[Jeff Kirkland]

Not natively, but you can use something like Clip Exporter to split it up with a bit of messing around. (https://clipexporter.mindtransplant.com)

Ideally in FCPX you’d just create an event, mark your favourite parts of the stock footage and then re-use those favourites and keywords in other projects. In FCPX it’s all about the metadata.

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[Jeff Kirkland]

On or off is all the control you get I’m afraid.

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[Jeff Kirkland]

Definitely not right then – I’m happily skimming with a 2010 i3 based iMac with 8gb RAM – and I’m using 1080p ProRes 422 not proxies. I’m only looking at two streams of video and an audio track though, how many are you trying to watch at once?

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[Jeff Kirkland]

I don’t have any problem skimming a multiclip in the event browser so I’d guess it’s a horsepower issue.

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[Jeff Kirkland]

Michael, I’m giving your idea a try on the project I started today.

I had planned to have a folder for the media and a sparse image to keep the FCPX project and event in so it was all nice and tidy, but Chronosync can’t reliably backup an open sparse bundle and I figured there was too much risk of me forgetting to close it at the end of the day.

I’ll move the FCPX project into a sparse bundle to archive it when I’m done. That way all of the assets are in one logical place if I need to revisit it.

It’s taken a while but I think I might finally have found a system I’m happy with. Thanks for the suggestion.

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[Jeff Kirkland]

If you’re using the colour board then it’s applied last in the chain. If you want any other order, you need to use a plugin for your colour correction.

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[Jeff Kirkland]

I’ve oscillated between keeping media in the events folder and just linking to it over the time I’ve been using FCPX. There are definite advantages to just linking and if I do, then I use Magic Bullet Grinder, ClipWrap, or MPEG Streamclip to ingest/transcode. On the other hand, there’s a certain simplicity to just letting FCPX import everything to an event folder. It makes final archiving a breeze and I never have to wonder if I’m leaving any media behind.

When archiving I delete both render files and optimised media as both of those can be reconstructed from whatever is in the original media folder.

I’d probably do things differently if I trusted FCPX’s ability to re link files a little more.

Right now I’m toying with the idea of creating a project folder that has all the assets, documents, images, whatever and also contains a sparsebundle drive that, when mounted, would contain the FCPX event and project. The downside is that Chronosync would have to copy the entire sparsebundle every night which could be in the hundreds of gigs.

I may try it on my next project and see how much of a pain it really is. There’s certainly a lot of pluses when it comes to final archiving.

Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer | Southern Creative Media | Melbourne Australia
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[Jeff Kirkland]

Not having seen the layout of your project, I could well be missing something but to see the diagonal lines at the start and/or end of a compound clip you must be using it on a timeline and not showing the complete length of the clip. In your case, it’s because you’ve added to the length of the clip so the version in the timeline remains at the original 20 minutes long and the diagonal lines are indicating that the contents are now 5 minutes longer.

You need to go to that compound clip wherever it is being used and lengthen it on the timeline to include the entirety of its contents.

As an example, I use compound clips to create scenes. I edit each scene in a compound clip and then when ready, lay them out in a project timeline. If I then go back and change the length of one of those scenes, i.e. edit the contents of the compound clip, I now have to manually lengthen or shorten the compound clip on the timeline as it won’t automatically change to reflect the new length.

Hope that’s more helpful..

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[Jeff Kirkland]

Can’t say I’ve stressed MPEG Streamclip to any extreme but I regularly give it hundreds of clips to batch convert without an issue. Sounds more and more like a system issue of some kind.

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[Jeff Kirkland]

I’d say yes. Either your footage is bad or there’s some weird corruption in the QuickTime codec on your system. I’m fairly certain both FCPX and MPEG Streamclip are calling on the same system libraries to do the conversion.

if you have multiple clips and you’re trying to batch convert there may only be one of them causing the issue so do them one at a time until you find the culprit.

As a last resort you could use Quicktime player to export a new copy of the footage and try importing that seeing as it’s playing fine in that.

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