[Michael Paul]

Yeh that was going to be my solution for the next time as well. Nesting it, editing with the nest and then replacing the audio inside the nest once I have bought it. It seems like a work around though. FCPX SHOULD BE ABLE TO REPLACE FOOTAGE. In fact this video deals EXACTLY with my problem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uonXI4yCxa0

So it should be able to do this but a lot of people in the comment section say
“Incompatible File: The new file is not long enough to cover clip Relinked files must have the same media type and similar audio channels as the original files, and must be long enough to cover all the clips that reference the files.”

So yeh a lot of people seem to have this problem and I will use your work around in the future but it seems wrong. An editing program should be able to replace footage with other footage and if there is an option for this it clearly must be a bug 😛

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[Michael Paul]

Solved: I had to install the Pro Media Files update under the update tab of OSX.

[Michael Paul]

I’ve saved the default settings as “Default German” and then switched to English FCPX so I can always look up commands and compare the German set up with the English set up to find the keys some tutorials are talking about. I see a lot of American users use the / key for playing just the selection or the beginning. I have not found the German key for this yet. Do you have any idea? It’s not a big problem because I just use space or shift I to jump to my in point. Totally off topic and I am doing fine at the moment but is it possible to use in and out on connected clips and remove something from the connected clips that way? It seems like in and out only works on the primer so I find myself working with the mouse a lot when adding b roll clips on top of the primer (Didn’t want to open a new thread for this). Thanks.

Also what other important buttons that I might need get screwed up if I am not using an American keyboard?

[Michael Paul]

Alright it is a BUG. I have fixed it and here is the solution for everyone else who might bump into this problem in the future: With the default key CMD + ^ it gets locked in and won’t be able to get deselected. ^ wasn’t taken at all so I saw no need for any modifier like CMD. So I simply assigned ^to override connection and that way it works. Now I just hope FCPX saves that short cut and won’t forget about it when I reboot.

[Michael Paul]

” Then those were clearly AGE old tutorials. As in 3+ years. Like they say: you get what you pay for.”
No need to get hostile or assume anything. It’s just something I saw in Youtube videos and since I am very new to the software I have no idea what is NORMAL and what isn’t normal so I don’t see any reason why you have to assume I’ve paid little money for very old tutorials or something like that. Like I’ve said I am very new to FCPX – I am using it under a week. Never mind though.
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THIS IS MY PERSONAL CONCLUSION IN CASE ANYONE IS WONDERING WHAT MY STATE OF MIND IS LIKE RIGHT NOW AND WHAT MY OPINION IS AFTER USING FCPX FOR A FEW DAYS AND AFTER LEARNING A LOT FROM YOU GUYS

First of all I would love to say THANK YOU VERY MUCH to EVERYONE in here. You guys have helped a lot. https://vimeo.com/158641571 is an amazing video that also helps a lot.

I’ve liked the organizing of clips from the very beginning. Very great.
I love that I can select areas I want to later use / hide those / that it shows me the dube detection INSIDE the clips. In Avid (for example) I add something to the time line and THEN I see: “oops it’s already in the time line” because of the dube detection. Knowing this in ADVANCE is amazing. Also here is a workflow I have in Premiere: One timeline with ALL my footage and then I “cut out” clips I need and later colour those in accordingly so I know that I have already used those – it can help a lot with big projects but the way FCPX handles it is just amazing.

Now here are important short cuts I have learned that make my life easier:
Set an IN and OUT for a clip and deleted everything that ISN’T in the in and out range.
Changing where a connector for a connected clip is located helps a lot as well.
Deleting a clip from the time line and leaving a gap is very handy as well.

So far I am really excited about learning a new program. You find stuff out and you are like “OH THIS IS COOL I never thought of it that way”. It’s all fun and I like it. Once again I would like to thank you ALL for the patience and GREAT replies.

Is there a way to change the color of markers?

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[Michael Paul]

I just felt the need to say that those videos are great so thanks for that. I’ve been looking at a lot of those in the past days but still felt the need to let you know that I really appreciated those.

[Michael Paul]

“You can use the timeline index to select everything on your right or left from the playhead.”

