[Darren Roark]

[Tangier Clarke] “Perhaps it’s a bug; albeit a longstanding bug over several FCP X versions. FCP should ignore any roles I don’t assign for export”

I completely agree with that. If it’s turned off it shouldn’t go out to a master like it always has been, but I found out the hard way that isn’t the case here.

This is a puzzler, so I did a test. Made a project with camera files with audio, plus zoom audio. I selected all the camera files, set their audio to ‘camaudio’ my fake role, then had dialogue and music set as roles. I had no camera audio. I even deselected some camera audio clips and left the rest active. Everything went to the stereo mix as it should. I had no camera audio at all in the exported master.

You created the role called ‘audio mix’ right? Is it a role or a subrole?

[Darren Roark]

Not sure if I understand you fully but would this work? https://www.coremelt.com/products/lock-and-load-x.html

It’s pretty amazing and very versatile.

[Darren Roark]

[Jordan Mena] “The best way to export without any audio issues is to duplicate your project. Call it “online” or “Mix” Select all media clips and detach audio. Once the audio is detached simply delete them. Then add your mix and stems with proper roles. If you need your scratch audio you can always go back to your prior “creative cut” if need be.”

Camera files with video and audio have separate roles. (Default is V1&A1) You can change just the audio to it’s own role that you can call camaudio or whatever you like under edit roles. I haven’t had any surprises since I got the hang of it. It was not easy.

Jordan’s suggestion is a great way to be completely sure, but you can consistently control this. I have a feeling that when the next version of X comes out this will be easier.

[Darren Roark]

Can you post a screen grab of your export settings? It was really tough for me to get my head around how to set everything up. It’s the only thing about X that makes me miss tracks at all.

[Darren Roark]

What roles are you exporting? For multi track qt’s I set a different role for each track for export. L, C, R,Ls, Rs, and stereo right and left. When adding them you have to delete what is there then add each track in the track order you want. It might be the extra sound is that the default is still there.

[Darren Roark]

I didn’t know they updated it for Mavericks but they did https://assistedediting.intelligentassistance.com/downloads/Event%20Manager%20X.dmg

I get the feeling after messing with iMovie we aren’t going to be needing this much longer. But it’s been keeping me sane the past year and a half, very grateful for it.

[Darren Roark]

[Eric Mueller] “Some fairly positive reviews for this as a desktop monitor:

https://www.amazon.com/Seiki-Digital-SE39UY04-39-Inch-Ultra/dp/B00DOPGO2G/re...

Anyone done anything like this on the PC side? I’d love a giant single display instead of my current dual 24″ (assuming it wouldn’t ruin my eyesight and emissions were clean).”

Yeah, this does look pretty great playing back Red footage from an Ultrastudio 4K. There is a hack that enables the retina settings in the displays preferences. It would be interesting to see what it would look like. The price is right.

[Darren Roark]

[John Davidson] “I admit it. I installed it on about half out macs today. Nothing bad has happened…..yet….”

I’ve been on it for two months using FCP X and the only side effects so far are the fullscreen dual display mode being hard to navigate and X running much much faster.

I don’t use fullscreen at the moment as I’m still trying to learn it. I did make a dmg of my boot drive and backed up all my projects and events first. You really never know.

[Darren Roark]

[Rich Rubasch] “Anyone running FCP7 load up Mavericks? Report?”

Working fine for me. I haven’t installed any plugins yet which is the real sticking point for 7 projects.

Even though it’s still in beta, Resolve 10 is looking like a wolf in sheep’s clothing as far as converting legacy projects goes. You can use it to go from fcp7 to x, or x to avid, or really anything to anything.

So far I’m getting mixed results as far as sound tracks carrying over, but it is still beta.

[Darren Roark]

[Rick Lang] “The D300 has 2GB on each card, the D500 has 3GB per card, and the D700 has 6GB on each card. Surely having 6GB will be enough… until the next great thing we can’t imagine being without arrives at least.”

I remember ‘back in the day’ of 2006 where 512mb was an insane amount of vram.