[David Battistella]

How about this.

Select all the clips

Make compound clip

Place the vignette on the compound clip.

David

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[David Battistella]

Amazing and thanks for the quick response.

It’s really an elegant workflow.

Thanks,
David

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Here are the two dialogs…

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[Fabien Daguerre] “Otherwise, another workaround I often forget and that BenB reminded me, is that you can connect your video clip below primary storyline. It then acts like an audio clip (if there’s video on your primary storyline). And exports fine in OMF.”

Can you explain this a little better ?

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[David Battistella]

OK.

Much testing determines that you have to LEAVE AUDIO ATTACHED TO VIDEO IF

-you plan on using the free OMF exporter from FCP X to your favorite software mixing software.

The problem is this.

Let’s assume you have a lot of interview where you are not goingto use the picture and do some detailed audio editing. If you separate the audio from the video and get rid of the video and leave only the audio behind, that audio will not be recognized by the OMF exporter.

If the audio is left with the picture then you can export the audio to an OMF file.

try this:

Create a project, drag ten clips in and run the exporter.
No problem.

Duplicate the project.

select the clips, expand audio and video and break apart clip items.

Move the picture off the primary storyline and delete it.
Move the audio into the primary storyline (where you would edit it)
Export OMF = No audio or video in the sequence.

BUT.

GUESS WHAT.

Let’s say you turn off video and want to just edit the audio into the timeline.
If you add the clips in this manner then the OMF will work.

The problem is we don’t always know just what bit we will use on camera. My suggestion. Keep the video in the primary storyline and overwrite PICTURE ONLY when you are cloer to the end of your cut.

David

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[David Battistella]

It appears that once you break apart the clip items and remove the video reference the files becomes an

“unsupported clip” This means that when you have separated it from the video file it was attached to, you no longer have control over MONO, STEREO, DUAL MONO, etc.

The workaround is to always leave the video attached and only overwrite picture to the primary storyline. This seems to be the only way to keep the audio in tact.

It also means that double system is actually better in FCP X than single system sound because if you import sound files seperately then you have a chance to maintain a relationship to the channel configuration.

Learning curve. But seems like they made an aaumption that sound would not be split off from picture.

David

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[David Battistella]

Yes.

Massive bug.

if you break apart the items. Move the video off the primary storyline and delete it (leving only the audio) then you are pretty much left with audio that can no longer be called Stereo, Mono, Dual mono, etc. It’s just undefined and then OMF exporters do not see it as audio.

The only way out is to multitrack with roles, but that means NO HANDLES.
DUMB.

BAD.

David

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[David Battistella]

It’s wierd.

I think it has to do with breaking apart the clips and deleting the video portion (which I always do when I am into dialog editing mode.

If I open a new project and slap ten clips in there the project is fine.

If I break apart the audio and video and throw out the video it is fine.

If I remove a silent channe on import and then do the same steps then the file “looses” channel configuration and becomes an “unsupported clip”.

Wierd..

David

If I open

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From the AUTODUCK exporter….
ONE or MORE clips exported with quiet audio…?

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The OMF (autoducks 5.10 exporter) does not like any of the audio from this source.

It exports all kinds of other stuff, music, etc. But nothiing attached to clips or separated from clips seems to be recognized.

The audio is:

Linear PCM, 32 bit big-endian signed integer, 48000 Hz, 2.0

David

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