Nick Toth
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Is the “Media Storage” setting in the Import section of your preferences set to “Leave Files In Place” or Copy Into XXX Event”? What you’re describing sounds like you have “Leave Files In Place” selected.
anickt
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What you’re seeing is definitely not normal behavior. I use compound clips all the time including the dreaded CC inside of CC with a large number of layers inside and I’ve never seen this. I’ve been on FCP X since 10.0.0 and editing nonlinear for over 20 years. I’d look for bad fonts, some kind of clip corruption or maybe the project just got corrupted somehow. Sometimes it’s weird things. A guy came to me with a render problem. He had a Motion based template on his timeline. He had put a fade on the front of it for some reason (the template already had an incoming transition). Removed the fade and everything was fine.
anickt
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Do the luma key. I’ve been doing it since the days of video switchers and tube cameras. The same idea carries forward into today’s NLE’s. Why make it difficult?
Also, you can’t apply overall color correction to your white clips. You have to correct one white clip to match the other.
anickt
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I have always had good luck dealing with this situation by using a luma key. In your case luma key the layer with the person. It doesn’t have to be absolutely perfect. It is otherwise very difficult and sometimes impossible to match white shot with a camera to a generated white. Then use a black clip over everything for your fade as others have said.
anickt
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There are many unmapped commands for the Color Board in the Command Editor. Just search “Color Board”.
anickt
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What if you change its channel configuration in the inspector from MONO to LEFT or RIGHT. Then the audio is panned left or right and doesn’t lose any level.
anickt
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I often use one or two layers of color solids or a gradient generator cropped so they create a stripe across the top and/or bottom of the screen as a background for graphics. I crop them to fit the graphic overlay and the video is on a layer under generators.
If I need to I adjust the y position of the video to move it up or down as necessary. It does not need to be cropped because it is masked by the generator. If it needs to be animated due to motion within the frame it’s a simple matter to keyframe the y value but often it’s not necessary.
You can also use a cropped adjustment layer as Don says but in my case I use generators because I may want a color or gradient. For instance a client wants their website and logo up throughout the video on the lower third or maybe logo at the bottom and website at the top of the frame.
In your case, the cropped adjustment layer sounds like all you need.
anickt
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Bret – sorry to say this (because I know it doesn’t help much) but I cannot replicate these issues on my system.
anickt