[Matt Scholes]

Ok, that makes sense.

Thanks

If you aren’t willing to change you shouldn’t be editing” – Richard Marks

[Matt Scholes]

Sorry Shane,

maybe i’m not being clear when I talk about only using two tracks.

This is how my workflow currently goes:

– I have 2 tracks of camera audio (the boom and a mix of the radio mics) which I sync to the external (however many track audio) in a syncing project.

– I then take these clips into a new cutting project, where I basically usually only enable the first two audio tracks on the timeline, so I’m cutting with the camera audio essentially. BUT the external audio is still in the master clip in the browser.

– When I’ve got picture lock I simply go over each piece of audio in the timeline and hit F to bring up the master clip in the viewer, which I then drag down into the timeline. Then I can make another pass of the edit bringing up or down certain mic levels ready to send an OMF to the dubbing mixer with all the tracks contained.

Obviously something went wrong with this project, it may have been me, but I’m trying to figure out what I may have done, in order to avoid it happening again, and can’t think of anything.

And to fair fair Shane, I’m all about trying to change my editing practice for the best and learn new workflows.

If you aren’t willing to change you shouldn’t be editing” – Richard Marks

[Matt Scholes]

Thanks Nick,

Unfortunately nothing worked, so I manually went through it.

Yep I tried the demo of s&l but it had quite a few problems. Might look into to in the future though.

Originally I’d only moved the bins from the syncing project to the editing one, so yes no idea where the problem arose. I guess i’ll just be super aware should reveal in finder or find in browser stop working.

If you aren’t willing to change you shouldn’t be editing” – Richard Marks

[Matt Scholes]

But surely making a checkerboard edit with 18 tracks of audio, sometimes with 7 different audio sources (including some harsh background noise) is completely impractical? And slows down your edit no end?

I’ve edited with two tracks for the first four episodes of what I’m cutting and it’s been incredibly smooth.

I just wasn’t banking on FCP having one of it’s mind bending moments.

If you aren’t willing to change you shouldn’t be editing” – Richard Marks

[Matt Scholes]

Hi Nick,

thanks for the reply.

How do you think the relationship could’ve been broken?

Those fixes look like good software, but we had numerous timecode issues with one of the cameras in terms of being aligned with the audio TC, which through running the demo it seems to cause huge problems.

Think im just going to have to manually go through everything using TC from the 2 track clip as a reference for the multi track clip. Not fun.

Just want to make sure I don’t make the same mistake again. Do you have any ideas to make sure that I don’t? I’ve been syncing the rushes in a project for each shoot day, then I merge the clips and copy and paste them into whichever episode’s project they belong.

I’ve cut four episodes so far for this season and this is the first in which this has happened.

If you aren’t willing to change you shouldn’t be editing” – Richard Marks

[Matt Scholes]

So when I try to reveal a clip in finder, nothing happens. I imagine this has something to do with the problem?

If you aren’t willing to change you shouldn’t be editing” – Richard Marks

[Matt Scholes]

Hi Anna,

did you resolve this in the end?

I currently have a broadcaster requesting delivery in 50i, but we shot 25p.

Did you just give them the 25p in the end? Or did you export out of fcp using 50i? And if so didthis work out okay?

If you aren’t willing to change you shouldn’t be editing” – Richard Marks

[Matt Scholes]

I’m doing something similar to this. Is this of any help?

so for each video clip I sync it in the timeline, link the new audio to the video and then make all the clips ‘independent clips’ by right clicking and selecting that options.

Then I crate a bin in the browser called synced rushes and drag and drop the new synced clips with all the audio layers to that bin, where you can rename them, subclip them or do whatever you want.

However, this doesn’t solve the problem of having to deal with editing 8 or however many audio tracks in the timeline, which is a right pain.

If you aren’t willing to change you shouldn’t be editing” – Richard Marks

[Matt Scholes]

Hi,

did you find a way to do this? I’m in the exact same boat with a sitcom. Scenes with several characters all with a different audio feed are a nightmare.

If you aren’t willing to change you shouldn’t be editing” – Richard Marks

[Matt Scholes]

🙂 Thanks Mark,

That’s a good point, I’ll speak to the producer and staunchly make the case for separate sets of cards for each episode.

In terms of file naming , do you think a generic clip name followed by renaming in FCP is a better practice than renaming at finder level? Or do you find it can sometimes lead to confusion?

Thanks

If you aren’t willing to change you shouldn’t be editing” – Richard Marks