[Matthew Bergsma]

With Final Cut X you can work easily with multi frame rate stuff on a clip by clip basis – so you can shoot at 720p 60i with your 60d and edit in a 24p sequence and just have the “normal speed” clips drop frames so they are “in sync” with the audio – and when you want to do speed ramps or change the speed entirely of a clip you can right click on it and conform the speed to play the 60fps at 24.

[Matthew Bergsma]

Hi Jordan – I registered an account today just so I could respond to this.

Tonight I just discovered that it is actually possibly to select more than 2 clips and get them to go in linear order instead of stacking on top of each other.

The trick is that you need to control which clip in your selection will become the primary storyline for the compound clip.

What I did was select the audio clip first, and then select the 5 video clips after that by command-clicking on them. I then right clicked on the audio clip and selected the “synchronize” function. Lo and behold I got a compound clip with the video connected to the audio in the right places instead of stacking all on top of each other.

I have not yet confirmed if the intended behavior is that the first clip you select becomes primary or if the clip you right click on becomes primary.