtered)
* I hate compassion
* I don’t really hate compassion
* compassion is what my life is all aboutChris Faber
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This is a year later, but I have a diagnosis as to at least one cause for the “missing or offline titles, effects or generators” message, and an effective solution whatever the cause. I had this come up, did a search, didn’t find a clear answer and then troubleshooted on my own.
In my case I had a clip with an “unsharp mask” filter on it that I had applied when the library was on another computer. This is a filter that I published to Final Cut from Motion so I could use it more easily. As near as I can tell when you do that, then bring the library to another instance of Final Cut, it doesn’t see the filter anymore, and hence it is “missing”.
A key piece of information here is that it still won’t see it if you also publish the filter, in my case the unsharp mask, from Motion to FCPX, on the new computer. So what I had was an unsharp mask filter applied when I was on another computer, a unsharp mask in my effects window that I published after moving to this computer — and Final Cut Pro doesn’t recognize them as the same thing. The unsharp mask I have applied in the project is still “missing.”
I know this is true for unsharp mask, but may also be true for other filters. Likely so.
Here’s how you find your offending clip with an offending effect — or any cause of this message I should think. Create a snapshot of your project, open that, then go through a series of “Boolean deletes”. Start by deleting the 2nd half of your timeline. Try to export. If it starts to let you, you know that the problem is in the 2nd half of the timeline. If it doesn’t let you, undo, then delete the first half of the timeline and try to export. If it lets you, then you know the problem is in the first half. You can keep narrowing down to smaller and smaller sections this way, until clip by clip you find it. It’s quite a fast technique.
This will work even if you’ve got a problematic filter applied all over the place. You’ll keep paring down, not being able to export, but suddenly you will. Undo and continue to narrow this way. In the end you’ll still have a single clip with one example of the offending filter (if it’s a filter). Then you know to look for that filter throughout the timeline, delete them here and there to test, and hopefully problem solved.
Hope this is helpful.
Chris Faber
Faber Productions
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Hi Jason,
Thanks for writing this post.
Yeah, I tried this already, but it has the same problem that markers have: a search for what you are looking for returns the whole clip, not the favorite itself. So say you have a long clip with many named favorites on it, as well as a bunch of keywords, and you’re looking to find the favorite you remember labeling “The monkey squats and laughs.” You remember that moment and only that moment will do. If you search for “Monkey squats,” you just get the same long clip you could already be staring at ’cause you’re already pretty sure it was on that clip. Then you still have to do the same thing you would have had to do anyway: scroll through it looking for that favorite by eye.
This is not very helpful.
What we need is to be able to jump to that moment in time when we search for it, to have the favorite selected when it’s found. That would queue the first image of that favorite into the viewer. Then I could hit play to review it and see if it’s as great as I remember, or if I should go try to find the moment when the baboon squats instead.
It’s what we would want for markers, as well: we want the search function to take us directly to the marker we’re looking for. It’s true that using favorites for this would be better because you would have the range set already — but it works for neither markers nor favorites. Unlike favorites, with markers I can move from one to the other in a clip rapidly using Control-‘, but if I have dozens of markers (which I often have in my documentary work), it’s still a huge pain.
In Final Cut 7 markers were searchable in this way, although with a limitation. The disclosure triangle revealing or hiding the markers on a clip or clips in the browser had to be open for those markers to be searchable. I’m working on a documentary right now. For an hour of material I have 150 markers or more. In FCP X I’d have to scroll through them or Control-‘ my way through one by one to find my moment. I have 40 hours of material, so FCP X could at least find me the particular hour the moment was on by returning that clip when I search, which is nice as far as it goes, which is not very far.
This problem also exists when using the notes field. A search returns the clip with the note somewhere on it, not the moment with that note. I am surprised that more editors aren’t up in arms about this. While many did not use markers to label and search for moments, I know many who used note fields for this. I think not many editors with long clips that need detailed marking have made the effort, or did and simply bolted the moment they realized this couldn’t be done any more.
It’s a deal killer for me — and I love FCP X otherwise. I’ll use it for small projects, but for big ones I’m going to have to move to something else. Premiere also doesn’t allow searchable markers in browser clips. I’m hoping that this will change in CS6. If not, I’ll have to move to AVID, which does have the feature — or to Lightworks when it comes out for the Mac. It also has this feature.
All the best,
Chris