[Jacob Brown]

yeah it’s not ideal. but i’ve been hosting cuts on there for months now to show various people.

just hoping to use compressor to improve the quality…

[Jacob Brown]

I’ve been editing a feature film on FCPX for last few months. my goals and creative process may be different then a lot of you alls. but i have a hard time understanding why the horizontal way of thinking that tracks invoque is a good thing for sound. every time i’m sitting in a sound mixing booth with a sound designer, they always over and over again talk about thinking on the vertical with sound.

for me, my fcpx process is very vertical. the stack of sfx that made the last moment impactful and powerful has nothing to do with the one i’m working on in the next moment. again this is just me, but i wouldnt want to connect them. to me they are discrete and the independent stacking at that moment in relation to primary timeline seems great.

[Jacob Brown]

i think having a highly engineered machine with innovative cooling system get serviced at the store might be an advantage to many people

[Jacob Brown]

perfect, thanks 🙂

[Jacob Brown]

you really do not want to use a multicam clip unless you need to, unless you are doing multicam editing. multicam does not play well with exporting through XML, use up memory, etc.

the best work flow i have found on this is to just sort the clips such that the audio files is next to the video file. you can then highlight the two adjacent clips and hit synch. then go on to the next one and do the same. if you are on a fast machine it will synch them pretty fast so that no more than 2-3 are running at a time.

i don’t know how that compares to pluraleyes time wise. i would imagine that it takes a little longer at the start, but at the end all you synched clips are already in the event library exactly where you want them so it might even out.

[Jacob Brown]

another good way to align the visual frames to audio subframes is by retiming slightly.

use the range selector. select a range that encompasses the audio marker and visual marker. shift-n. you will now be able to adjust the timing of that range and fcpx will automatically ramp up/down.

[Jacob Brown]

worst case scenario, if you have problems, you should be able to add mismatched media to the multicam clip after the fact. you can then sync the newly added clips. Then within the already created timeline simply switch the angle from the offline to the online.

of course you wont want to do for the whole edit, but if its just a few clips that mismatch, its a fix.

[Jacob Brown]

For the feature film I am editing I back up in this manner:

I have all the media in 3 events. I have multiple projects.

On a backup drive I keep a copy of the “Final Cut Events” folder and a copy of the “Final Cut Projects” folder. I tend to just keep one copy of the events folder and multiple, dated copies of the projects folder.

[Jacob Brown]

If I am understanding your question correctly, then I believe that after you move the project with referenced events you need to then select the new events on your new drive (the ones that it sounds like only contain aliases) and go to file and then organize events. should copy the media for you.

[Jacob Brown]

it may take some jiggering but you should be able to relink. i’ve gone through this and always gotten it to work. the only exception is if you have edited the original media at all. then it’s impossible.

is it giving you an error message when you relink?

where are you relinking from?

sometimes it makes a difference whether you are going to File/Relink in menu bar versus selecting “modify event references from within the inspector (it’s under info panel). it also can make a difference whether you have selected a clip in your timeline or a clip in your event library