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Jerome Raim
June 25, 2015 at 5:39 pm in reply to: How can I move secondary audio clips around vertically without changing their timing?

There’s no shift+click option like FCP 7.

This is how I do it:

1. Place the playhead at the head of the first clip that is selected.
2. As a precaution, disable Scrubbing (S)
3. Enable Snapping (N)
4. Drag the clips vertically. They will snap to your playhead and an overlay will appear confirming that the clips are not moving (the overlay will display something like “+00:00.0”).

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Jerome Raim
June 2, 2015 at 9:32 pm in reply to: Editing with nested sequences… good or bad idea?

OK, I figured out how to downmix multiple audio tracks to two tracks. For anyone who needs to do it, here are the steps:
1. Create your multiclip
2. Open it in timeline
3. Open the audio track mixer (not the audio clip mixer)
4. Depending on your audio setup, it will either look like this

or like this

5. Map all audio tracks to 1+2.
For stereo pairs:

For mono:

Your multiclip will still have x number of audio channels, but all of them will be empty except for 1 & 2.

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Jerome Raim
May 29, 2015 at 11:01 pm in reply to: Editing with nested sequences… good or bad idea?

I’m trying to see if I can downmix to stereo but can’t figure out how:

I select 2 video elements (dual mono each) and one audio clip (3 mono)
I first tested as stereo, then tested it as auto:

These are the two multiclips that were created:

I cut them into a timeline with standard audio tracks:

In theory, the way to have 7 channels downmixed to stereo would be right click on the multiclip → Modify Audio Channels and link all channels to output 1 & 2. But I don’t see any way on how to do that.

Additionally, I’m confused between the (possible) discrepancy between the number of channels in Modify Audio Channels and the number of channels in the multiclip’s sequence settings.

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Jerome Raim
May 14, 2015 at 4:09 pm in reply to: Splitting stereo tracks to dual mono in timeline

On the Adobe forums I offer a workaround in order to create fake dual mono clips within the timeline:
https://forums.adobe.com/message/7545392#7545392

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Jerome Raim
April 30, 2015 at 2:46 pm in reply to: Connect, append and insert hotkeys not working

With 10.1.1, I encountered a similar problem once or twice. The trouble stemmed from this file:
~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.FinalCut.[random_string_of_characters] .

If that doesn’t work, or if you don’t have that file, usually creating a new user for Mac OSX would fix the issue.

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Jerome Raim
June 12, 2014 at 10:02 pm in reply to: Universal Audio Change

Select all audio elements –> Ctrl + =
(https://support.apple.com/kb/PH12576?viewlocale=en_US)

You’re limited to adding +12dB.

If that’s not enough, you can mass apply an audio gain filter to all individual clips.

Or you can compound your entire project and raise the audio level of the compound clip.

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Jerome Raim
May 29, 2014 at 10:35 pm in reply to: Send to Compressor crashes

No good reason to “Send to compressor”. It’s the slowest exporting method. Your best bet is to create the desired preset in Compressor and then add it to your “Shared destination” in FCP X. You can then export from FCP X directly.

Anyway, Digital Rebellion’s Compressor Repair usually does the trick to fix Compressor-related issues (works with 4.1.1):
https://www.digitalrebellion.com/compressorrepair/

If it doesn’t, the culprit should be somewhere in /YourUser/Library/Application Support/Compressor. You can delete everything in that folder and empty your trash (all settings and destinations will be lost).

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Jerome Raim
May 22, 2014 at 2:42 pm in reply to: ‘project’ has missing or offline titles, effects or generators etc

Hey Brian,
Hmm…! Assuming FCP X isn’t confused and there is actually a missing component, I believe this is the only way to figure out what that is:

1. Make a new project (sequence) with matching specs within that same library. Open the timeline inspector.
2. Toggle back to your original project, select the first 10-20 (or so) clips via the timeline inspector –> Cmd+C
3. Toggle to your empty project (Cmd + ] or [ ) –> paste
4. Try exporting/sharing (figure out a keyboard shortcut to make this go faster)
5. If no warning appears, repeat steps 1 through 4 till you find the cluster that has the problematic element.

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Jerome Raim
May 21, 2014 at 6:32 pm in reply to: ‘project’ has missing or offline titles, effects or generators etc

Open the timeline index, scroll down and see if there are any exclamation points anywhere.

You can also export an FCPXML of your project, open it up in a text editor and search for the following instances:
~/Compositions.localized/
~/Effects.localized/
~/Generators.localized/
~/Titles.localized/
~/Transitions.localized/

Make sure that for any Motion element it’s referencing, you do indeed have that (exact) filename in that location.

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Jerome Raim
May 19, 2014 at 4:31 pm in reply to: Audio

You can select all the clips from the same angle within the multiclip, go to the audio tab, open up the channel configuration and uncheck all unnecessary channels. Maybe your multiclip will then be able to be set to stereo. If that doesn’t work maybe you can upload an FCPXML of the event or project for us to take look at (shouldn’t matter that media will appear offline).

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