[Nick Meyers]

remember if you are having weird behavious in FCP,
then it;s probably time to be trashing your preferences

read this https://www.lafcpug.org/Tutorials/basic_trash_prefs5.html

[Nick Meyers]

#1 reason MM doesn’t trim properly:

you haven’t UN-ticked the check boxes for
“Include Master Clips Outside Selection”
& “Include Affilate Clips Outside Selection”
& maybe even (Include Non-Active Multiclip Angles

#2 reason MM doesn’t trim properly:

some large files in your sequence don’t have a reel#

#3 reason MM doesn’t trim properly:

despite all the un-ticking, MM is still hanging onto some master clips.
copy the sequence into a new project and try again.

this is a fairly OLD problem, but you didn’t say what version of FCP you are running. (naughty bishop!)

nick

[Nick Meyers]

this a copy/paste from Sydney FCP:
https://com1.runboard.com/bsydneyfinalcutpro.f10.t194782

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these are merged clips, perhaps?
MULTI-CLIPS???
they do act weird, end can have sync issues when re-conecting

well here’s a thought:

use Media Manger to move JUST THE CLIPS YOU NEED.
\no need to do the whole show again just for a couple of files.

you can be very selective with MM.
select a few clips in your timeline,
open MM, and you are just dealing with the selected clips.
say you want a new project made,
and when it opens the clips will appear in a timeline.

that should save you a bunch of time

when you make your initial selection,
put a bit of slug at the head of the timeline & also select that.
that will also appear in the new project,
and you can then select all in the new timeline,
and paste into the original one on some upper tracks. (good idea to colour them too, i guess)
having the slug place-holder at the head of the timeline will allow you to paste from the head of the problem timeline, and all the new clips will be in sync

cheers,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

“I clicked OK for all the clips.”

that’s telling FCP to leave the clips un-connected.

do the reconnect again, and this time choose “Continue”
maybe try one clip and see what happens before doing the lot.

what’s going on with those clips?
where they merged clips?

nick

[Nick Meyers]

“The sound deisgner and I are both just very curious on why things like this happen”

me too!
i’ve had clips where there seems no reason they should have the green line,m and they do.
i think it;s a format thing like you say,
but i have no idea how you;d control it, or create the situation you have.
like you say, have a deeper look into hte sequnce audio settings.

“Also, when you make OMF’s you only have the choice of bit rate, sample rate, and if it is stereo or mono”

ok, here’s my half-educated guess:
AIFF and WAV are just slightly different “wrappers” for audio that basically uses the same type of compression
(kinda guessing this..)

when you open an OMF in ProTools, you have to tell it what format you want, AIFF, wav, or whatever.
(this i know)

what happens when you make an OMF is all the audio gets packaged into one file, along with a “set of instructions” on how it all un-packs
so my guess is that the OMF is behaving as another sort or “wrapper” for all that audio.

cheers,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

the green line on top of the audio clip indicates that there is some sort of miss-match somewhere.

the grey line indicates the same thing, but that that file has now been rendered.

if you want, you can check the clip’s properties by right clicking on them ,and choosing “properties > format”
there must be some slight mis-match?

that it flips from sequence to sequence is interesting, but hard to sayt what;ls realy goijg on there without knowing the seqnce settings in detail (audio part of them, anyway)

“My sound designer feels that FCP is somehow changing one of the other a small small amount during the OMF export.”

well, the OMF export will be converting all the files to a uniform setting:
whatever you chose when you made the OMF.

i did a whole feature where every file had a slightly off-standard audio rate
(this was a 24@25 PAL project, where Cinema Tools alters the play-back rate of the files,, altering the sample rate in the process)

the sound editors compared my OMF audio with a few takes re-captured from DAT,
and said they could hear no difference

” the reason this is a big issue for my project is that it is animation and the animators animated to exports straight out of FCP”

not that big a deal.
based n my experiences, your timing wont change at all.
nevertheless, you should always put pips at the head and tail of your exports so sync can be verified.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

subclips are pretty well behaved these days.

about a year ago i saw them playing up when moving a project between 2 FCP systems.
that was a traditional weak point for subclips, so watch out for that.

and there *could* be problems if you use them in multiclips.
i wont say there will be problems, because my particular problem was very specific.
it would be good to hear from someone else re subs in multiclips.
or test it for yourself.

cheers,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

speed ramping is apparently the weakest point of Media Manager.

i would go thru your original fine-cut timeline, and find all the speed ramp shots
(opening up clip keyframes view of the timeline will help: Option T)

match frame your ramped shots, and cut them back in above the ramped shot on a brand new track.
this should give you a non-effected version of the shot.
when you MM you will at least get all the CORRECT frames you need to re-build the shot if the ramped version comes out screwy.

in the past, even simple speed mods didn’t survive the MM.
i tried this trick of mine as a possible escape-route,
and it actually made the MM’ed versions behave.
cant gurantee you’ll have the same luck with ramped shots,
but at least you will have an escape route.

probably someone else has more ideas

good luck,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

in a discussion we had a while back,
Shane mentioned that he found the output of SVO a tad over-blown.

maybe that;s why he moved the post you mentioned?

Shane has also advised using SVO to output some Black with appropriate code (in this case 10Hr code)

then try an assemble edit to tape.
good luck with FW deck control on that.
i could never get it to work,
but Jude Cotter swears by it.

Shane, Jude, Me…hey, this is a regular lafcpug party i’m having here on my own 🙂

nick

[Nick Meyers]

Apple Certification i think would really only help you get work as a TRAINER.

and even then it’s only going to help you get work in Officially Sanctioned Apple Training situations.

nick