[Jacob Brown]

this may or may not fit with your workflow, but one option is to do a really rough edit into your timeline. basically just pick your clips.

then duplicate the project onto a new drive (or sparse bundle) and select the option that only copies referenced clips.

[Jacob Brown]

I was having this problem for a while too. I’m editing a feature film and at one point had a sort of messy situation where there were semi-duplicate events, some on different drives so that that FCPX was linking all over the place, and sometimes showing multiple copies of things.

Few months ago I reimported everything into 3 clean events on a single drive and since then I haven’t had any problems.

A simple way to do this without re-importing everything would be to plug in a clean external drive and from within FCPX copy the project to that drive. When you do so select the option that also copies all associated events.

When you first do this FCPX will only create links, but if you then go to Event Library, highlight the events on your new drive, and go to File and select Organize Event Files, it will replace all the links with original media.

That will give you a totally clean drive with clean project and event folders.

[Jacob Brown]

i do have compressor yes. i’ve tried playing it in compressor, and compressor played it back in the same herky jerky fashion — but maybe that’s to be expected….would i just export it to a new format from compressor or?

[Jacob Brown]

Yup. I know that now. Unfortunately I didnt know that when we filmed.

I’ve done some more poking around and my hunch is that somehow the variable bitrate recording that photobooth uses has been lost. maybe because of OS version mismatch.

If anyone has any idea if there is a fix for that would be appreciated 🙂

[Jacob Brown]

on a macbookpro. it was a swedish/european macbook. not sure exact model, probably 2010-2011ish. i’m wondering if photobooth records some weird format i need to convert?

or if swedish or euro version of photobooth records weird format?

[Jacob Brown]

yup, i’ve watched it full screen, in window, everything. both in FCPX and quicktime and VLC

[Jacob Brown]

thanks all

[Jacob Brown]

Yeah Plural Eyes is waveform only. Interestingly enough it also really doesn’t mesh well with the workflow of a feature film edit. At least not that I could figure out.

Anyway, just emailed you off your site. Would love if you took a look.

[Jacob Brown]

I’m not sure that sync’ing by multicam and then cut and pasting out will save me any time, may actually be slower. When you do so, it pastes as 2 separate storylines connected to blank main storyline. so getting clean new clip is time consuming.

i have at least 100 clips without camera audio, so yeah, not fun.

[Jacob Brown]

does have any effect, at least the way i am doing it.

i put the markers on the clips in the event browser (just towards beginning of each clip i put a marker at the same time code location on both. then hit “synchronize clips” — but it’s not synched, markers not lined up.

of course i can open the new compound clip in timeline and sync manually just by lining up the two markers i created, but FCPX should be doing this automatically right?

and it’s crazy cause multicam will totally sync them no problem….