[Dustin Bowser]

Is there some way that I can have the fact that the audio tracks are mono to begin with carry through when the multicam sequence is created? I have many clips to sync, and having to go into each one specifically to reassign tracks and stuff is something that I’m trying to figure out how to avoid.

When you say, send which track I want wherever I want it, what do you mean in this circumstance?

[Dustin Bowser]

Anyone have any ideas?

[Dustin Bowser]

That’s it!

Thank you.

[Dustin Bowser]

What’s weird is that when I select the clip and look at INFO in the inspector, it has the right event labeled, so it knows where it’s supposed to go.

[Dustin Bowser]

For some reason, every single multi clip that is in this project, when I match frame to the clip, it just adds the clip to my Project Event, and doesn’t pull it up from where it should be in the Event it was edited in from.

[Dustin Bowser]

Everything is in the same library.

For some reason it has gotten it into it’s head with certain clips that when I match frame, suddenly the clip is showing up in my Projects Event, when there is no way it was edited in from there, because it only existed in it’s proper event.

Is there a way to delete all these extraneous and redundant clips in my Project Event without messing a bunch of stuff up, and have it point back to the event that it properly came from?

[Dustin Bowser]

Yes, duping every clip in the event is exactly what I’m looking for. That is my point.

So if I have to go through and do it manually, is there some way to see each event that is referenced, or am I going to have to go in and match frame every single clip to find out if I missed one…

The reason I don’t want everything collected in one Event with keyword collections is because the keyword collections will put things together that I don’t want together.

For instance — Each Event right now has a keyword collection called ‘Synced’ to indicated the clips that are synced multicam. As it is now, broken into Events, if I click that keyword collection I see only the synced clips for that shoot, which is what I want.

If I’m adding ‘synced’ to every synced clip, when I click the ‘synced’ keyword collection, I’m going to be seeing every synced clip from the whole shoot. Not what I want. I want my keywords specific to which part of the shoot its a part of. That is part of the problem with Keywords as they’re currently implemented, if you’ve used a keyword, then if you want to apply that keyword to something else they are going to live together whether you like it or not.

What’s nice about folders is that what you put in there is what there is, and what you take out is what there is, and you get to decide what to name it and where it goes in the hierarchy.

Keywords collect things in nice ways sometimes, but sometimes I don’t want them collected that way, as is my case with this project. Does that make sense why I would have things in Events as I do?

[Dustin Bowser]

As you say, Events are Bins, which is why I have things organized the way they are. Within each event, I already have many keyword collections related to only the footage in that bin (event) which is why putting everything in one Event isn’t an option.

It could potentially be possible if you could do multiple levels of keywording, similar to how folders work, but alas, yet another feature that would be nice that is missing..

I CAN just drag the events from my Main Library to my External one, but how am I going to know which events are referenced by this particular project? There also doesn’t seem to be any easy way to find out at a glance which events are referenced by a project. We used to have this in the Inspector Tab of the projects view…but no more Referenced Events information either….

Again I stress, this is a large project with a bunch of different footage all being brought together in one world. On smaller projects I understand that the organization to this level isn’t required. Which is probably why no one else is having these issues, because everyone else is smartly using Avid or Premiere at this point.

In FCP 7 it would be really easy to do why I’m trying to do, simply by duplicating the project and dumping the bins you don’t need. You can drag bins and things between projects very easily, and simply relink also very easily if necessary.

[Dustin Bowser]

I understand how libraries work, it’s just that the way they work isn’t conducive to any kind of flexibility of a project.

The reason I keep splitting off events is because all of my main media is a very large Raid, and there is too much footage to just copy around on an External, and plus I want the faster disk speed of the internal drives vs an external when editing on the main machine.

The reason I need 2 Libraries, instead of just one, is because different work is being done on each one, and then needs to be merged back together.

The whole concept of this is that this is an enormous project, shot similarly to a documentary, so there are mountains of footage, so parts need to be broken off, worked on, and then merged again with the Monster project (Library). In any other edit system that exists this would be an incredibly easy and straight forward process…

But my real question is — Are you just saying that the Copy Project with Referenced Events is just no longer in existence, because that is exactly the function I need to use.

Reorganizing the project is not an option, also because it’s organized in the way I need it based on the needs of the project. I understand how Events, Keywords, etc…work and have it organized the way that is best for this project. I understand completely how another editor, with different needs and different footage would want to organize things differently. This is not the case. Organization is not the problem, it’s how to simply get the Projects and Events back and forth.

I can’t understand for the life of me why this would be so difficult and not straight forward. This is a very very common thing to need to do in many post houses. No wonder no one is adopting this as an editing solution. I love the interface and I love the timeline workflow, but it’s this nonsense that is going to cause yet another editor to jump ship from FCPX.

I appreciate you trying to help by the way Jeremy, my frustration comes from the program, and the asinine way they’ve programmed certain things, and just arbitrarily taking way functions.

[Dustin Bowser]

Maybe what I’m trying to do isn’t clear…

I’m working on a feature film that has a separate event for each shoot day. Because of several factors, this is the reason things need to be broken up. There are many shoot days, which encompass the media, and there are more being added as the project is still in production.

I have been breaking off various events to work on on my laptop so that I can focus in on various sections, doing logging of dialogue and adding markers, making selects etc….

I have an Edit that I would like to split off from my main machine and keep working on, and I would like every Event that refers to the project to come along with it. I want the WHOLE event, not just the footage used in the edit. I want the event as it exists now, I don’t want anything moved, rearranged, reconsolidated or anything like that, because as I said, things are separated for specific reasons.

Now, before, this wasn’t an issue because there was a function that existed that was precisely what I’m needing.

Now however, there doesn’t seem to be any way to copy a project somewhere with anything but the actual media used.

Does this make sense what I’m trying to do?

Also, as I said, there are many events, so copying over manually one at a time is a completely ridiculous and frustrating solution that I want to stay completely away from.