Michael Hancock
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Glad it helped!
I do wish that FCPX had a true “subclip” option, and I’ve submitted feature requests for it to Apple, but I don’t think they’ll ever actually implement it. Using multiple keywords is about the closest as I’ve gotten to replicating the subclip functionality in Premiere/Avid, where you can have a subclip with overlapping media from another subclip but they remain discrete clips, without the software merging them into one clip.
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Michael Hancock
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Is there a reason you aren’t using Favorites or Keywords to make your subclips, as opposed to compound clips? They are much more flexible and I believe will better achieve what you’re looking for (i.e. creating subclips in FCPX, which technically don’t exist in the program).
FCPX operates quite differently in a lot of ways than Premiere or Avid, and subclipping or marking selects is one of them. Rather than creating a subclip, mark your I/O on the section you like and with hit F to mark it as a favorite (you’ll see a green line appear on the top of the footage in the browser to show it’s a favorite range), or hit Cmd+K and add a keyword to that section. Then you can select the clip and hit Ctrl+F to only show favorites and it’s like you’re you’re looking at a bin of subclips. Or click on the keyword and you’ll see the sections you marked with that particular keyword.
The limitation you might run into in FCPX is that favorite ranges and keyword ranges cannot overlap and still be discrete. So if you mark sections 2-4 seconds and make it a favorite, then want to also mark a range from 3 – 5 seconds as a favorite the overlap will make the favorite merge into one long favorite from 2-5 seconds. The same thing happens with keywords. The way you get around it is to mark the range from 2-4 seconds as Keyword1 (or whatever keyword you want) and the range from 3-5 seconds as Keyword2. Then you can select both Keyword1 and Keyword2 to show them as separate subclips, even though there is overlap. It’s not elegant, but it’s possible.
Does that help at all?
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Michael Hancock
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Roles could help a bit, I suppose. Auditions are great sometimes, but I don’t think they would really help much in this situation because you would need to create the audition with the exact same sections of audio that you used, so you may as well just overcut everything.
To use roles to help, you could set the music in your timeline to be a MusicWatermarked role and then unwatermarked music role just Music, then when you turn on Show Audio Lanes you can stack the two under each other so you can line up the waveforms easier. More of an organization thing than anything (and part of what makes tracks so useful in situations like this).
When I run into this relinking issue I just match frame the watermarked audio in my timeline and make note of the timecode or time from start, then go to the unwatermarked audio and go to the same point and attach it, then manually line it up if it’s a frame or two off (or less than a frame). I do this for every edit, if I’ve cut the music up to fit a specific time/beat, etc…. It doesn’t really take long, but it’s a nuisance.
Something to do in the future is to take your watermarked music at the beginning of your edit and create a compound clip of it, then edit with that compound clip. That way you can just open the compound clip and drop the unwatermarked music over it, line it up to match the watermarked music if it’s slightly off, then either delete or mute the watermarked music. This will ripple into all of your sequences. It’s a good practice to get into.
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Michael Hancock
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This might work, but if the unwatermarked tracks are different in any respects it won’t because FCPX is incredibly strict when it comes to relinking.
1. Select the watermarked track in your library.
2. File–Relink
3. In the Relink box, click on All (since your watermarked version isn’t offline)
4. In the Relink box, click Locate All.
5. Point to the unwatermarked file.
6. Click Choose. If the file can be linked to the unwatermarked version it will link it and you can just hit Relink Files in the Relink box, and your watermarked file will be replaced with the unwatermarked version. If it can’t, you’ll get an “Incompatible File” error and it will tell you why it can’t relink.If you get the Incompatible File error, you’ll need to just import the unwatermarked audio and recut it into every project.
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Michael Hancock
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Nope. Submit it as a feature request.
https://www.apple.com/feedback/finalcutpro.html
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Michael Hancock
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No, you can’t. Good feature request for Apple, though.
Here’s a workaround:
1. Select the clip you want to replace and Cmd+C to copy
2. Replace the clip however you want (replace from start, replace from end, replace clip, etc…)
3. Now that you’ve replaced the clip, select it in the timeline and Cmd+Shift+V to paste attributes. This allows you to paste the original clip’s effects/transform/crop/distort/etc… parameters (including all keyframes) to the new clip.—————-
Michael Hancock
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[David Mathis] “Going to ask them to do the same for Events. “
I just sent in a feature request for manual sorting on a per event level, so you can sort one alphabetically ascending, another manual sorting, another by date created descending, etc… Hopefully it will show up in a future release.
[David Mathis] “Note: Projects in KeyFkow Pro are NOT the same as they are in Final Cut.
“Projects in anything else aren’t the same as projects in Final Cut. LOL.
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Michael Hancock
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You can make folders in events that can store keywords and smart collections. Right click on the Event name and choose New Folder, or hit Cmd+Shift+N. But even in folders you cannot manually sort keywords. It always sorts them alphabetically.
Feature request time! Ask for the ability to manually sort keywords. Or better yet, multiple options to sort (alphabetical, ascending/descending, manual, date, etc…). Right now you can’t even sort keywords by descending order alphabetically. It’s ascending alphabetical only.
https://www.apple.com/feedback/finalcutpro.html
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Michael Hancock
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Everyone that reads this thread – please submit feedback to Apple about the bug so it’s made a priority and gets fixed.
https://www.apple.com/feedback/finalcutpro.html
As to why you would send stuff to Compressor – there are a lot of reasons.
1. FCPX doesn’t have true background exporting. As soon as you start working again it pauses the export. But if you send it to Compressor it can run in the background and you can keep working.
2. In Compressor you can apply multiple compressions to one file very quickly, without having to build a bundle of exports like you would in FCPX.
3. In Compressor your compression settings can include a custom location and naming convention, so once it’s done it automatically gets put into the right folder and named a specific way. FCPX can’t do that.
4. Compressor can use multiple machines, making it faster in some cases than a direct export from FCPX.
5. Compressor can email you when it’s done. FCPX can’t.—————-
Michael Hancock
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It’s not, but there’s a wealth of info here, especially in the archives, which are what often pop up when you’re googling a problem. Having to look at some ads in the sidebar that aren’t intrusive and don’t pop up while you’re trying to read a post is a small price to pay.
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Michael Hancock
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