[David Lewis]

Thanks tony but the upgrade version says “discontinued by manufacturer.”

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/639516-REG/Apple_MB643Z_A_Final_Cut_Studio_3.html

I suppose I may have to buy the full version (if in fact it is still available.) Wouldn’t that be a kick in the pants, to pay $1,000 for a program that you know will never be upgraded and will sooner or later be unusable?

[David Lewis]

thanks david i will try that. in the meantime, here’s the error message:

Name: Rough Cut
Submission Time: 12/1/10 9:52:16
Owner: dave
Time Elapsed: 0:42:13
Time Remaining: 0:00:00
Percent Complete: 100
Status: Failed

and here is the final message from the log report, where the error first appears:

[David Lewis]

I’m a documentary producer disappointed by the inability of FCP 5.1.4 to make subclips out of multiclps. I started cutting my most recent project thinking it could. For my first three-camera interview, I synced up all three cameras and made it into one long multiclip for screening and making selects. When I discovered I couldn’t make subclips from multi-clips, I decided to just blade out the portions I wanted, and copy-and-paste them into a new sequence. So far so good: They still act like multiclips.
After I had selected about two dozen passages of varying lengths, I realized they all had the same name so I couldn’t tell them apart. I decided to rename them. For each (multi)clip, I made it an independent clip and then renamed it in the item properties field. But then I wanted to put them all in one bin to help me arrange them. But when I dragged them into a bin, they all appeared with the same name again (i.e., the name they had before I renamed them.) So my question is, is this process going to work for me down deeper in the workflow? When I need to transfer it to a new workstation, for post-production or whatever, or export and EDL or XML, will it screw up things and I’ll have to start from scratch again?
I’ve searched the threads here and at Apple, and while I see others are having the same issues, I didn’t find a solution other than to go back to making my selects first, on the A camera, and then syncing up manually with the other cameras and stacking them, bite by bite, on the timeline. I’ve done this before (I’ve even used pen-and-scissors on the transcripts!) but I thought the multiclip was supposed to be and would be more efficient — AND allow me to see the different angles at the same time so I can choose the best shots in real time instead of going back and forth by blading out one video track or disabling another.
I’m finding it hard to believe that I’ve stumbled across a solution that so many with more experience have not found, so I thought I’d throw it out here to see what the possible issues are.
Without such a solution, it seems the multiclip function is only good for “live” cutting (since I have no experiecne with features I won’t comment on how it works in that scenario.) I’ve seen comments to that affect on the discussion boards — is that the consensus? I’d rather know now, at the beginning of this project, then find out down the road.

Thanks!

Dave

[David Lewis]

well I’ve come across the same problem and come up with a different workaround. I put the whole interview (3 cameras) in one sequence as a multiclip, then logged it. Now I’m just going through and blading out the bites I want, copying them and pasting them into a new sequence. It seems to have arrived in the new sequence as its own multiclip, all synced up. Of course, I’m going to have to go through and rename each of the new multiclips so I can tell what they are, then drop them into a bin, I suppose, so they are in the browser as stand-alones. Subclipping a multiclip would be so much easier! But, at least at this (early point) this seems to be more efficient than building each bite on separate tracks, etc….

best,
Dave

[David Lewis]

sorry, problem has gone away, should have posted sooner. seemed to be a render problem although it wasn’t showing in the timeline. I don’t know how they all got unrendered at once or why they didn’t show up as unrendered in the timeline, but when I walked away for a bit and came back aftere auto-render they were all working fine again. thanks for the suggestion!

[David Lewis]

thanks tom….

[David Lewis]

thanks!

[David Lewis]

thank you both. I feel like a dunderhead. I hadn’t emptied the trash because I was worried I might have deleted something I needed, but with a little more care I followed instructions and of course it worked out fine.

[David Lewis]

Correct! give that man a cigar….~smile~…..thanks….

[David Lewis]

jerry, turned out to be dirty heads…~sheepish grin~…thanks for your help….