[Mary Kay miller]

Michael,

Something you can try to keep newly added media from messing up your timeline

1. First thing in a empty project. In Browse page Add a new folder no need to put anything in it yet
2. In conform page Load xml as you would normally
3. navigate to your media, OK, name session if needed, OK
4. when the window comes up to select folders uncheck the empty folder that you added, apply (This should keep the session from auto conforming any media you later put in that folder)
5. Back to the Browse page and add new media to the empty folder
6. check your session hopefully your original conform will not have changed
7. If this worked you can now find the scenes you want to replace and use the “Force conform” or you can try the Reconform from Folders selecting the folder with the new media.

Not knowing your exact workflow I don’t know if this will work for you or not. Hopefully it will help.

MK

[Mary Kay miller]

Michael,

To do what you are asking can be done. Not my first choice. To do what you are asking. Set up the project and add the offline clip as an offline clip as normal. If you have found that some of the shots are wrong you can again from the Browse page, add that offline clip into the media pool NOT as an offline just add to media pool like a regular clip. Now back in the conform page still comparing with the offline. Add a track, Drag the media you just added to the empty track. Turn off the visibility on that track (the little movie camera) Keep comparing and when you find a bad shot you can turn on the visibility to see if it is the correct shot. Splice the clip on that track, delete the bad shot on the track below and drag the correct shot down.

There are several better ways to do this. If all the clips you need are already in the media pool and already split. When you find the bad shot select it in the track, find it in the media pool and select it. Right click on the track and “Force conform with selected clip in media pool”.(OK on TC mismatch it you get that message). It will put the selected clip in place of the clip on the track, you might need to slip it if you have handles and TC doesn’t match.

For your problem of conform changing on shots added mid project TC of the clips added can make this happen. If you find this happen try to disable the force conform check box on the clip that has changed by right click on timeline then and with the C conflict showing on the clip and you can put the correct shot back.

Hope that helps.

[Mary Kay miller]

Michael,

To do what you are asking can be done. Not my first choice. To do what you are asking. Set up the project and add the offline clip as an offline clip as normal. If you have found that some of the shots are wrong you can again from the Browse page, add that offline clip into the media pool NOT as an offline just add to media pool like a regular clip. Now back in the conform page still comparing with the offline. Add a track, Drag the media you just added to the empty track. Turn off the visibility on that track (the little movie camera) Keep comparing and when you find a bad shot you can turn on the visibility to see if it is the correct shot. Splice the clip on that track, delete the bad shot on the track below and drag the correct shot down.

There are several better ways to do this. If all the clips you need are already in the media pool and already split. When you find the bad shot select it in the track, find it in the media pool and select it. Right click on the track and “Force conform with selected clip in media pool”.(OK on TC mismatch it you get that message). It will put the selected clip in place of the clip on the track, you might need to slip it if you have handles and TC doesn’t match.

Simply adding clips into the media pool mid project will not change your timeline if you are doing it from the Clip Details Window on the Browse page. You must be doing it on the conform page with load or pre conform.
Add them from the Browse page but first add a folder in the Media pool Folders. Put the new clips in this new folder. Then back on the conform page you can right click on the timeline and reconform from folders. If that does not work because of TC conflicts or other reasons. Still add the new clips to a separate folder, it makes them so much easier to find and do the select and Force conform method for all clips you want to replace.

Hope that helps.

[Mary Kay miller]

Something happened in version 8 that looks like the Wipe Type-A is broken. In version 7 this was an A/B wipe. I hope they fix this in 8.1.

The work around is to change the Type of Wipe to a Horizontal or Vertical Wipe you can do this using the shortcut Shft W or the View Menu “Wipe Type”. Once in one of these Types you can, as mentioned by Emilio drag the wipe to cover the frame you can also do this with the mouse. The shortcut CMD W, and I would guess F5 on the wave (I’m not using a Wave) will toggle the Still frame on and off.

[Mary Kay miller]

I had this problem, but it did not happen after the upgrade. It had been working fine then one day I just started to get that same message. I rebooted my Mac and all was fine again.