[Manning]

Ah, went to the FCP manual and I see what you are trying to tell me to do. I don’t think that’s the problem. I’ve been performing this exact workflow for at least a year and never had it screw up the order of clips until yesterday.

My segments are just listed in column view, no thumbnails. There’s nothing to arrange. I should just be able to drag and drop and have them stay in numeric order.

No clue why this is happening.

[Manning]

Hey Kevin, I’m afraid I’m competely lost with your reply. I don’t know what you mean by a downward stair step pattern.

One of my editing workflows is to use capture now for the entire tape and run DV start/stop detect to break it into segments. I then expand the captured tape in the browser window so it shows all of the segments. I bring the entire tape to the timeline by selecting all of the segments, usually around 80, so numbered segments 1-80 in the browser –> dropped into timeline.

All of a sudden, in projects I open today, the segments get completely jumbled and rearranged when I drag and drop them into the timeline. And it’s completely random….Every time I do it, the clips are in a different order. Before, they’d line up numerically, same as they showed in the browser, in perfect sequence and unbroken timecode.

There is no reason I can see why this is happening.

Hope that was clearer and thanks for trying to help!!!