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I’d second Google Drive – very fast and with a file size limit of 5TB.
Alternatively/additionally, I’ve occasionally used a tool to split a file into multiple xxMB chunks and asked the recipient to concatenate on their end (something like this). This was the perfect solution for unreliable FTPs that might lose a connection on anything larger than 500MB. To play it safe, I would provide MD5 checksums for everything as well.
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A coworker might have made some headway into troubleshooting a (the?) root of the problem. Here’s a quick screen capture I made reproducing it:
FCPX-Losing content is secondary storylines
Shift+clicking secondary content may be actually selecting secondary storylines without you noticing it. Seems it happens only if there’s an overlap, but I haven’t consistently made sense of it.
So if this is the “only” cause of this issue, the rule of thumb is to always hold shift after dragging clips.
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Please try other apps to see if there’s one that is able to read the files:
Resolve Lite, EditReady, Premiere, Telestream Switch.You might have some luck transcoding to Prores with FFMPEG. Something along the lines of:
ffmpeg -i ‘Path/Of/Your/File’ -vcodec prores -profile:v 2 -acodec pcm_s24le ‘Output/Path/Filename.mov’Do you have a small quicktime you could upload for us to examine?
Walter Biscardi has an informative post about options for fixing corrupt media:
https://walterbiscardi.com/salvaging-a-corrupted-quicktime-file/?doing_wp_cron=1437573496.3301119804382324218750Jerome Raim
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Make sure “all clips” is enabled as opposed to “hide rejected” – “hide rejected” often can gives the illusion of duplicate clips of varying lengths.
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Hmm… And you’re saying this happens when playing the multiclip from within the timeline, not from the browser?
If it’s from the browser, you can enable specific audio tracks from the Inspector:
If it’s from within the timeline, I’m stumped.
…Actually, is it possible that your external audio is incorrectly set to something like 5.1 (as opposed to 6 mono channels) which in turn lead the multiclip audio to be set to 5.1 and you’re not properly hearing a mixdown of all the channels? You may want to enable your audio meters to see if that can help you make sense of the issue.
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When the multiclip is loaded as a timeline, you can monitor the audio of as many angles as you want:
Is your Z angle audio monitoring activated?
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FCP X, as opposed to 7, wants all organization/media selections to happen in the browser, not in the project/sequence. There’s no way to bring timeline markers into clips in the browser.
Does your project contain only the selects or does it contain everything + markers? If it’s just selects, or if you can easily create a project that only has those selects, you can see all used ranges in the browser. To enable this, have the project loaded, enable “Show Used Media Ranges” (under View), and toggle the the browser to List mode:
You can then select one or several of these used ranges and apply a keyword to them. Additionally, if you hit enter or tab, FCP X will toggle to the Notes field (which will be specific to that range, not to the entire clip).
Since all your work’s been done already within the timeline, it might not be worth it, but that’s how I would retrace my steps in order to replicate the logging to the browser level.
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A few editors I know have had this happen to them as well. Because it occurs out of the blue without the user being aware of it, it’s pretty much impossible to troubleshoot why/how/when it’s happening.
Maybe it’s because I have the Command+Shift+A reflex, but it’s yet to happen to me. It’s either a bug, or the user is somehow managing to select clips contained within secondary storylines… weird!
Sorry my response isn’t useful, but it’s good to know others are having the same issue.
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I can imagine the problem stemming from the fact that the user assumed if he were to select all audio and video clips, FCP X would figure out and generate multiple synchronized clips for each video&audio pairing.
That’s why I’m a fan of creating a multicam clip for a specific camera setup as it allows one convenient synchronized string out of video and audio, even if when there’s only one camera.
When I did use the synchronized clip method for hundred of takes, I ended up writing an applescript macro to help automate the process.
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It appears that your “problematic” clip is MVI_2713, not MVI_2713 – Synchronized Clip. I think you’re listening to the original clip, not your synchronized one.
Make a keyword collection to group all synchronized clips so as not to confuse yourself between the original clips and their synchronized counterparts. Also temporarily put yourself in list mode to manage your assets more easily.
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