[Jonathan Hickman]

I’m having this problem and don’t really understand why I should export the edited compound clip project and create another one.

First, I can’t understand why this new FCP doesn’t allow you to export parts of a timeline (project or what we used to call a sequence). That is a whole other issue.

Second, the problem I’m having is that I created a synchronized clip (synced sound with my ILC and my video camera), dumped it into the timeline (project) and then I’m locked into the length of the compound clip on that timeline (project). You can edit that compound clip, but the timeline is locked into a specific length.

Here’s the problem, I can’t add anything to say the middle of that compound clip without going beyond the length of the original synchronized (compound) clip length.

So, for example, if I add a new clip into the middle of the compound clip, and it pushes beyond the in and out points set by the compound, it will not export the entire timeline. The whole show I’m cutting is around 22 minutes, but the compound edited clips is 13 minutes. Anything beyond the 13 will not export.

Can’t I just turn that off and get on with editing?