[Nick Meyers]

simple way to do it in FCP”

make a new sequnce,
drag you existing one into it.

select the nested sequnce,

control . (full stop) will pan it to the center.

otherwise do it externally.
pan your mixer to the center, or switch your amp to mono if you can.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

hey, kevin,
this is probably to late, but it’s:

Apple Shift Tilde (similar to the finder’s Apple Tilde, but in practice a bit of a pretzel twister)

all the best,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

only manually, at the time you create the subclip.

you can UN-subcliop the subclip, though.
select it in the timeline,
Modify Menu > remove subclip limits

nick

[Nick Meyers]

if it works, it works.
if you render all your fx, and do an audio mixdown there’s no difference between PTV and timeline playout.

there’s a much easier way to get your flex file into FCPv5:
file menu: import telecine log
comes direct into FCP and makes a cinema tools database at the same time.

cheers,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

to do it in FCP:

adjust the speed of your audio via Modify > Speed.
then you alter the pitch with the Audio FIlters > AU > Pitch

it;s very un-intuitive, and there are no instructions
and the slider doesn’t tell you what it;s increments are
but another editor & i at least figured out a correlation between speed & pitch:

if we slow audio by 14%, say, (so actual speed is labeled as 86%)
then the pitch goes down,
and we enter a pitch increase in the filter of 280.
that’s 20x the % difference.

we’re always slowing audio, and haven’t tried it the other way, but it probably works?

oh, yeah,
did i mention it sounds crappy?
kind of tinny.
better than what the other poster described

nick

[Nick Meyers]

that;s about it, i;m afraid.

you cant really search the timeline for anything other than names or time-codes.

but if it;s just for the sake of capturing the clips, you can select the entire timeline, and when the batch capture window opens, you have the choice via the top pull-down menu of capturing all selected,
or just offline clips

nick

[Nick Meyers]

no you dont have to open the file in anything,
FCP still claims it’s “in use” and wont overwrite.
boring!

[Nick Meyers]

depends what speed was used when you shot the film.

if 25, edit at 25.
if 24, you need to conform the video after capture to 24fps,
and set it;s TC rate to 24@25
edit in 24 fps sequencse with a TC rate 24@25.

think that;s it,
but it;s all in the manual.

good luck,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

it;s a stereo clip.
so panning will move both channels to the centre, or swap left & right.

you have to un-stereo the clip first.

in the timeline, select it, and option L.

read more on audio in the manual.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

sorry, that function doesn’t exist.
unless it was introduced in 5.1.2

nick