[Shea Comfort]

Thank you,

Just to be clear on the specs, this is shot on a panasonic HCX 1000, and brought into FCPX (where it is “optimized”). The single added audio file is only AIFF. Before adding the audio file to a single video clip and making it a compound clip, everything plays and is editable without lagging and losing frames. Only when made into a compound clip do things bog down…

Thank you for your help.

~Shea

[Shea Comfort]

Thank you for the response. I will try Proxy mode.

So, just for learning: there should be nothing wrong with adding a second audio track, then making the original clip and the new audio into a compound clip and using that? I figured this was the best way to make sure audio and video edits stayed together. Obviously, I know there is the way to create a synced audio clip, but when this does not work… How does a manually made compound clip (adding an audio track to a video clip and making it a compound clip in the timeline), and an officially made synced audio clip (made in the browser, then dropped to the timeline) differ? Is one way better?

Thank you for any insights.

~Shea

[Shea Comfort]

Thanks everyone for the replies.

Not sure about other formats, but I am using a panasonic HC-X1000, and they are in .MOV format. I can only import the whole media file from the HD back-up, not select a portion that I actually want. Which sucks, because one of the files is really long because a camera was left running at the end of the concert… 20 min of useless footage.

I wiped the card after backing-up to the HD, so I can’t test to see if from the card I can select a portion of the file to import. Classique. However, even if that works, I believe the best way to avoid problems is to always save to a back-up HD, then import the media from there. So even if that works, it is not a good way to do it.

Seems that this would be a basic feature in FCPX? Unpleasantly surprised at this.

Oh well.

~Shea