[Don Smith]

Here’s a MacBreak Studio episode that speaks directly to what you are talking about at about 7:15:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lMLNgAEgXWY

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[Don Smith]

Just checking the obvious here… is it possible that you’re seeing red because you’ve recently changed the preferences to use Proxy media? If you’re lucky enough for this to be the problem just change the preferences back to use original media.

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[Don Smith]

Hhhmmm… Are you talking about dragging a range on a clip in the Viewer and having it stick while you drag select another range? If so, drag select the first range then, holding the Command key, drag select another range. Rinse and repeat. All range selects remain.

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[Don Smith]

Be aware of all the audio plug-ins in the Effects tab. Scroll down and you’ll see them with a category called ‘Levels’. Eleven of those in the Levels category are from Logic. There’s a number of plug-ins there. Also be aware that you can go to the Audio section of the Inspector and at the bottom of the Audio Enhancements pane you’ll see a right angle bracket next to Audio Enhancements that takes you to a Loudness pane where you can adjust Loudness and Uniformity, but using a percentage gauge. That doesn’t help you with db parameters but it might be a good first step at initial compression before using one of the Logic plugins.

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[Don Smith]

I’m just trying to understand what you want. Saying “Obviously contradictory behavior to what you suggest is sensual in some way.” sounds insulting while containing no actual meaning. I’m not here to insult you or anyone. I’m here to debate a point.

*IF* you don’t have linking on… *THEN* its simpler in FCP7? For me, I found it to be much less clicking to have linking on in FCP7 normally and then using the Option key to independently move audio only when needed. I don’t understand how making sure linking is always off and its inherent need for much more clicking in normal editing just to save a Option key once in a while.

Back to your issue; you want to see extended audio both when a clip is expanded and when it’s not expanded. That’s my take on your original post at least. Am I misunderstanding this? I can understand the want for a thin line indicator but how do you display the extended audio that’s darkened or not darkened without covering adjacent video unless the audio is on a different level (expanded from the clip)? That’s what I’m trying to understand. There’s a simple way to see the extended audio but you’re not happy with that.

And, back to that ‘darkened’ desire. ‘Darkened’ means ‘disabled’ in FCPX. Don’t you think darkened but active audio would be a violation of consistency?

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[Don Smith]

Further, just remember that expanding a clip to make an L or J cut is a simple matter of double-clicking on the audio part. Double-clicking again tucks it back in. That only affects the one clip. I’ve come to really like the quick double-click thing because then I don’t have to hold the Option key to move the audio independently of the video like in FCP7. I understand Bret’s wish for a visual indication that a cut is an L or J with a visual thin line extending and it’s a good idea.

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[Don Smith]

I see what you’re saying Bret but I still contend that nothing is wrong here.

No, the expanded audio is not seen when the clip is not expanded (although its still there), but to be seen the sound would have to pop out to expand beyond the adjacent clips and co-exist with sound that the adjacent clips might have over the same moment in time. That’s expanded. You want to see the extended audio then you expand the clip. How can you see extended audio when you’re telling the clip to tuck in and be not show as expanded? You’ll have to draw me a picture of what you WANT to see that doesn’t involve expanding the clip and still see the extended audio because when the video and audio of the same clip are at different lengths either you have to tuck in for the video length or expand to see the audio length. I don’t see how you want to see the extended audio while not expanding the clip so the audio can be free to show a different length.

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[Don Smith]

FCPX is doing exactly what you’re telling it to do.

The lower clip has dissolves at either end of of an unexpanded clip. That tells FCPX to dissolve both the video and audio.

You don’t see audio outside the edges of the clip because you just told FCPX to dissolve the audio into the audio of nothing. It’s supposed to be nothing outside the clip because that’s what you commanded FCPX to do. Don’t want the dissolve to affect the audio? Then expand the clip first by double-clicking on the audio part. Then, as in the upper screen shot, a dissolve on the video has no effect on the audio.

I find that the way FCPX handles video and audio transitions is far better than the hassle that FCP7 had you go through. For FCP7 a dissolve only affect video (CMD-T). If you wanted the audio to be dissolved as well that was a separate action; highlight the audio transition point and OPT-CMD-T. Then, if you changed your mind about the duration of the audio transition and changed it, then the video transition time above it would also change. Drove me crazy sometimes.

The way FCPX handles is far superior.

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[Don Smith]

Jeremy..

RE: “There are both Event render files and Project render files.”

This is a good example of why I love this forum. I learned something new. Thank you.

I can see how there would be Event render files because you can edit within the Event folder in addition to editing in the Project.

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[Don Smith]

Just yesterday I again studied moving and copying Events and Projects.

There’s a big difference between organizing Events and Organizing Projects.

To organize an Event means to copy all external (to the Event) media into the Event.

To organize a Project, it only means to copy related Events (or used media) to same hard drive as where the Project lives.

Someone here suggested that render files are moved to the Event when you organize the Event. I don’t believe that’s true. Render files live in the Project folder.

But, there’s no rule that says you HAVE to organize an Event. For me, I keep things in the finder folder for my project like PowerPoints and Word and Excel documents. If I want an Event and its Projects on the same drive I’ll also manually copy my work folder as well.

Having a Project that draws from multiple Events that live on other or multiple hard drives presents the same conundrum as the argument for multi-engine airplanes; Yes, if one engine goes out then you have a spare that will get you safely down but it can also be said that having two engines doubles the likelyhood of having an engine failure. Now, of course, two engines are better than one but do you really want your Project crippled because drawing from, say, three drives and three Events triples the chance that one of the drives will fail?

Don Smith

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