[Ron Craig]

I agree. I am a complete FCP devotee but I have to say that I think Vegas on the PC is about the most underrated editing program there is. It does a lot of things wonderfully. Here’s one thing it does that puts it years ahead of FCP in one regard:

In Vegas when you do an audio fade/dissolve you can choose from five or six different types of fade curves. That might sound like overkill but there have been times when the choice of one of those particular curves created just the right audio effect for me. Also, a fade handle is built into every clip on the timeline. Just drag from a corner to pull the fade out of the clip end. Or beginning. Very intuitive; very easy; very good style of editing.

I’m still an FCP guy but I would love to see this Vegas feature implemented in FCP.

[Ron Craig]

Yeah, they don’t do much in the timeline I suppose But once in a while when I have to move quickly through a long timeline they tell with a quick look where I am. Thanks for your note. Now I won’t waste any more time trying to figure out a rather meaningless thing!

[Ron Craig]

Grotty? You must be from Oz, eh?

[Ron Craig]

Thanks!

I promise to be better. I used to use normalize a lot with voicetrack through hardware devices in analog editing. Haven’t used that function in FCP yet. But I will now.

Thanks for the advice. (And thanks even for the slaps to my hand from others!)

[Ron Craig]

Jeez, this is embarrassing. Thank you, Mark, for responding but I hang my head in shame that I still don’t get it. (I’m really not stupid! Just uninformed.) I can easily copy Tracks 1 & 2 together, as you suggest. (Those tracks hold linked audio clips so clicking on one highlights both, of course.) But I don’t know how to highlight tracks 3 & 4. I only know how to highlight one track at a time. I tried several things but none worked. Do you mind getting more elementary for me?

By the way, just to be specific, what I am trying to do is not just to copy-and-paste clips with existing track attributes (mainly volume keyframes) but, rather, to have all four tracks linked such that adding a new volume keyframe to the clip on one track adds that keyframe to all four. Does your method allow me to do that?

Thanks again.

[Ron Craig]

I believe the answer to that is no, unfortunately. My understanding is that Favorites are part of the Preferences files, which is one reason it’s good to have a set of “good” preferences backed up somewhere. If you have a backup set or you use FCP Rescue, install those and I believe you’ll see your favorites re-appear.

[Ron Craig]

Hi Jeff,

Yes, actually I did understand that. I can’t find anything else that works so I tried linking. Obviously, it’s not the answer.

Can what I’m trying to do be done?

[Ron Craig]

This works:

1. Quit FCP.
2. Open your System Drive.
3. Set to Column View.
4. Follow the path: Users > Name > Library > Preferences.
5. In the Preferences Pane look for “com.apple.FinalCutPro.plist”. Drag the FCP plist to the Trash.
6. In the same Preference Pane, look for the Final Cut Pro User Data Folder.
7. From inside the Data Folder, drag ‘Final Cut Pro (v) Prefs’, ‘Final Cut Pro Obj Cache’ and ‘Final Cut Pro Prof Cache’, all three shown below in green, to the Trash.
8. Do NOT empty the Trash.
9. Launch FCP and check all your settings. All FCP setting will have reverted to default. Don’t forget to reset your Scratch Disk settings.
10. Once FCP is up and running, empty the Trash.

[Ron Craig]

Thanks Dave,

I just downloaded that file and will see if it can help me.

[Ron Craig]

OK…and not to drag this string on forever…

Are you working in high def? And in FCP 6 and AE CS3?

Thanks