[Nick Meyers]

i’ve had problems with subclips moving from system to system.
my problem was they were all there, but out of sync

you say they are “non-existent or don’t reference anything?”
more info please.
are they offline?

did you get the reconnect window when you opened your project?
have you tried reconnecting?

nick

[Nick Meyers]

nevertheless, it would be better if you could do this from within FCP, as you can with your keyboard layouts,etc

as it is, a lot of people DONT make a backup of their faves, and then lose them with a pref trash,
or an up-date.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

faves are stored in FCP’s preference file.

you cant get inside that to access the faves, or anything else.

i’m suggesting you copy paste your faves into a special “Favorites” project
where you save and store that is u to you.

but back to prefs for a moment:
the common wisdom is that once you establish a set of preferences that you like,
you back them up,
or use one of the Pref – apps that are out there.

i prefer FCP Attic
https://www.chesa.com/pro/
you should definitely read this:
https://www.lafcpug.org/Tutorials/basic_trash_prefs5.html

nick

[Nick Meyers]

yup,
there was a big debate about this recently at lafcpug.

given that you can save & load keyboard layout, window layout, column layout, etc.
it’s a bit of a shock to find that you aren’t given a similar option with your faves,
and yet they are so ephemeral that will just disappear completely with a pref dump.

the way to preserve them is to copy/paste all your faves in to a separate “Faves” project.
this is NOT mentioned in the manual,
although i think it does point out that you can store project-specific fave sets within the project itself.

stu, if you had some very specific faves such as precisely tweaked EQs, or motion fx,
you can open old projects, and rescue them from clips they are applied to.
otherwise, you will have to re-build them

cheers,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

a pain? that seems a bit extreme!

no preference to change this in FCP.
as i said, if the show is ALL non-sync, cant you keep the tracks locked all the time?

BTW, if you do have linked picture & sound, and need to tweak one without the other,
OPTION select on pic or sound will select just those edits,
or SHIFT L will turn off linking in the timeline altogether

nevertheless this wont help you when rippling

next best thing to make it less painfull would be to re-map the lock functions.

i;ve got mine mapped to :
CONTROL + number pad 1-8 = lock video track
CONTROL + number pad zero = lock all or none video tracks

CONTROL OPTION + number pad 1-8 = lock audio track
CONTROL OPTION + number pad zero = lock all or none audio tracks.

i was cutting a show with multitrack audio last year,
and found myself locking and unlocking all the time.
it was a totally transparent aspect of my workflow,
and i know the re-map helped.

cheers,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

This is a job for…. Media Manager!

collect all the stuff you want to move in one place in FCP
(if it ls all in one sequence, that’s easy,
otherwise gather the sequences you want to move, and any extra clips / audio etc into one bin.

select the bin and go to File Menu > Media Manager

chose MOVE from the 1st pull-down,
DONT delete unused
Base Media File Names on: Existing File Names

a warning:
MOVE mode will copy the relevant files to the new drive,
and delete the old ones behind itself.
in some situation, (like if you ARE deleting unused media) then this can be problematic.
MM can make mistakes about what part of teh shots are being copied, and once the original is deleted it;s too late to do anything about it.
so in some cases you are better off using COPY mode in MM, checking the results, and doing the delete manually (in FCP using the Make Offline command)
HOWEVER, as you would be moving entire files the MOVE mode would be pretty safe.

if you do decide to delete the unused parts of the shots, then maybe consider COPY mode
also if you use Delete Unused, then you MUST request a new project in MM.
this will open with a copy of your sequence/s connected to the new media.

either way the end result will be all the media, video and audio files, all in one new location on the RAID.

hope that helps,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

if your audio is not sync, then just keep the tracks locked,
otherwise FCP will assume you want to keep things in sync and ripple audio with pic.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

there is a “pitch” audio filter in FCP.

controls are obscure,
but if you change clip speed to 110%,
try a pitch setting of -200
(it seems to work on multiples of 20 – when i slowed images to 86% a pitch setting of +280 worked for me)

the quality may not be to your liking,
but check it out.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

“but when you edit a sequence onto a sequenc in FCP, it doesn’t edit the original clips, it seems to edit a refernec to the sequence”

there’s a trick with that.

F9 and F10 will insert or overwrite a nested sequence, as you discovered (read up on nests in the manual)
but APPLE F9 and APPLE F10 will edit the contents of the sequence across, which is what you want.

cheers,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

there’s no simple way to automate this, im afraid.
there might be some way to use XML,
but you;ld probably have to write your own software!

a good timesaver would be to alter the TC of either the 8tk audio or the mix you used to match each other.
to modify TC of a clip, open it in the viewer, then Modify Menu > Timecode.

in your sequence make enough new target tracks.
turn your video tracks’ visibility OFF (green buttons left of timeline)
this will make navigating to each new audio clip easier
turn on Timecode overlays (option z)
and start cutting away:

park on head of 1st audio clip.
x will mark in/outs around it
Q key will toggle between canvas/timeline and viewer
Tab key x 2 will move you to the viewers timecode field
type in the TC you see in the canvas,
F10 to make the edit.

cheers,
nick