multiclips loses sync in reconnection in FCP6 !!!

Try using the media manager to copy the files to the "other drive". Create a new project file in the process which then will be connected to the copies.

Jerry

What format and frame rate are you shooting editing in, and how are you capturing?

There are some issues with the way FCP handles multiclips within the sequence XML.

As an alternative to renaming the drives, you might try saving the project file to the media drive so it has a directly relative path to the media - I know this work when moving DVDSP projects around, but haven't tried it with FCP.

In your first post you stated you were copying (move is the word you used) the media to another drive. It is NOT a work around. It is best practice to use the media manager to do this. It's one of the things it has been designed for. I've never seen a copy process fail doing this, and I do it all the time. A copy of a file less than 20mb is a problem? Maybe I don't understand your workflow?

This isn't a bug in FCP 6, it's cause is coming from the way you are copying the files. It's a problem created by copying QT movies on the desktop... If there's a bug here, it's in the current OS. I've seen QT movies lose their resource forks over and over, and so if you don't use the media manager, it's likely you'll encounter problems.

Jerry

Hi, I have the same problem as Dogllama. I make some tests and the results are that this strange thing do every version of FCP 6. In FCP 5 multiclips works fine, so Jerry, it looks like a bug of FCP 6. And another strange thing is, that sometimes FCP lose sync in multiclips on opening project. That is worst, because you didn't see this. You normaly save project, but with asynchronous multiclips and you have two ways to corect it. Manualy get multiclip to sync by timecode with hand tool (but if you have about 50 multiclips per one episode of serial story, it is very hard) or put your hard work to trash and restore project to the last synchronous copy.

Apple go and do something with that please.

I'm working with multiclips for the first time. I captured to a personal external drive and created the multiclips. Later I copied the media to another drive and opened the project at work. The multiclips were out of sync. All in FCP 6. I will try copying with the media manager to see if that clears it up.

You have not moved the media in the process?

If not, post the format shot, and the process to repeat the error.

If you want a fix, it has to be repeatable...

Since FCP 6 was released I've worked 3 times with multiclips, didn't move media in any case. I never saw a problem with sync... If there is a bug in 6, then it has to be repeatable.

Jerry

sorry, I don't understand your "you have not moved the media in the process?" question.
The bug is repeatable. I have moved the entire capture scratch folder to 2 different drives along with a copy of the project. After opening the project off the new drive and reconnecting the media, the multiclips are out of sync.

Hi Jerry,

yes I didn't move media. Everything I did, I was reconnected multiclips to same media I have captured and the multiclip goes out of sync. I'm using XD CAM HD media imported via sony XD CAM transfer tool. But as I read on this forum, it doesn't matter what format media is, because it isn't work on DV, XDCAM HD and I also tryed to capture media from XD CAM HD via HD SDI input on my decklink card to uncompressed 4:2:2 but with no effect. I have still the same problem. Any ideas to resolve this problem?

Why are you having to reconnect media if you didn't move it from one location to another?

Jerry

Hi Jerry,

and why not? Everything I would like to say is that isn't realy matter, where the media files are located. Indeed I was copied my media to another drive and after their reconnecting I saw this problem. Then I tryed to reconnect original project to original non copied media, but still with the same effect. As many people here, we are using Finalcut to offline cuting and we have to copy our mediafiles to our editors. We can't use media manager because the quantity of media files are realy big and when our editors finish editing, they can't again copy whole media to us. And btw why? We have it already, that isn't profesional workflow. And it is everything about reconnecting, because there is one way when the multiclips are all right in sync. When we name the source drive equal like destination drive, same path, the multiclips will not reconnected and they continued in sync. But this is NOT resolution. Sometimes FinalCut goes mad and some multiclip goes offline or out of sync automaticaly.

So If there is anybody from apple reading this forum, please try this and repair it please.

This is most definitely an issue with FCP6. I've been working on a documentary for the last year or so with the other editor across the country. We have had two sets of media, which were copies not done with media manager. In version 5, we were able to go back and forth between systems without any problems. Now multiclips are always out of sync (except for the active angle, which is odd) on systems other than the system on which the multiclip was created.

Another issue, which may be related, audio tracks with speed changes are no longer in sync when the project is opened in FCP 6.

So don't worry guys, you're not alone.

Yes! I am having this issue as well. I would not shy away from using Media Manager, but I work on two systems constantly throughout production. My assistant is merging clips, as I edit away on another system and drive. I have to be able to work on a sequence and at the end of the day, grab the newly merged clips from my editor. It just doesn't work, if I'm having to recopy the same media over and over to my drive through Media Manager in order to use these clips.

If I were using centralized storage for these two computers, would this be any different?

Are there any solutions from Apple?