[Jeremy Garchow]

You can create a Compressor setting in Compressor, and then use that setting as a share output from FCPX by adding a “Compressor Setting” in the prefs.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Ann Marie] “What might seem redundant to you does not seem redundant to me. = ) “

I do understand that what’s good for the goose is not always good for the gander. I am trying to help work around any limitations presented with FCPX. I think that FCPX has very good organizational tools, but you do have to use them in the way that they are designed.

[Ann Marie] “When you’re dealing with a long doc that has 20 or more interviews, as I am and where this thread started from and in not being able to take a long master clip and break it down to subclips without all the subclips carrying the same name as the master clip, that’s where the problem is at the moment.”

Oh, you are talking clip names. NOT notes. The only to give unique clip names in the Browser is to duplicate the clip, but it gets very messy and I don’t recommend it. You can also rename clips on the timeline, and that name will not rename in the Browser. Here’s a picture of a clip called “Test” which I spliced twice, added notes to two clips, and renamed two of the segments. Remember this is all from the same clip. If I match frame, it all goes back to the clip “Test”.

Since FCPX can’t rename subclips, perhaps there’s a better way to achieve what you are doing without making tons of compound clips. What information do you get from a clip name that you couldn’t get from a keyword or other tag?

[Ann Marie] “The second keyword is only for Compound Clips created. “

As an aside, making smart collections may be a good idea for you as all of your compound clips will end up there, regardless. You can even add a modifier to the clip name like “Clipname_SubClip” and you can tell the smart collection to aggregate just the compound clips with text that includes “_SubClip”.

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[Ann Marie] “I then put keywords on the compound clips identifying them as a compound clip.”

You can create a Smart Collection to gather all your compound clips (instead of adding a keyword to the compound clips).

I’m still having trouble seeing the reason why you are having trouble. I can add Notes to ranges without the ranges adopting the master note.

Can someone please walk me through step by step, how the range notes aren’t working as expected?

[Jeremy Garchow]

If you press and hold ‘l’ to play forward, and then hold k, it plays back at ~50%.

You will need to be an octopus if you have to type at the same time.

[Jeremy Garchow]

I guess adding a keyword range to the entire clip, then further subdividing that clip in to ranges with the same keyword seems redundant to me.

If you want to add notes, it might be good to simply add a “Notes” keyword, and add the note to that range.

If you need marker text extracted, Producer’s Best friend will do it: https://intelligentassistance.com/producer-s-best-friend.html

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[Ricardo Abellyra] “I actually found a similar post from 2015, you solved the issue with with a walk around, apparently FCPX couldn’t do this directly and needed it to be exported as QT and then re encoded in Compressor.”

That may have been before FCPX could export MXF files directly.

It didn’t always have that capability.

[Jeremy Garchow]

MXF works too.

From the “Format” choose MXF, and pick your codec. Like this:

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Trash your preferences.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Use the “Roles As > Multitrack Quicktime” option in the Share window.

Then assign each channel to a mono output (Dialogue 1-16) to 16 difference output channels.

Like this:

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Yeah, looks like something is weird in the XML.

If you can show comparative XMLs of each of those clips, I’d be curious to see how they are different.