Jona Taylor
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Hi Tim,
Good to know that I can select all the clips in one folder and convert them to dual mono.
As mentioned earlier, I have re-imported the entire xml project file with the audio settings set to mono. I am coming from FCP7 and see having dual mono tracks as a good thing. Although I have to say that I don’t really understand why PP would default audio to one stereo track or why that would be a good thing.
To solve this my original issue, I went back to all the media in the project, to where the in/ out that I had set were in each clip and re-entered the in/ out points again so that now everything is correct again. But this still did not solve the original problem outlined in my o.p.
I sure hope that I am really setting up this project properly (ie. bringing everything in dual mono) so that I will mitigate problems that can surface down the line. My project file is 125mb (5tb in media) and I haven’t even started editing yet… still in the very early stages of organizing. I’d be extremely grateful if you have any suggestion on how to proceed or if there are any important measures that I should keep in mind to ensure that the project can slowly continue to build with the least possible problems.
As always, I appreciate and am grateful to have such a great community of friendly folks to go to for help 🙂
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Hi Tim,
Thanks again for jumping in here 🙂
“you know that PPro lets you just select all that footage and set the audio to be 2-mono instead of 1-stereo, right? Right-click, modify, etc…”
– There are tens of thousands of clips contained in dozens of folders. Would PP allow me to do this with just a few clicks?
Jona
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Hi Tim,
Thank you for your help here 🙂
I’m double clicking the clip in the project window and that loads it to the source window. I see the in/ out points (w/ green bar) that I set in the clips but I can not hit Shift I/ Shift O to move the playhead to them. When I do hit Shift I/ Shift O, the playhead moves to the beginning and end of the clip.
This has happened now with several XML projects that were sent out of FCP7 (and imported to PP) and also my latest PP project that was exported out of PP as an FCP XML and then imported back into PP so that I could have both mono tracks available to me (see above in my OP)
It would really be great to have this sorted out,
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“Maybe that Preview folder is from other projects you also didnt set a path for and they defaulted to the Desktop as well?”
– Could be I’m not sure. Good insight though.
I’m trying everything I can… I wonder if I could export the project (no timeline built yet, just imported media in the project window) and the start a new project with the right settings?
Thanks again for your help here Tom 🙂
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Hi Tom.
Huge thanks for jumping in here!
It took me all night to import tens of thousands of files in their folder structures to beging this new project. Is there any way to reset these setting once they have been set the wrong way?
Also the ‘Previews Folder was set to the external drive, not the Desktop so I don’t understand why it would show up on the desktop? Any idea?
Thanks again! 🙂
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Huge thanks as well Jeremy! 🙂
I’ll keep your partition suggestion guidance in mind in the event that I start having conflict on my system.
Best wishes and have a wonderful weekend… I know I will!
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I’ve said it before… Creative Cow has an incredible wealth of tallent!!!
Bret… you my friend are a STAR!!! Perfect well articulated answer. It’s been 2 weeks of down time since this crash and now I’m finally back on track.
Wishing you all the happiness and success in the world 🙂
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I’m going to burn FCP7 as a disc image onto an small external drive and see if that will behave as a DVD.
Maybe I can install it from that?Jona
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Absolutely will do Charlie. Thanks for the tip.
I wonder… if anyone knows if the FCP7 dmg would instal after some kind of file structure (folder) modification… as a work around?
Jona
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Thanks Charlie! 🙂