[Pablito]

Yes, there is… I am not sure if it is alt-k or something similar… check out the short cut table in the fcp user manual…

[Pablito]

Nice! Thank you very much!!!

[Pablito]

Thanks everybody…

I usually work for theatre video, video art, live performances, commercials and, during the last year, news and video documentaion.

I do not have a studio since I live in small town and I usually travel for working…

My G4, as I said is quite old , even if it performs very well in what I usually do but it’s heavy to bring with me also if I usually do if my client has not his own machine…

I can’t afford 2 new machines at the moment because I am investing my money to create a small society with a photographer and to work for events’ documentation and theatre performances…

Does it make sense to buy a laptop as my new main machine for the first year and then buy a desktop when I can afford it?

Maybe is it better to keep my G4 MDD 867DP at home? I never used Motion on it because of the poor graphic card… Does it make sense to upgrade the graphic card on the G4 and keep it even if I buy a MacBookPro?

[Pablito]

Ok, problem solved! I got a technical scheme of the previous set up and it was very simple…

[Pablito]

Well, yesterday, at night, I went to a friend of mine that still uses Avid… I tried to manage some sublclips with contigous IN/OUT point and… Suprise! In that situation, Avid too produces a single media file!!
This morning FCP export cue solved my problem!
thanks
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[Pablito]

Thank you! I thought using “copy” was not the right way to make the job but it is very useful (first time I tried I had to recapture an entire reel). I have about 300Gb free on my RAID and my source material is about 6 hours DV…
I tried different times using “copy” but the result was the same. FCP produced a single file named as the first subclip I selected. Then I found out that since I use DV start/stop detection most my sublcips begin a frame after the end of the previous subclip (eg. subclipA OUT 12:00:12 subclipB IN 12:00:13). In this case FCP Media Manager do not divides the source media file. If I set the IN point of subclipB 2 frames after subclipA OUT (eg. subclipA OUT 12:00:13, subclipB IN 12:00:15) Final Cut divides the source media files into two single files… Ok here’s a solution but don’t you think FCP Media Manager has too many bugs for a version 5?

[Pablito]

thanks a lot!