[Liesbeth Jongkind]

Thanks, Loren!
This was really usefull for me,
Liesbeth

[Liesbeth Jongkind]

Thanks, both of you, for these answers!
Claude, it seems to me that we are indeed working on the same issues, and also that Bill is far more experienced in these matters. So I hope you don’t mind that for now I will ask him to clarify some of the things he writes.

Bill, I am not always sure if I understand what you mean, so now I will ask some ‘stupid’ questions.
I will not ask all my questions right now, so more are coming in a couple of days.

you write: Camera Cards to Disk Images – those go in a folder with the Project ID –
My questions:
– do you save those disk-images on your internal harddrive?
– do you make a compressed disk image? Or do you choose read/write? Or read only?
Because I made compressed images (which is the default setting in Disk Utility on my mac) and they take forever (15 minutes for 11 GB) to open (I wanted to check if they really contained the files that are on the original card). Is this normal?

When you write ‘those go in a folder with the project ID’, do you mean you give the folder a name that for you identifies the project? Or is there something called a project ID that I should know about?

You write `That folder is backed up to at least two ARCHIVE hard drives. These are my Field Footage Archives. ‘

Do I understand correctly that ARCHIVE is the function of these two harddrives, so they can be any kind of harddrive, it is just that you use them for archiving your field footage?

For now I am skipping the middle of your post and go straight to the last part, which I like very much, because it is about the why of storage in stead of the how.

Do I understand correctly that you do not keep you data (= footage, events, projects) for about more than two years? So that when your files are over two years old, you delete them? (execpt for some exceptions). It is not the two-year-part that I am asking about, but the actively-deleting-old-data-part.

This sounds very liberating! (data is piling up here)

thanks for you answers to come,

Liesbeth

[Liesbeth Jongkind]

Hi Loren,
No, your workaround doesn’t make any difference for me, the clip in the event browser is still silent.
I mailed apple about it though and they asked me to upload the files and the event and the project so they could examine it.
So they are looking into it.
I’ll wait and see!

Liesbeth

[Liesbeth Jongkind]

Thanks Loren,
the link worked, it took me some time to find the preference files though,
as they were hidden (so were the libraries) (apple is not my native computerlanguage)

but I managed to thrash them.
This did not fix the bug.

here https://tech.onthis.net/2012/02/17/no-sound-in-video-clip-final-cut-pro-x/
is another mention of a similar problem.
The solution mentioned here does not work in my case

Should we now tell apple about it? How?

Liesbeth

[Liesbeth Jongkind]

yes, I was so keywording!
(I love the way fcp x forces my disorganised creativity to get organised first, so I can run wild afterwards, and don’t have to wast time searching for scenes I was sure I had shot and cannot find anymore in the creative frenzy!)
I was keywording fragments (parts) of synchronised audio- and video footage, by setting in- and outpoints and attaching keywords.

By the way the link you give seems dead (404)

bye,

Liesbeth

[Liesbeth Jongkind]

Hi Loren,
Good to hear I am not the only one.
This week it happenend again in another clip (same technical specs).

Liesbeth

[Liesbeth Jongkind]

Hi Aaron,
thank you for your reply,
I tested your tip by making a compound clip from the synced clip that falls silent.
I now have a new clip in the browser that is a compound clip identical tot the synced clip, and YESSS!
there is sound untill the end in this new clip if I play it from the browser (and also when I play it from the timeline).

Do you understand why this is so?
or what caused my original synced clip to stop playing its sound?

about your question of exporting the audio file:
I don’t know what you mean,
the original wav file is fine and the audio channel of the video has sound too.
Also if I do not interrupt playing the synced clip, I hear the sound untill the end of the cliped, but if I press space to stop playing and than press space again to start playing again, then I hear no sound anymore (even though the audiowaves are there.)

I have not tried thrashing my preferences yet, because it sounds a bit intimidating, and I do not know yet how to do that.
I will look it up and try though.

Thanks again,

[Liesbeth Jongkind]

While this is indeed an easy way to export to youtube or vimeo, it takes quite long and during that time one cannot do other things in FCP X. And often I have other projects I want to edit after I have finished one project.
So I would like to do the uploading without keeping FCP busy voor a long, unpredictable amount of time.
I don’t have compressor yet, should I buy it for this?
Thanks,

[Liesbeth Jongkind]

the keyworded clip is silent too, but when I drag it to the timeline, the sound is back.
I say sound, not audio, because the clip DOES have audio, even if it is silent.
I can see the waves, and the audio tab in the information pane shows audio too.
I have turned FCPX off and on again, this did not help.

[Liesbeth Jongkind]

I think this problem has been fixed in the meantime by the FCP X update
Because I have a panasonic HC-X900 and when I attach it with the USB cable to my mac,
and tell FCP X to import from camera,
it shows my camera as NO NAME ont the camera import window
and it recognises my 1080/50p clips
and it imports them
the finder says the imported clips are 1920 x 1080 / 50 fps

my question:
this is the easiest way to import my clips, but is it also the best, quality-wise?
Does FCPX do something to the clips while importing them that causes quality loss?
Should I convert the clip before I import it in FCP X?

Thanks,

Liesbeth