[Mark Smith]

Top of the inspector pane in the ‘menu bar” you see a a film strip and an i circled and a speaker . Click on the speaker icon and you will see the audio tracks for the clip(s) you have selected. You can then check or uncheck the tracks you want to hear or use In that panel.

[Mark Smith]

Back in the office and took one shot at exporting an XML from the project I had in the corrupted library , and then importing the XML into a second reconstructed library.
Suprisingly and somewhat superficially the cut, graphics all of that seemed to a transfer over to a project in the new library just fine. THe audio was a problem with the imported XML and I think that was the case because the imported XML might have connected to the wrong verson of the main angle in the the original mulicam clip. I can’t sya for sure at this point and. I also don’t know if I can put the audio right in the imported XML , though it sure would be tempting to try, just as an experiment.
I was leery of trying this gambit while trying to get the project out the door, but now it seems that it might have worked, perhaps not perfectly, but close enough that if the audio could be resolved it would have saved hours of time.

[Mark Smith]

One benefit of
Library manager is the it gives you a list of your libraries and where the media was/is stored.

[Mark Smith]

The problem with multcam I was havng in 10.2.1 might have been due to the funky as it turns out bootleg version of X that was installed on the computer ( not my computer) that the project was being cut on. Evenutally due to a downward spiral of corrupted libray issues, the project was moved over to my machie and the audio behaved as expected in 10.3.4.
For a while the way X was behaving in 10.2.1 I thought i was in the Twilight zone or some alternate universe….

[Mark Smith]

Since I posed the question , I’ll make an xml experiment when I get back to the office and report back with my answer. I was concerned about doing that the heat of the moment – worried about corrupting another library , but now that the project has delivered I can muck it all up without worries.
Back in a week.

[Mark Smith]

I will try the xml export from flawed library – import into reconstructed library when I am
Back at my desk in a week. Trying to rescue the corrupted library was a big lift that failed. We managed to complete the edit with a reconstructed library built from almost scratch . Muticam in fcpx was pretty amazing syncing up a patchwork of camera files . The rebuilt project was cut in 10.3.4 which didn’t blink once, didn’t pinwheel once during the edit

[Mark Smith]

The point Is moot at the moment . I managed to cut and paste som sompund clips to save a little time and recut the rest . I’d still like to learn something more about XML , as I don’t really use it much but this situation might have been a good opportunity . Advice taken happily .

[Mark Smith]

There is nothing like having a flaky external hard drive in the mix to confuse thngs. The project has to deliver before we go on vacation ths weekend whch is why I am playing tech support at her office. Brought in a spare drive I had, copied library over to that drive and presto she bangs out 45 minutes of the hour long concert in a few hours. Things are running more or less as expected now, its fcpx 10.2.1 so it works, just not as well as 10.3.4

[Mark Smith]

That’s what I thought. So in the multicam clip editor you select the clip you want to be the monitoring clip, lets say it the top one in the stack of clips and select it and you get the shelf above the clip, that sort of grayish bar. Close multicam editor and open the time line version of the clip with the the angle viewer and select the film strip ( picture cuts only) and go to town. The project belong to my spouse and she is cutting on 10.2.1 at her office. ite been a while snce I multicamed and I’m not clear on what differences there may be between 10.2.1 and the latest 10.3 . I think its working ok for her now but gosh it was a pain to get to this point.

[Mark Smith]

A couple of things ; The 10,000 hour thing sure – grab a camera and go at it. Unless you see the results of your work- that is through the edit , you can also keep making the same mistakes over and over.. Having to edit what you shot or sit with some one else while they edit what you shot is one of the most squirm – inducing lessons that one can go through. SO yes, shoot by all means, but don’t just throw your stuff over the wall and have it disappear into the editor’s room, witness the edit or edit yourself.

Tim Wrote “But those are indeed its roots. Sync is sacred. Cuts are sacred. Placement on the timeline is sacred. None of this may be altered without honoring the forces that have bound them there.”

Back 1974 I made a video for an Urban Planning class I was taking . It was shot on Sony portapak and edited machine to machine on open reels, without an edit controller. The Time line was a build and was the condensed sweat and tears of my partner and myself. So yeah, this is where this “time line is sacred” attitude originated because the time line back then was almost the same as carving stone, so the time was pretty sacred.