Jeff Kirkland
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With a compound clip you can either step into it and modify it (open in timeline) or you can break it apart, which essentially replaces the compound clip on your timeline with it’s contents.
Just curious – why use a compound clip instead of a multi cam clip?
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I don’t use auditions a lot but the one place I find them useful is for trying alternate color grades of video effects. Take a scene and make a compound clip of it. Duplicate it to an audition and do some grading. Now duplicate it again but using to duplicate the original. Now you have a clean slate to do an alternate grade. Rinse and repeat.
Yes you could do it by stacking all those versions on top of each other but why do that when auditions are there to keep everything clean and tidy?
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There are no clips to find outside of FCPX. The merged clips are virtual clips that don’t exist outside of FCPX’s database. If you’re looking to create new clips with the synced sound then use something like Pluraleyes.
If your friend jumped to Premiere because of that issue he’s likely to be very disappointed. As far as I know it doesn’t handle synced clips any differently – or if it did I’d be mighty annoyed. Imagine if the only way you could sync audio on 200gb of clips was to create another 200gb of clips in the background. Ouch.
As to whether clips are stored inside the FCPX library or not, that’s entirely up to you. Do a search for managed vs unmanaged/external media and FCPX. You’ll find plenty of free beginner training that explains how it works.
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The effect disappearing makes perfect sense to me and is exactly what I’d expect. The effect was applied to the compound clip. When you break the clip apart, you essentially delete the compound clip and replace it with the content it contains. They’re two completey different things and I wouldn’t expect the effect assigned to one to transfer to the other.
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You are thinking of compound clip behaviour prior to 10.0.6. Since then changes to the parent ripple down to the child clips on the timeline. The same goes for multicam clips – the angle editor opens the parent and any changes ripple down to instances you have on your timeline.
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Not usually. Most of my stuff is 28 minute long form so it’s all Final Cut. Everything is edited first, then motion graphics added, then if anything needs to be done in motion, I’ll export that segment, do my animation, then often publish it back to final cut as a title or generator or whatever – on the basis that if needed to do it once, I’ll probably want to do the same thing again in the future.
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All depends on how over the top it needs to be. For me it’s mostly just text zipping across the screen, flashing, growing, spinning, etc so all of that can be done in final cut. If you need a fancy path, or niceties like ease-in, ease-out, then I head over to Motion.
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Well, I make real informercials and I do 90% of my onscreen stuff in FCPX. It’s pretty rare that i have to go beyond key framing or the canned text animations, effects, etc to get what I need.
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If you’re using a managed library (media is stored inside the library) then you will need to copy the media somewhere that Resolve can access it. Any time you are planning on sharing your media with another application it pays to set your project to use external media rather than managed media.
Your best option now is to change your project settings and move the media to folders outside of the library.
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Nope. You need to manually switch between proxy and Original/Optimised modes.
Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer | Southern Creative Media | Melbourne Australia
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