[Fedor Von hengstenberg]

Sorry, should I misunderstand your point. But when I go to a clip, either in the browser or inthe storyline, and add a marker by hitting M twice, I can enter a name or a phrase into the marker title field. Then there are two ways to find this moment in time, as you called it earlier. i) Clip in the storyline: Search the timeline index for the word/phrase. The marker will be highlighted int he index, so that you can click on it, and there you are. ii) Clip in the browser: Type the word/phrase into the search field. The browser in list view will show the clip, as you said, and when you open the disclosure triangle you will find the marker highlighted. Click on it and you are at your desired spot.

[Fedor Von hengstenberg]

Probably the easiest way to start such projects is to open a new project and hit alt-W to generate a default gap clip. Then make sure that you are on the first frame, choose your VO audio file in the browser and hit Q. Thus, it will be connected to the gap clip. You might want to click on the gap clip and change its duration to 5 frames or so. Then you can go on an append all your B roll into the primary storyline and edit to your heart’s content. The VO will stay with the gap clip. If you want to get rid of the gap clip at the end of your edit, move the VO connection point a few frames downstream, so that you can delete the gap clip w/o deleting the VO.

[Fedor Von hengstenberg]

Mark,
this might not be the solution for your problem, but once in a while I have to edit corporate webinars. Then I have i) a video or audio file of the presenter, ii) PNGs of the slides, iii) an in/out-timepoint list for the slides. What I do is to place the audio/video clip into the primary, then go through the in/out list and hit M to set markers at each point which takes only very few minutes. Afterwards, I go back to the start of the storyline, choose the range tool, range markers 1 and 2, choose the first PNG from the browser and hit Q. That connects the PNG with the exact length of the range. Then I range between 2 and 3, choose PNG 2 and hit Q, and so on. Very fast. At least, sufficiently fast for me 😉

[Fedor Von hengstenberg]

Just my 2 cents: I’ve had minor freeze frame issues in the past once in a while, where the freeze frame was generated from a completely different frame than the one I was trying to freeze. In these cases this helped: Zoom into the timeline, go to the last frame of the clip you want to freeze, and then move the playhead backwards 5 to 10 frames with the mouse, and when you reach that point click once while pressing the alt key to make sure that playhead and skimmer are at the same point. Then choose “add freeze frame” from the dropdown menu. For me this works. Maybe you could also try to disable skimming because I suspect that this strange behavior might have something to do with the skimmer position, but I did not try that out yet.

[Fedor Von hengstenberg]

Eline, from what I read in your post I have to assume that you import all your video files into your library, with “generate optimized media” checked. What I would suggest instead is to copy the files from your camera card to an external drive first. Even better, probably, would be to use the import window and generate a camera archive on the external disk. From there you can import your stuff into FCPX (without optimizing media), make your selections, favorite ranges, keywords, and all the nice things you can do to organize the material. Nothing is expanded in size or copied, so you can edit right away from your favorites. Finally, in addition to the export you need for the target channel (e.g., YouTube) you also export a masterfile in ProRes422 (and I suggest, without any text overlays etc., which is easy when using roles). Then you have a permanent storage file for the used portions of your edit in HQ and can get rid of the raw material if you wish to. On the other hand, storage is not that expensive, so that you could store the external drive as well.

[Fedor Von hengstenberg]

Probably the easiest way to achieve what you want is to place a copy of the clip on top of the original as a connected clip, then do your grading on the copy. You can then regulate the amount of grading by keyframing the opacity of the connected clip.

[Fedor Von hengstenberg]

Hi Kris, just to clarify your statement that you “lost your files”: Set the browser view to list view. What happens? Is the window empty or do you see any items? In any case, make sure that the search field on top of the window is completely empty and that the drop down menu on the top left of the browser window is set to “all clips”. Just in case.

[Fedor Von hengstenberg]

Harry, your problem is most likely due to the fact that you did not change the keyframe interpolation from default smooth to linear. In order to do this, click the icon at the lower left of your canvas window. Then the transformation keyframes should become visible on screen. Right or control click on them and set them to linear. This should alter the behavior of your transformation and solve the problem. BTW, I have not yet understood why linear is not the default option, but what do I know?