John Williams
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Most of my video footage these days is from a DSLR. While I’m importing and tagging stills, it’s natural and easy to import and tag the video at the same time as part of the same workflow. That is my main organization and storage for original media. My movies incorporate a lot of stock footage I’ve shot over the years, so I’ve grown accustomed to LR being my “go to” tool when I’m looking for an image of, say, a sand dollar pooping or nudibranchs mating.
When I import into FCPX, I leave the original media in place, so my LR data storage is always intact and reliable.
However, when I’m editing in FCPX, it would be nice to take advantage of those tags I’ve already spent so much time adding. Maybe now that Apple is putting so much emphasis on Finder tags, someone will build, or maybe already has, an app to copy LR tags to the media files as Finder tags. I know there are already some other apps add Finder tags from other sources.
John F. Williams
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I am returning to this project, which is combining 3 of my short movies into 1.
Instead of creating a compound clip of the movie that was creating the problem, I simply opened it, highlighted all clips in the timeline, copied it, then pasted the clips into the new, combined timeline. There were not the same gaps between each clip, but the timing was still altered. The total pasted section was almost a second longer than the original I copied from, and the relationships between some of the clips were changed.How can one rely on a system that does this? It didn’t report any problems, but produced a screwy result. I guess my only option at this point is to export the original as a self-contained movie, then import that into the combined version. I didn’t do this originally because a) it meant duplication of media, and b) I wanted to change the beginning and ending a little in the combined version (e,.g. remove the credits at the end, etc.)
John F. Williams
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I made a snapshot of the original project#1, then removed the 60fps still and a 44.1KHz music clip from the beginning of the shapshot, then turned it into a compound clip, and there were no spurious gaps between clips.
(reminder, all the other clips are 29.97 fps and 48Khz)
To double check, I made another snapshot of project#1 and turned it into a compound clip without removing the clips at the beginning, and it had the erroneous gaps.
But the problem isn’t just the still or the music, because I repeated the test with the other project, project#2, and when I made a compound clip from a snapshot, it was fine, with no gaps, as it always had been. The beginning of project#2 also has that same music clip and a still (60fps) at the beginning.
The only thing I could see different about the beginning of the 2 projects, is that project#1 had a “shapes” clip also at the beginning that project#2 didn’t. I added the same shapes clip to the beginning of project#2, but turning it into a compound clip still worked correctly.
So after a lot of experimenting with 2 similar projects I’m no closer to understanding why one of them has gaps inserted between clips when turned into a compound clip and the other doesn’t.
John F. Williams
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The frame rate of the timeline is 29.97
John F. Williams
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Clips in both projects were shot with the same camera at 29.97 fps. Oddly enough, the first clip of each is a still photo which shows up as having a frame rate of 60fps, which seems baffling to me. But even that’s the same in each project.
John F. Williams
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Peter,
Many of the people making these public access stations work are volunteers, creating as much of a public service as they can with very limited budgets. I think their communities should be giving them awards, not asking them to hide under rocks. My experience with a dozen of them so far is that none has asked me out to lunch, they are either too busy with their jobs, or too far away.I’d be interested to hear a little more about why you said what you did, it wasn’t at all clear to me what you meant.
John F. Williams