Thank you Joe, exactly right! Don’t know how I designated “by reel” but “none” got rid of it for sure…that has changed my life for the moment!

Thanks again,

Mike

Hi there Jeremy, they seem to be folders… I have not made any attempt to invoke key words…and none of the sorting options in the browser makes a difference. You can see that I had several attempts to move the files around in order to try and remove the ‘folders’…

Hi there, can anyone tell me how I can avoid this: on importing media files (30), from a folder on my computer’s internal hard drive, fcpx puts files them into its own groups: 001, 002, 003 and 004 – some kind of invisible folders where all you can see are these numbers and ‘reveal triangles’ until you click on the triangles to reveal the…

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Hi there Jeremy, Thanks so much for your tip…I think I tried you method and have got it to work a few times now, with modifications:

1. Hit Shift + 3 / audio only – from the timeline menu (otherwise I bring pic and sound in with the edit despite the audio only step later…and I can’t get rid of the pic without doing away with the sound)

2. On…

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Hi Mark, just read your tip… seems like an elegant little work around…let me try it and get back to you…

Regards,

Mike

Hi there Jeremy, thanks for your thoughts. I played around all afternoon with loads of ways of trying to allow the sound to be manipulated separately from the video…expand audio, expand audio components, Edit – Lift from Main story line and delete pic, leaving a slug and the sound, (couldn’t make work)

In the end this apple site suggested the…

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…I’m finding that even when I detach the audio I still can’t manipulate it (cut or move it) independently of the picture….

Hi there Joe, thanks; yes I came across that one…but is not quite what I am trying to do. Imagine a similar shot to the one he deals with but much longer. You want to cut several of those underwater breaths out over the shot, and then butt all the remaining sound segments, up to each other – thus slipping sync within one clip, to get the smooth…

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Hi there all… Basic non linear editing technique – done on film, avid, fcp7, GV Rio – and even video without the slipping sync aspect: Can anyone tell me how you can cut the sound of a “sync” clip(ie a clip with sound and video recorded at the same time) whilst not cutting the picture…so cutting, lifting out sections. But then also, moving the…

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Hi there Joe and Terry, just to say thanks for the advice…I downloaded the trial version of FCPX and had a go at editing some of my own footage and as soon as I could see how easily it played on the X software I was hooked… with FCP7 I remember it was like pulling teeth to get MP4 files to work…so once I had got the project to use my media…

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Thanks Joe, so I’ll stay put with Mojave for a while then.

Hi Joe, here’s another quick question if I may try you… I am currently running Mojave 10.14.6 on my macbook pro. Would you say stick with Mojave for FCP or upgrade to the next OS…? I think I was reading here that the next OS is not so good with FCP…any thoughts on that…?

Regards,

Mike Halliday

Hi there Joe, Thanks so much for your reply. That’s a great steer to the 90 day trial. I will give it a try. Am dying to find out if I can now edit my own footage without the massive rendering processes that I had to go through with Version 7.

I will work through all the tips you have given here and the tutorials Terry recommended and it looks…

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Please excuse the duplication guys…being sure I had posted but that it must have failed somehow since I couldn’t see my post, I wrote it out again…not realising that the reason I could not see my original post was that it was being moderated! …must try harder!

Hi there Bob, Terry and Joe,

I wonder if I could ask a bit of very basic advice, which should fit into your narrative here…

I used FCP 7 for several years at work, and had my own copy at home on my macbook pro. I now have a Retina 15inch early 2013 so 64bit and running Mojave 10.14.6.

When FCP X came in and Apple stopped supporting version 7, we…

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Hi there Bob and Terry, I wonder if you can advise me…I have already noted those tutorials from Terry. I used to edit at work using FCP7 and had my own licensed home copy. Then when apple brought out version X and stopped supporting 7, work went over to Quantel Q-edit Pro – now Grassvalley Rio and dumped FCP. At the time FCP version X was a non…

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