[Nick Meyers]

“I thought the whole point of nests is that they change to match what you’ve done in your edit? Why/how would they be different?”

what’s happened in hosts cases is that the nest has been cut into the timeline
then the nest has been trimmed,
so the content of the nest hasn’t been changed, but what part of it that’s in the timeline has.

if you;be only got a few, then just do the copy paste method, i think

park on the 1st frame of the nest.
hit x to mark around it,
copy the duration from the Canvas

double click to open the nest
mark an in point
paste the duration back in the canvas
you should now have the in and out points marked

option a to select in-out
copy,
then paste back in your timeline.

shame you didn’t get to try the drag from the browser method.
musch faster!

nick

[Nick Meyers]

you need to up your number of real time audio tacks.
FCP is set to 8 by default, so if you have two 5track audio clips overlapping, it”ll start beeping.

open user prefs (Option Q) and set the number of RT audio tracks to 24 as a minimum.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

there is a way to do it without copy/ pasting, but it’s not necessarily easier.
it can be, but it depends on the situation.

do the nests in the timeline have handles?
is what’s in the timeline the entirety of the nest? of has the nest been put in the timeline and subsequently trimmed?

NO HANDLES?

if you ‘re sure there are no handles on the nests, you can do this:
go thru and add a number to their names, 01-99
copy them all to a new bin in the browser.

— EDIT —
no don’t copy them, you have to DRAG them

make sure they are sorted in order.
select them all EXCEPT the top one
hold Command, select the top one (they should now all be selected)
drag to the canvas, and drop in the Overwrite window
BAM!
you’ve goot all the content back in one go

IF THERE ARE HANDLES

reduce the nests to what is in the timeline:
double click the nest into the viewer
Make A subclip
you get a “sub-nest” in the browser that is trimmed to the used duration.
while the subclip is made you can enter a name, so now is the time to ad your incremental number

then do the drag and drop thing mentioned above.

cheers,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

yeah, mine’s from this year.
my older film are in storage, so can’t check them,
but pretty sure that even a few years go i was doing this.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

yeah, i think you have to do those “unspecified path” file individually.

as Dave says try something else first:
re-start,
or try an autosave version, see what happens.

depending on on how many file there are, and what you are wanting to achieve,
you might be better of re-building the edit.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

“It won’t work with ProRes from Alexa”

works for me.

i remember we were prepping files for VFX a couple of years ago,
and I’m pretty sure we were trimming using MM.
just tried it now, and it works.
i might try again tomorrow with some more files.

MM wont trim if you don’t have a reel#
maybe that’s what’s happened on your end?

nick

[Nick Meyers]

your question is a little bit vague!

if you want to get all the used clips into a new bin, copy the sequence into a new project,
then Tools Menu > Create Master Clips.

you’ll get one instance of every master clip used in the timeline.
you’ll also get master clips for each text (or other) generator,
so maybe clear them out first if you want.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

ap4h is another term for ProRes4444.
simply putting the clip into FCP7 won’t change it.

now you could export from your timeline, and if you export as a Quicktime movie, current settings, it should be a direct transfer, no quality loss at all,
but that will lose possibly important metadata.

you can export from the viewer and maintain that metadata,

but best i think would be to use the media manager.
you can do a whole group of clips in one go,
keep all the metadata, and have no risk of accidental changes (a filter you added and didn’t remove, for isntance)

select the clip(s) in the timeline,
File Menu > Media Manager
use COPY
delete unused (to trim to just the used sections)
add handles for safety

if you have done some basic composting, like simple layering of clips, then you would be wise to create a new project as well,
then your VFX person can use that as a guide,
or you can export it as an XML which they would use.

talk to them about it all, too.

hope that helps,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

Yes, and no.

yes you can links the 4 tracks, as Shane says, (and indeed you SHOULD have them linked)
but no, they won’t behave the way you want them to, like a Stereo clip.

your rubber-banding of the audio level is on a single track only.
often this is good, as the separate tracks often have quite different audio.
but when you quickly want al tracks to follow that same volume graphing, its a pain.

what i do after key-faring the first track, is to select the clip (all tracks)
Copy (Command C)
then Paste Attributes (Option Command V)

you get a warning “can only copy from the first track” (or something like that), but that’s OK.
select Levels in the Paste Attributes window, hit OK, and you’re done.

still a bit of a drag….

obviously if it’s to ease something in or out, just add an audio transition.

cheers,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

really you do have to convert to ProRes
it’s your best option.

what’s your objection to it?