Mark Morache
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My goodness, I’m certainly getting bone weary of these guessing and waiting games.
Apple says these things will come out this year. I’m so tired of the awkward audio editing, the inability to select which attributes I can copy and paste, and a gaggle of other workarounds I use every day with this thing. Pleeeeeese… can I have my update daddy? I’ll be good. I promise.
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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.Mark Morache
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Glad you figured it out. This program has some very strange anomalies. It’s pretty easy to run across some land mines if you don’t know about them.
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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.Mark Morache
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Yeah.. I’m stumped. Perhaps if you posted a still or two of your timelines.
I’d take a look at the project settings for each of your timelines.
The fact that you get the error when you try to copy makes me think it’s not a settings problem, however since I don’t know what your timeline looks like I can’t say for sure.
I wonder why it has any issues with combining audio and video clips outside the primary storyline. Anything outside the storyline would be attached to something on the primary storyline right?
When you copy, are you using control-A to select all the clips in the timeline?
If it is having a problem because there is more audio than video, can you put a dummy clip on the end of the sequence you’re copying so there is more video than audio? I don’t know why that would make a difference, but it wouldn’t hurt trying it.
I wonder if you did something oddball when you first made your sequence and you’re paying for it now?
Can you copy part of your timeline? Try copying the first half. If that works, try copying the second half. Keep narrowing the range down until you find the culprit. Do you see anything unusual when you expand all of your audio for the entire timeline? Perhaps some hidden L-cut is messing you up? I’m grasping at straws.
Good luck
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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.Mark Morache
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I can’t see your timeline, but my guess is that you are trying to copy and paste within a compound clip. When you change the media within the clip, it doesn’t change the length of the compound clip containing the material.
Compound clips are tricky. I recommend using them sparingly, and if you ever take a long compound clip and slice it up with the blade tool, then you should break apart the pieces back into their un-compounded parts, otherwise it can bloat your project size and slow the application down.
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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.Mark Morache
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Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
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Go into your preferences, and under the “player” options, set your player background to checkerboard. What do you see now when you look at your still in the viewer? Do you see the checkerboard pattern where the white should be? Then it’s an alpha channel issue.
If your still is a jpg, there won’t be an alpha channel. So what do you actually see?
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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.Mark Morache
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Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
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Put your audio in a secondary storyline under your primary storyline. You can perform your audio edits and crossfades, and keep this storyline below the primary storyline.
This will need to be attached to something in the primary storyline. I’d attach it to my first shot, or perhaps a bit of black before the first shot.
Now you can to and make all of your video edits, and your audio will stay in place.
If it helps, you can cut all of your audio in the primary storyline, then once it’s perfect, you can easily select it all, and turn it into a compound clip, then right click and “lift from primary storyline”. Now you’ll still have your audio in it’s own lane, leaving the primary storyline open for your video edits.
G’luck.
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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.Mark Morache
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Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
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Boris… I’ve run into this before, and I can’t quite remember what I did, but try this:
Select the errant clip in the timeline index. This will select the clip and move the skimmer to the start of the clip. Press CMD-X to cut the clip, removing it from the timeline and placing it in the copy buffer. Now without moving the skimmer, paste as a connected clip with OPT-V.
When I ran into this, after the initial shock of the bug, I remember it was actually fairly easy to remedy with the workaround.
Let me know if this doesn’t work.
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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.Mark Morache
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Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
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There are two thIngs to consider, editing and archiving.
Separate events might be easier editing if there’s not a lot of crossover with your media. I do that with my work projects, and have an event called “elements” where I place common things.
If you’re going to archive the projects, and it makes more sense to have them separate (smaller folders on your archive drive, the ability to restore one video without resurrecting one huge mess…) then you might be happier with separate events.
I like keeping things separate so I can hide or remove stuff more easily.
Either way, it’s not a biggie. Both ways will work for you.
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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.Mark Morache
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Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
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If they want another $299, it better have all the big and little nigglies fixed, as well as mix me my evening cocktail and rub my feet.
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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.Mark Morache
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Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
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Don… I’d do a test. Put a bit of your multicam clip in a fresh timeline along with a bit of the same clip by itself (not part of the multicam clip) and export it with the current settings.
Play the clip in quicktime and see if there’s a difference.
I suspect that FCPX may playback mc clips at a lower resolution since so much bandwidth is needed. I’ve noticed the lessened quality when editing but have not noticed any issues when I export the final clip. I believe FCP7 operated likewise.
I hope they start taking care of these things with a new update soon. I’m feeling a bit discouraged that a lot of obvious issues haven’t been addressed yet.
With that said, I love how easy it is to select and cut camera angles in the angle editor. I really miss the ability to collapse the timeline clips back to their original clips because in FCP7 I used to group select my multicam clips in the timeline, option-drag them to a higher video track to create copies, then collapse the copied clips back to the originals. This allowed me to see the final cut in full res without rendering.
Let me know if you do the test, and what you find out.
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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.Mark Morache
FCPX/FCP7/Xpri/Avid
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
https://fcpx.wordpress.com
