[Duncan Craig]

This is a problem I’ve heard about. I’ll be renaming the files before importing them.
Then backup those files to my archives.

Hopefully this is possible…?

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[Duncan Craig]

Looking at the two files on FCPX scopes, it looks like the white are getting clipped.
And the black are lifted too.

Something off with the colour space conversion perhaps. Can you simply rewrap the original, then look at the scopes. Then try using compressor to convert to ProRes.

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[Duncan Craig]

Thanks, yes I’ve just been doing these actually.
Though I thought you were referring to some kind of paste function to anywhere on the timeline.
Duncan.

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[Duncan Craig]

“you can paste the color-correction alone with all masks, but without any other effects/scales etc.
It is in the Commandset, you need to make a keyboard-shortcut, because the command is not in the menu”

I’v been trying to find this function, can tell me where it is?

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[Duncan Craig]

It’s seems the file is missing from creativecow now (how now) Is it available anywhere else?
Duncan.

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[Duncan Craig]

Jason, thanks. That’s huge.

You’re right about misconceptions, usual story I suppose. Having the Keyword Shortcuts pop up each time, drove me to thinking I had to use a shortcut, but duh, I see you just type anything into the top window. That’s it…! What got me is that if you type in nine keywords on one clip, it fills in the nine presets for you, the top entry box disappears and when you go to a new clip the same 9 show up again.

From the FCPX manual:

‘Assign keywords using keyboard shortcuts
To add keyword phrases to your clips using keyboard shortcuts, you must first assign keywords and keyword phrases to the keyboard shortcuts’.

I read too fast and it went into my brain as: ‘To add keyword phrases to your clips you must first assign keywords and keyword phrases to the keyboard shortcuts’.

Also good to know that keeping manual finder-based backups of CurrentVersion.fcpevent and CurrentVersion.fcpproject will probably get you out of any trouble. Great info. Again thanks!.

Duncan.

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[Duncan Craig]

Have you tried all the usual suggestions.
Restarts, permissions, new project, new media, trash preferences?

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[Duncan Craig]

I’m very new to FCPX (bought it on Friday).

If I’m reading this right you can only have 9 keywords, so only 9 ‘bins’.
You could use a combination of keywords to make 9×9, but what if you get part way through making your keywords and assigning them and then need a tenth which doesn’t fit the setup you have in place…

I think smart collections based on named favourites look a better bet, but it’s a shame that the names of a favourite clip section don’t make it to the timeline. It does mean naming a favourite and then creating a smart collection to house, but that’s almost the same as creating a bin and dragging clips to it I suppose…

I don’t see Events as anything to be happy about, it’s just part of the workflow.
With FCP6 I’m really happy with my archiving strategy for media and projects. I keep a weekly incrementing zipped copy every FCP project, livetype and motion project I’ve ever made, and sync it all to Dropbox and a second Mac. Media lives on matching pairs of USB2 drives, I use an eSata as a scratch disk.

With FCPX I can’t put a project on my system drive anymore and synchronise it to Dropbox because the project contains massive ProRes render files.

Overall I like FCPX, it’s a refreshing change from the usual NLEs and seems quite stable on my 2008 MBP. The Event window is always too small even when you drag it around, and I wish the viewer on second monitor would show 100% of the image without the menus around the outside on my second 1920×1080 screen.

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[Duncan Craig]

In case you didn’t know (I’m new to FCPX) you can delete the render files for the Event and the Project directly within FCPX. But you’ll have to delete the transcoded files manually I think. Also you might want to delete analysis files too if they are too big.

Quit FCPX, throw away some of the unwanted folder contents a folder at a time and launch FCP again, it it’s not happy, then quit FCPX get the files back out the trash. But from what I’ve tested it seems pretty happy whatever you do to it.

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[Duncan Craig]

I have .3 here too…

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