How exactly would I do this? So I have the timeline index opened but what do I do then? Totally unreleated but in some tutorials I saw people had a button NEXT to timeline index. I only have the timeline index button at the bottom left- any idea what it could have been? Also thanks for that advice.

[Michael Paul]

Here is the thing: I am starting to like the basic idea behind connected clips. In a nutshell: Everything stays together- it is connected.
Now here are some problems I have ran into and you might know a great way to deal with those I simply hadn’t thought of yet:
Music/Sound is connected to a clip in the primer. That clip in the primer has to go- I delete it and BAM my music/sound is gone as well while I would want it to stay – solution? Maybe tell it to be connected to a gap I am about to create and just stay where it is but I don’t know how – maybe it’s super easy but I just woke up because I had to type down this message and I have no Final Cut in front of me.

Same goes for this example: I was doing an interview- I had plenty of broll shots above my primer. Now the Interview had to get shortened / some clips and parts from the interview (which is the main time line / the primer) had to go. That way all my connected clips also got deleted while I would have just wanted them to stay where they were. Maybe I grouped them and put them into a second…nope that way they would still be connected to the primer and get deleted anyways so what’s the solution for this? Like a total noob and finding no solution for letting brolls be where they should be / let them remain at the same position I just copy and pasted them at the very end of my time line and put them back again after I had removed/trimmed and what not my main interview. This seems like a terrible workflow and I know this is NOT the way to do it but I didn’t know any better and still don’t know a solution for this. Thanks a lot. Seriously this keeps me awake at night or wakes me up again but I will go back to bed now.

Thanks a lot everyone for your great input! I really want to become a FCPX editor and I am serious about this. I see it as a challenge I want to master.

[Michael Paul]

Alright so I am a power user. I want my programs to do exactly what I want them to do. I feel like I have to ADJUST to Final Cut and I have to do as Apple intended me to do – there is no other way. Take it or leave it. This forcing something down your throat mentality is VERY Apple like. Now I know we are talking about an Apple product here so of course people who are CONVINCED of Apple’s mentality and mindset will be using those so I would be barking at the wrong tree here. It just won’t make me any friends here so lets not go there also Apple bashing or bashing in general is pretty immature.

Thing is: I WANT TO LEARN FCPX and I want to learn to love it. Overall you people are HAPPY with it and there must be reasons for it.

If I ignore the time line it seems pretty great. I really love how it organizes stuff. I also have no problem with how you select your footage- this is all great. I enjoy it but that time line…

I always read DON’T FIGHT THE MAGNETIC TIME LINE. Do not use it like any other NLE and don’t try to force your old work flow into FCPX – once you understand it and accepted it you will love it and you will never want back.
Those are phrases I hear everywhere but they seem to be without any meaning- like marketing mubo jumbo people bought in just like “Macs JUST WORK” (No they don’t. They are computers like any other computer). So PLEASE and I really BEG YOU and mean PLEASE what is so great about the magnetic time line? What is that mentality I have to accept- the mentality and mindset of doing WHAT exactly? I can’t exactly grasp yet what you guys mean.
I also FAIL at selecting stuff. I love features like that arrow you had in Final Cut 7 (or Avid or what not) where I can select EVERYTHING from the right of my play head or everything from the left of my play head. That way I can just move it all away. Do I seriously need to draw a rectangle each time?

[Michael Paul]

Could you kindly test that short on your machine and see if it works (with a restart) so I can tell if it’s just me or a common problem that can not be fixed and a workaround is the only solution. Thank you.

Also I think I will just get used to the standard short cuts even though they don’t seem to be thought out much. Don’t get me wrong. The English short cuts all seem to be great and thought out but the German short cuts are like “dang lets just put something there that might work” – I’ve often noticed localisations are a tad bad for Apple products like standard messages on OSX got CUT OFF (common stuff) because the text was too large for the text box OSX provided and they also wouldn’t shrink the font. Awful stuff. So I feel its a bit the same for FCPX. If you are located in the USA and use the American Engish version of their products everything works fine -if it’s something foreign you are a bit screwed and left out but that’s off topic so never mind and forget about my personal experience 🙂