[Raju Bhai]

OK, i’m halfway there. If i select the frame on my timeline and match frame to the source clip, then i can go to that frame on the source clip and press F as a reverse match frame which will move the playhead to the corresponding frame in the timeline.
However, I have the same frame in several locations in the timeline. And when i reverse match frame from the source clip in the browser, while the playhead jumps to the corresponding frame on the timeline, i don’t know how to make it locate all the other instances of the same frame on the timeline. And that is the whole point, i’m trying to find where i may be using the same frame more than once on the timeline. If anyone can help, would be great, thanks.

[Raju Bhai]

Thanx Everyone!

SHane,
I use Compressor on Yosemite and have had no problem whatsoever with it.
When upgrading to 7.03, does it end up updating Compressor as well?

[Raju Bhai]

Thanks for that tip, however i’m afraid to upgrade to 7.03 from 7. You see, everything else (besides the re-rendering) is working perfectly fine with FCP and i don’t want to take chances of messing it up if i update. The reason being that i am actually working on the Yosemite OS! So have been fortunate that FCP 7 is running fine on Yosemite.

[Raju Bhai]

Thx for your input David. However, i know for a fact that all my footage conforms to the sequence settings. i transcoded everything properly and my sequence settings are all good. And when i drop my clips into the timeline, they never need rendering. Only after applying filters and other edits of course, do they need rendering.

My issue is this:
When i apply filters to a section of the timeline, it somehow throws unrelated clips in other sections of the timeline off render, and then i need to re-render those timeline clips even though i didn’t re-edit them in any fashion. So wondering why this is happening.

Also, please take note, i’ve been working on this project for about 2 month now, this is a new issue, this wasn’t happening before. That’s why i’m wondering if the FCP engine can’t handle so much editing and re-applying of filters and keyframes etc. But then again, i don’t see why it shouldn’t be able to handle it. After all, as long as i keep re-rendering after my edits, then FCP shouldn’t have to work that hard to play back clips in the timeline .

[Raju Bhai]

Steve,
I don’t see a 16pt garbage matte in FCP7, they only have 4 and 8pt.

Mark,
i google searched but i was unable to find your multipoint matte.

For whatever reason though, i can’t get the built-in FCP mattes to work, i don’t know why, therefore i wonder if i can create the mask in PS and then import it into FCP and overlay it on the video with the text i’m trying to conceal. I already created the textless still image of the video in PS as per Mark’s explanation, it’s perfect, only issue now, is creating transparency over the text so that the textless underlayer that i created shows through. Again, not sure how to create this garbage matte in FCP nor how to integrate a custom mask from PS, if anyone knows. It’s so simple what i’m trying to do but i’m stuck in trying to do it.

[Raju Bhai]

Dave,

I am using FCP7 with Yosemite. It works perfectly fine, no hang ups. Unfortunately though, Motion 4 doesn’t work at all with Yosemite, so I’m stuck with trying to accomplish this task just within FCP 7.

I don’t know why, but the garbage matte is just not working for me to select around the text, i don’t know if it’s a bug with FCP 7 in yosemite, if so, then that’s the only bug i’ve noticed, everything else has been working.

As a work around, is there a way for me to create a mask overlay in PS and then place that in a video track in FCP7 with the video i’m trying to conceal? If so, anyone know how to go about that?

[Raju Bhai]

Mark, Nick,

Great advice! I followed Mark’s advice and exported a still from FCP and edited out the text in PS. Looks great and i can slip it underneath the video layer. My only issue is this: I need to create a garbage matte, but i don’t know how to do it when i have 3 separate little areas on the clip image i need to mask out. If i create a quick mask in PS, how do i save it in a format i can import into FCP? do i save it as an alpha channel? i don’t know the steps, not sure how to go about this part.

[Raju Bhai]

Thanks Dave, exactly the detail I was looking for! much appreciated

[Raju Bhai]

thanks, much appreciated Shane!

[Raju Bhai]

Perfect, thanks Nick!