Mike Bonner
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Very strange. Like I said, I had problems with disappearing thumbnails. I use two identical drives that I will work off of from work and at home, transferring the library whenever I make a change. The project at my work machine didn’t experience any problems, but my portable drive gave me the problems I described. As a test I plugged my portable drive into my work computer, and low and behold, there were two clips that came up black. Checking the files in the finder, they played back fine. I tried reconnecting, deleting and replacing, trashing the cache, but each time they would come up black. Finally, I copied the event into a new library, and they were back. This is discouraging because I had a problem on a different project exporting, and it too was solved by creating a new library. So, libraries corrupting? But, this seems strange as I delete and replace the old library everyday just before going home.
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Oh, I forgot to mention:
I deleted the cache, trashed preferences, and trashed plists.
I also see now that I have a few clips in a multicam clip that show up black, playback black, but audio is audible. Original clips play fine in the Finder.
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Corrupt Library?
The same media exported fine when a new project was created with an XML. Whatever the problem was, going through the XML solved it. -
Update:
I removed FCPX and associated files, reinstalled, and was able to create new projects that exported normally, however, the project I was having trouble with still wasn’t exporting. I tried copying event into a new library, as well as copying all clips into a new project. Same thing. I had success with exporting an XML of the project into a new library, it exported ok, but I got a long list of “frame boundary” warnings upon import of the xml.
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I doubt it. Hopefully, someone can prove me wrong, but I’ve tried everything to keep my fingers on the keyboard to select a connected clip. I submitted a feature request to Apple, but I kind of doubt that would be on the priority list.
If you’re lucky, sometimes you can select the ends of connected clips, but that’s only if they don’t line up with the end of a clip in the primary storyline. Would be nice to somehow toggle through the tracks, ur, ugh, layers. -
OK, you guys have some good points. I’ll give the defaults a shot (with a few modifications of course).
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You can xml out of fcpx into Davinci Resolve (Lite) , then export an AAF out of Resolve.
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I just downloaded it.
I’m working while traveling for the holidays, and wanted a little more real estate in fcpx.
I think it works just fine. Using an iPad 2 with the resolution set to normal. I would stay away from using it as a GUI if possible. I don’t know if “lag” is the right term, but the mouse pointer is just a hair off response wise. But, certainly doable. However, using it to monitor the video was perfect.
Hope that helps.