James Cude
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Jason- yeah I see the issue. Here’s what you could try:
1- Copy the Compound Clip in your timeline.
2- Paste the copy after your existing clip.
3- Break apart the original Compound Clip.
4- Make your edits on the original clips (timecode shown for the sequence will match your notes)
5- When you’re done, select the clips and Make New Compound clip.
6- Select the copied compound clip you made in step 1.
7- Copy it with Command-C.
8- Select the compound clip you made from the newly edited clips, in step 5.
9- Edit>Paste Effects.Now you’ll have a compound clip with all the edits you needed to make with the original timecode while still keeping the audio adjustments you made on the Compound Clip.
Next time, try the timecode generator to burn in timecode that matches whatever you need to make edits later.
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‘Optimized’ converts your original footage into ProRes 422 standard, which is suitable for final outputs and looks as good as your original finals, but stands up to repeated filters/compositing/etc much better.
‘Proxy’ transcodes it into ProRes Proxy- which will give you the best performance, take up the least amount of additional space and give you the best performance, but cannot be used for high quality output.
So your workflow can either be:
1- Transcode to Optimized and you can then export in full quality when you’re done as is. Upside is you’re working at final quality the whole time. Downside is it will take up the most amount of space. But honestly, it’s worth investing in an extra hard drive, 1 TB is really cheap these days.
2- Transcode to Proxy. The upside is best performance and least amount of additional hard drive space. The downside is that you can’t really use it for final output because the quality is not sufficient. So you’ll have to toggle the preference from using Proxy to Using Original or Optimized media.
The advantage to doing this operation within FCP X as opposed to MPEG Streamclip is FCP X will keep track of both the originals and the optimized or proxy media itself and will automatically toggle back and forth between them as you change the playback preference. If you bring in your own transcodes, you won’t have a connection back to the original H.264s. The trade off is of course more hard drive space. But again I think this is all worth it.
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When you’re doing anything in particular or just randomly?
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I see this happening once in a while too- was your text/title with more than a couple of spaces. Especially at the end?
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Yeap- there’s no editor on earth that can help you if the stuff’s not matching media. But that said, it’s not too tricky to just eyeball it. It’s all just part of the magic of editing! 🙂
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Are you talking about audio and video clips that do not match i.e. are different time bases or that should line up perfectly? For the former- that’s a lot of guesswork and manual slider. For the latter, you can sync up manually using a Compound Clip.
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Greg- are you still having that problem with the 15 second delay? Which template was that?
-James