[Jeremy Garchow]

First, see if you have some sort of custom keyboard preset selected (under Final Cut Pro > Commands menu).

Check to see if control-d is mapped to something else (or not mapped to Change Duration)

If that doesn’t work, try trashing your preferences by quitting FCPX, and then hold command-option while you launch FCPX.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Out of disk space?

[Jeremy Garchow]

What steps are you using to sync everything?

If the cameras and audio recorders aren’t jammed sync’d sometimes they will drift, especially over 5 hours.

You either have to sync manually, or use Plural Eyes which has a drift compensation feature, but even so, it’s not magic.

You say that all the audio is in sync, but the video is not.

If you isolate and play that clip where the video is not in sync with the audio, is it out of sync with itself? Meaning is the file not right?

Some cameras simply can’t handle that amount of sync, or use a variable frame rate which is very hard to track and keep sync in a time locked NLE.

[Jeremy Garchow]

How are you selecting the clip? Use ‘c’ and not ‘x’ to select a clip

[Jeremy Garchow]

Copy (command-c)

Paste Attributes (Command-shift-v)

Or you could try reconnecting the still in the timeline to the new still, but depending on the raster size and spatial conform settings, this may get messy (as will copy and paste attributes).

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Joby Anthony Jr] ” I hadn’t really considered the advantage of cache files external to the library, so never worried about it, but I follow what you’re doing here. Will start tinkering with that idea into our workflow.
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I move libraries around a lot, between machines, and drives, to go from studio to mobile and back.

Leaving out the cache saves a lot of time. If I want to, i can choose to move it with me as well (as a separate, external file). I find it works pretty well for us.

Jeremy

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Joby Anthony Jr] “Would that be a good strategy prior to archiving a library?”

I always keep the cache outside of the library, and never archive it. If I need to restore something, I just let the optical flow reanalyze.

I like having the cache outside because it’s easy to trash the whole thing in one go, rather than in pieces. But you still have the option to trash it in pieces though FCPX (by Event, Project, whatever). Plus all my cache files for all Libraries are in one place, so it’s easy to keep track of.

Jeremy

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Joby Anthony Jr] “2. double-check actual library size at the Finder level (outside of FCPX). If they both say 900, then you know what’s inside of each library is indeed 900. One thing I’ve noticed is that even though you can delete Proxies and Renders from within FCPX, Analysis files get left behind, and that storage can get pretty big over time, especially if you’ve done a lot of work with Stabilization and Optical Flow.
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This is exactly why moving the cache outside of the library will help reduce the size of the library.

Jeremy

[Jeremy Garchow]

Try relocating the cache outside of the library. This is done with the library selected, inspector open, and click modify settings.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Luke Will] “Is there at least a shortcut method for exporting single clips as opposed to having to manually place an in point and out point around them and then deselect all the other video levels that you don’t want in the export etc etc ?”

You will have to disable the other clips above by selecting them and hitting v.

‘x’ selects a clips in and out.

Then you have to share.