[Justinfay]

Uh-oh, I am having a potential breakthrough. Other than the journaling, this is the first thing that directly relates to my project. I had several clips that were captured with time code breaks with “make new clip” selected. I haven’t tried making the media offline and then relinking yet. I will try it and keep y’all posted.

Justin

[Justinfay]

Thanks for the encouragement/ideas everyone. I am deeply ingrained in Avid, but also, very quick to pick up new apps. I only used Macs up until Avid release MC on PC, so I am familiar with the interface. I’ve evenhad to troubleshoot some OS X issues for my brother before I dove in to FCP. I have several hardcore FCP friends/associates who have helped me through the transition. I very quickly realized the danger/pitfalls of auto select and ripple delete. I little trial and error and some out of syncness quickly brought me up to speed. (actually I am just now getting the idea of the auto select.) The thing is, anytime I did a delete etc. I would make sure it didn’t adversely affect my timeline. I would make sure to select all tracks or just have all autoselects on. The problem I am having now pertains to the cmd-z. The timeline doesn’t just shift wrong, because I could then undo and theoretically all would go back to normal. If I cmd-z, as you saw in the pictures, I got a 10 minute gap in my sequence, even after cutting and undoing. I think the fella from PBS who said the journaling was the prob might be on to something seeing as 2 of my drives have it switched on and I have tried trashing prefs and rebuilding permissions, and all the other fancy tricks that are the norm. I don’t have the option to turn off journaling on the drives in questions because they were formatted with it on. I suppose I will have to make sure I setup my drives/system correctly prior to starting my next project. (A medium level FCP editor setup this project. He doesn’t know all the tricks yet.) He was perplexed by this problem, and I managed to get to the bottom of it after visiting the forum here.

[Justinfay]

I have discovered that the Big 700G disk is formatted as extended journaled, which may be a problem. I don’t see where I can turn off journaling in the menu of disk utility only “enable”. I have renewed my permissions on my boot drive as well. I don’t think the keyboard setup would cause the problem as it is not a wrong key I am hitting. (it does it the same if I use menu commands.) I’m sure there would be some benefit to me taking a class, however, I don’t think this should happen on a system that is so highly touted as “user friendly” . As un-user friendly as it was, when I was learning Avid in the early days, the only headaches I had to worry about were system incompatibilites and corrupt media. My timeline was always rock solid. I don’t think I should have to become an Apple Technician to be able to find a correct combo that works for my system.

[Justinfay]

Oh, by the way, this was after creating a new sequence and copy-pasting my show into the new timeline.

[Justinfay]

Here is my sequence before doing ripple delete. (I made the edit just before the big gaps.)

https://img280.imageshack.us/img280/9708/snapshot200510011104593fq.png

And here is after four ripple delete- cmd-z undo’s:

https://img280.imageshack.us/img280/5789/snapshot200510011104137kf.png

[Justinfay]

You are correct, in Avid I would copy and paste into a new timeline, but in FCP, I was told not to copy and paste because it causes further problems. True, Not? I have isolated the problem to the undo Key. cmd-z. If I do a ripple delete or anything else that changes the length of my sequence, the timeline stars getting screwy. If I do it several times in a row my sequence is F’d. Problem is, some of the clips move back when I undo, and some stay in the same place. So the ones that moved back overwrite part of the ones that didn’t move, creating a gap in my timeline. As for the media being linked to the wrong clips, i don’t know what that is. If I do an overwrite, or some other actions that do not change the timeline length, then I can undo. This has happened on 2 systems, so I am going to say that bad RAM is most likely not he cause. Also, on my home system I just got it last week and just installed FCP, so it is a fresh install so I am going to rule that out as well. I don’t know what this journaling is, however, and this could be something to look at.

I am going to try the new sequence thing for now…Ill keep y’all posted.