[Richard Haber]

Back to the office. I tried to right-click on the clip and “Open in Timeline,”, but the result is the same.
The workaround presented in the webinar works like a charm, that’s what I was looking for.
Thanks!

[Richard Haber]

Hey Payton,

Havent tried that yet, I’m out of my office until Monday. However, I watched the begining of the video you recommended, and that was DEAD ON TARGET.
Here is his workaround.
When importing the first reel, FCPX treats the spanning clips separately. Then, when you import the second reel, FCPX understands that’s a spanning clip and, having kept in memory previous clips information, it treats all the split and spanning clips as one, merging them all. However, if you dont want this, you have to make FCPX “forget” about prevoius clips, i. e., you have to flush FCPX memory. To flush the FCPX memory, all you have to do is to restart it.
So, you import the first reel, restart FCPX, import the second reel, restart FCPX, import the third reel, and so on. In this way, you’ll end up will several different clips which can be seamlessly stitched together into one single long shot in your timeline.

Thanks a lot!!!

Ps: i’ m gonna watch the rest of the webinar, seems to be pretty interesting and useful.

[Richard Haber]

Hey Payton,

First of all, thanks a lot for taking your time to help me out.
I’m gonna buy and watch that webinar still today.
I tried to put the clip into the timeline and it shows just one clip. I also chose to reveal the clip in the finder and, again, the clip is just one piece.
Well, let’s watch the webinar.