Thanks, T. and all. After doing some hunting around (and it may well be in the article T. posted), I found a solution for my case. Deleting “currentversion.flexolibrary” and “settings.plist”, likely with a combination of wiping prefs on a restart. Took a while to “verify” the program, but finally opened. Whew. Thanks again and hope this solution…

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Thanks, Jeremy. No luck. Was able to open several libraries (though most with missing media because I don’t have the drives connected). But when trying to open an earlier version of this one (though “backup” was grayed out) via open library>locate>movies>final cut back up>podcast) ANY version (even tried one from a month ago) immediately goes to…

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Hi all,

A project (a podcast with probably 8 audio tracks) I’ve been working on for about three months) has started giving me problems. On the second “final” output (of course it happens at the end) froze last night. After about an hour, I did a force quit and went to bed to attack fresh this morning. Today, when trying to open (first just buy…

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Thanks Eric. I’ll investigate. I don’t have much experience with compound clips.

I’m also wondering if I shouldn’t be looking at a Multicam type of approach (which, again, I have no experience with). But since all the clips are identical takes, just from different sources, maybe that’s the way to go?

Appreciate any help with this, and I’ll try to explain it in a way that makes sense (I’m not a new editor, just a pretty basic one – razor blade kind of editing).

I am using FCPX to create a dramatic podcast. We recorded actor dialogue in a sound studio, and I was given several .wav files of each actor’s mic (eg. ActorAone, ActorAtwo, ActorAthree;…

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I may give it another try. I’ve never been able to get the dramatic, severe falloff I’m looking for, but maybe just need to mess around with it some more. Really appreciate all the help.

Yeah, that must be it. Have used the regular as a work around (it works fine in terms of cropping), but as you say, doesn’t give me the vertical look I need. I’ll see what I can find in the Motion template (it was preinstalled on FCPX).

Ah, gotcha. Yes, that is sort of the issue. If you look at the second shot with the older man, you can see the full shot in the timeline. He actually has plenty of room in the frame. But when adding the vignette effect, it is choosing to cut off the frame at his shoulder/right ear (as shown in viewer). Can’t tell if it is a bug, or what. Thanks…

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Thanks, Jeremy. They’re actually not stills. Talking head interviews. Curious about the frame boundaries thing…..

Hi all,

Having an issue with the vignette mask filter. And it may be, unfortunately, the nature of what a vignette does that is the problem, but I’m not sure.

I took the vignette mask filter into motion to add the ability to rotate the shot. Reason being, we’re doing a thing where faces appear at smaller size over shots. Kind of fade up and out and…

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Thanks so much, all. Will give Neofinder a go.

Great. Thanks very much, guys. I’ll check them out.

John, can’t thank you enough! Brilliant!

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And would love to know the name of that old DB program. Sounds handy!

Thank you again.

I have tons of external drives with libraries, etc. I try to ID them so I know approximately what projects are on what drives by dates. I have a project from about a year ago I need to get back in to and it isn’t on the drive I thought it would be. Before I start going through drives one by one, is there ANY WAY to id where the library might be? I…

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