Rick Lang
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You and Craig are both right depending on the duration of the source clip or range you have selected. If the source clip range is shorter than the target clip in the Timeline, it will try to fill by extending the source clip if source frames are available and there is no ripple.
According to Help:
Note: In the case of Replace from Start and Replace from End, if the source clip selection is a range selection with a shorter duration than that of the target clip and there is sufficient extra media, Final Cut Pro extends the duration of the source selection to match the target clip duration. The resulting storyline duration does not change.But if that condition is not met, there can be a ripple, whether the replace is made by dragging and selecting from the pop-up or via keyboard shortcuts.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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This can be confusing until you gain experience using FCP X. From the FCP X Help file glossary:
Timeline The bottom portion of the Final Cut Pro window contains the Timeline, where you create your movie project by adding and arranging clips and making all your edits.Event When you import video, audio, and still images, or record directly into Final Cut Pro, the source media files (your raw footage) are stored in Events. An Event is similar to a folder that can hold dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of video clips, audio clips, and still images. Each Event in the Event Library refers to a folder on your hard disk that contains the original source media files, any render files related to your media, and a database file that keeps track of where everything is.
project A project provides a record of your editing decisions and the media you use. You build your project by adding clips and editing them in the Timeline. A project is also defined by its video, audio, and render properties. In most cases, Final Cut Pro manages project settings automatically based on the properties of the first clip you add to a project.
Project Library The Project Library contains all of the Final Cut Pro projects on your hard disk and on any connected external drives.
project properties A project’s default Event as well as the project’s video, audio, and render properties. In most cases, Final Cut Pro manages project’s properties automatically based on the properties of the first clip you add to a project. If you must modify the project properties, choose video and audio project properties based on how you intend to share your final movie with your audience. You set a project’s properties when you create a Final Cut Pro project, and you can change them at any time.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Mitch, you made the right choice at the time. Although the ATI HD 2600 XT (used in the 2008 Mac Pro) and ATI HD 2600 PRO (used in the 2008 iMacs) cards support the minimum VRAM requirements, they do not support OpenCL.
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT4664
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Roger, I believe memory is fairly inexpensive now and it may help your overall performance if your Macbook was running with 8 GB memory instead of 4 GB. It still sounds like FCP X has some areas where it either can’t keep up with something that is contending for the CPU or there may be a bug somewhere that’s causing the temporary stumbles. Regardless more memory will likely reduce the chance of this happening.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Timothy, thanks for the link; I’m sure I (and others) will find this useful.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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And with “Show Detailed Trimming Feedback” enabled, you’ll have a clear view at the edit point in the Viewer. You just will not have the effortless view of left clip frames after and right clip frames before the edit point. Still workable of course.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Thanks. I suspect you are right about the edits being retained. From the Help:
“Adjust the edit point between clips with the Precision Editor
Choose either the Select tool or the Trim tool from the Tools pop-up menu in the toolbar, and double-click the edit point you want to trim in the Timeline.”I thought someone was being lazy with all the references to “Timeline” instead of Primary or Secondary Storyline, but maybe that’s the subtle distinction that let’s us know a function can apply to anything that is Open in the Timeline, where of course a compound clip from a secondary storyline or the Event library appears as if it were the Primary Storyline in a sense.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Until precision edits are allowed in the secondary storyline, I wonder if a cheat makes any sense. Temporarily move the series of clips you want to edit in detail to the primary storyline, perform the detailed edits, then move them back to the secondary storyline?
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Nick, even before the first update of FCP X, the update of the OS to Lion to be released perhaps within a few days may also bring improvements to performance for FCP X. I recall that this was a possibility but not sure of the details. It’s mentioned in the comments to Philip Hodgetts’ article: What are the Answers to the Unanswered Questions about Final Cut Pro X? Would be good news if that’s all it takes!
Interestingly as an aside, while typing this note, the characters on the screen were taking forever to appear. I quit about a dozen other programs and about eight Tabs in my Safari window and everything is normal again. Sometimes there are strange behaviours that are hard to explain! I’ve been applying various application updates supposedly to prepare for Lion, so maybe that’s part of the explanation.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Mark and David, your machines certainly are within the limits of what is recommended for FCP X but it may be that the media needs to be converted. What codec are you running? For example, did you convert your media to Apple ProRes 422? or 422 HQ?
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB