David Burch
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Try this:
Synch up the clips on the timeline (I’m assuming you have a slate or something similar? If not use the “Synchronize Clips” command from the event viewer).
Make a compound clip once they’re synched, and turn off the upper clip by selecting it and hitting ‘v’. This lets you watch your program underneath and still see the other angle via the filmstrip.
Use the razor blade to cut segments you want overlaid, select those segments independently, and turn them back on using ‘v’. The rest of your track will still be hidden. If you wish, you can then drop the clip you turned on into the main sequence so you can add transitions.
It’s kind of a clumsy work-around I know, but it will probably get me through some projects until Apple gets around to adding a proper multiclip feature. For other, more involved multiclip projects, I’ll probably have to start my edit in FCP7, export the finished multiclip edit, and finish the project in FCPX (or just do the whole thing in 7).
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Just tested it. You don’t need to use favorites. Simply select the range you want, hit cmd+K, and type a keyword like “edits”. A new collection will show up with only the range you just added the keyword to, not the entire clip. Hope that helps.
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What about simply adding a keyword “edits” to all your ranges? That will group them all into a collection that you can browse later.
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After playing with it for a few hours it’s not so bad if you keep the inspector open all the time, or at least while doing this stage of the edit. It’s funny, the way FCPX works I find myself spending a lot more time on setup than actual editing, but that’s mainly because the edits themselves are much more fluid to do once the setup is complete.
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Tom is correct. The way the program was designed was to have a single storyline that acts as the “backbone” of the rest of the project. In the case of a music video, that backbone would be the music itself. Simply place that into the primary storyline (hit E) and then connect all your video clips (Q). Then you can move them around at will without disrupting the primary storyline. If you want to lock the clips into position, combine them with the primary storyline into a compound clip (command+G). That will collapse any clips you have selected with the storyline and hide them so you can’t accidentally move them out of place.
Hope that helps.
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I’m having some interesting issues, which I think is related to memory. The program is remarkable stable most of the time, but after editing for a few hours (I have several large projects open), the program starts to bog down a bit. When this happens, quitting and restarting seems to be the solution. However, quitting the program takes several minutes. It appears to hang, but if I just let it go it will eventually quit on its own and open right back up like nothing was wrong.
Another related issue which I know other people have been seeing is that sometimes the program will refuse to “undo”; the option is simply greyed out in the menu bar. When this happens, the program becomes much more unstable, and in my experience will not save any work beyond that point. After digging around a bit it seems to be a permissions problem; I’ve repaired permissions and haven’t seen it crop up since, but it’s very odd that the permissions would be messed up in the first place, as I did a clean install with two partitions before installing FCPX.
Anyway, I’m curious if anybody else has been seeing these same issues. I’m running a brand new 17″ MBP with the 2.3Ghz i7 and 8G of ram; basically, the fastest MBP I could buy. I’m working on about 5 different 2+ hour projects at once, each with 8 tracks of 48k audio. I’m guessing the 8G of memory I have isn’t quite up to all that, but the program should be able to allocate memory correctly, unless there’s some kind of leak in the software.
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You can toggle the skimmer off by hitting “s”. I’ve found this quite useful sometimes.
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You can see all the clips you are using in your sequence in a list view. Open up the drawer on the bottom right next to the film reel icon. It’s the same place you can view all your tags (markers) you’ve put into your project.
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Thanks, Brendan. I was just coming here to post the same thing but you beat me to it 🙂 I have to give props to Steve Martin of Ripple Training…he replied to my email within an hour and gave me this solution. Of course, props to Brendan as well for answering my question on here!
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I’m just curious…once you have your audio and video synched, why would you want to break the synch? Why not just nest them into a compound clip and be done with it?