Ron James
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The best thing you can do is what I already said, copy your stuff from inside the nest and paste it into a new sequence.
There is absolutely no good reason why you should be jumping in and out of a nest to do your editing. It’s not a good workflow. Nesting is generally for compositing/fx.
The best thing you can do is accept the workflow, not fight it.
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Nesting could be your problem. I personally never use nests unless for a very specific purpose (motion effects, etc). I don’t think you should ever edit sequences within nests, aside from tweaks here and there. I’m not sure if nest updating is still a problem, but in previous versions you would tweak then (this is what I’d do, anyway) yank the opacity slider down and back up again on your Nest, which would force everything to update.
What I would do first off is copy everything inside the nest and paste it into a new, empty sequence, finish all your editing of this sequence *outside* of the nest.
I’m unclear what your purpose is for using the nest?
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Again, I really don’t mean to sound harsh. I do FCP training and am actually the most patient person in the world, but I also encounter too much negative attitude from people who badmouth FCP without really knowing much about it.
Please explain your problem(s) more clearly, b/c I’d honestly like to help you out, if I can.
What do you mean, first, by things coming out different than they should? Do you mean different clips are playing than what’s in your timeline, or you’re getting some kind of artifacting?
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They’ve obviously become very anal about downloading updates, which is their right (though, I don’t think it does a bit of good) but I had no problem downloading the update once.
You should just run software update and install. But you have to choose the install option, you can’t download and install the package. It won’t work.
HTH
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This is why FCP gets such a bad rap, b/c so many people using it don’t have a clue what they’re doing!
I recommend you hire someone ASAP to come in and go through FCP with you and/or get your project out by deadline. Then, learn the software. It’s sophisticated stuff, despite the stupid claims by people who want to sell you things that say “it’s so easy!!” b/c it’s not so easy, as you can see. It’s pretty easy to start bungling things up.
Don’t mean to sound harsh, but how can you come on lashing out about something you clearly don’t know??? It doesn’t make any sense to me.
FCP has been rock solid for me lately, but I’ve been using successfully since version 1 without dramatic episodes.
BTW, locking does indeed lock the track. I’m not sure what you’re doing.
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This method appears to work, Tom. Make sure you back it up, though, b/c Apple only lets you download it once. I wanted to log back in after downloading the package to get one of the other updates and it wouldn’t let me.
As usual, legit users get shafted, while pirated users probably already have a way around this nonsense.
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Oh, sorry Tom, ignore my other post. I didn’t know the package works this way. If it does, I can see how annoying this could be. Sheesh.
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Tom, can’t you just choose the option to download only, or install and keep package via software update and then just transport the package from machine to machine?
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Bret, yeah that makes sense and I thought of doing this but I sure like the generators for easy adjustments. I’ll try this, though and see how it goes.
I guess I meant to say text “roll,” not “crawl.” Sorry about that.
Thanks a lot!
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Tom, thanks for the advice, but I’ve done rolls in PhotoShop and won’t try it again. It was really a pain (for me, anyway) and looked like crap no matter what I did. Might just be the DV25 compression. What really drove me nuts, though, was having to go back to PS everytime I needed to make a change, then digging through the tons of text layers.
There’s got to be a way to do this in FCP.