[T. Payton]

Ah yes. Relinking. Well, the FCP X Manaul does have an entry for this:

Edit a still image with an external image editing application:

https://help.apple.com/finalcutpro/mac/10.0.1/#verfc8a3df7

Now if this actually works is another story 😉

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Well that is a bright and cheery video. 😉

So Im curious how you handled swapping out your effect shots in FCP X. Can you share your workflow?

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

See if this makes sense:

I’ve selected a clip. Notice in the inspecter the roles under info:

Now on the same clip under audio it is set to stereo and opening that clip in the timeline there is one stereo track:

Selecting the clip again in the even browser and changing to dual mono, the timeline now shows two audio tracks:

BTW. I didn’t close the timeline it just automatically expanded:

Now in the timeline select your tracks and in the info window assign the role:

Now in the Event Browser or the info window you can see the multiple audio roles:

So now just use the clip normally and edit away with multiple roles.

Roles are VERY powerful.

Enjoy!

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

If it is actually crashing FCP X, I would give Apple a call.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

It looks like you don’t have to break them apart if the clip audio intelf is assigned to dual mono (or other mono format) in the inspector. Then the audio tracks will be broken apart automatically and from there you can assign each audio track a different roll.

I just did it and it works well. Great idea BTW, I can see lots of uses for this. Can’t wait for FCP X to get a real mixer where roles become channels in the mixer. Then we can gave some very good control over audio.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

I’m not aware of a super clean way of pulling this off, however, here is a quick stab at this:

1 – On your Edit machine, create your “master” even, pull in your media, etc. Now mark all the clips you need to give to your assistant with a keyword like “To Be Keyworded” or TBK. Now move all those to an event on the external drive (you don’t need to move everything just the clips marked TBK.) by selecting the clips themselves (very important) in the Event Browser and dragging them to the even on your external drive. The event on the external drive doesn’t need to have the same name, it will just bring in the keywords as needed.

2 – Give your external drive to the assistant editor. Have him keyword everything and remove the TBK from all the clips. Stress the fact that every clip must have a keyword.

3- When your assistant is done, plug in the external drive and then select all the clips in the event browser and copy them to your “master” event. You’ll notice that it won’t have to actually copy anything to the master event, because the master event already contains the clips.

4-In the master event, select the TBK keyword collection, and then in the event browser command-backspace all the clips to delete them. Don’t worry, you won’t loose anything because you’ll be just removing extra references to the clips as you duplicated them in step 3.

Some other thoughts:
Alternatively, you can setup some master keywords and drag the keyword collection names themselves to an event. This won’t copy the media at all, just he keywords to another event.

You can also have your assistant editors capture footage to external drives using the same technique and then copy them to your master event as needed. All the copying will happen in the background so you can actually start editing as soon as you copy them over to the master event.

BTW. Merging events will do much the same thing as steps 3 but if it were me I would do it manually.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

John – I don’t know if you saw my post. Are you using the Share > YouTube function?

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

This might prove helpful too when dragging content into FCP X.

https://fcp.co/forum/4-final-cut-pro-x-fcpx/1401-quicktip-changing-import-behavior-of-qcopy-files-to-eventq-on-the-fly

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

So to clarify, are you using the “Share > YouTube” function in FCP X?

I believe that you have some frustration, but frankly I have found sharing the YouTube is something that FCP X does unbelievably well. Easily takes just a 1/4 of the time it did in FCP 7.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Actually you can create as many favorites as you like per clip, but they cannot overlap each other. You are doing it right, Just continue to mark in ands outs, then hit F like you are doing.

Favorites are designed to be used to mark an area in a clip which you want to use in your story/project. Typically you would review your footage marking your favorites as you go. Then in the event browser you can choose to only show favorites, control-f, and from there quickly assemble your edit by pulling all the favorites in your timeline. Try it, the workflow is pretty fantastic.

BTW. Multiple favorites is the reasons for the current lack of FCP X remembering your ins and outs on a clip. Because you can have multiple favorites on a clip, if you need to remember your in and out, you would make it a favorite and therefore FCP X doesn’t need to remember your last in an out. Not that I agree with it, but I can see Apple’s point.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque