"Break apart clip items" greyed out on one of compound clips I have on my timeline.

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"Break apart clip items" greyed out on one of compound clips I have on my timeline.

Break apart clip items greyed out on one of compound clips I have on my timeline. When I expand audio components, the clip names are incorrect (the name I have given to the compound clip x3). When I double click on the compound clip, I can see the correct file names of the compound clip components, but there is no way to break them apart so that they retain their original file names. Is there a fix to this bug?

I have not manipulated the clip other than usual, colour and letterbox.

I've just broken apart another 10 clips on the same timeline OK. The option for others was not greyed out.

Anyone else experienced this issue and knows a fix?

Posted on Sep 21, 2019 3:37 AM

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Answer 1

Li Mi Ni Author

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Sep 21, 2019 7:44 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

They look the same, yeah.. I've lined one on top of each other on the timeline, it illustrates the difference in length. The top one is copied from a timeline where it was just retimed once, from 100 to 70%. Bottom one was retimed from 100 to 70, then to 100 again so that I can break apart clip items, then back to 70 again (length stayed the same, at 100%, which is incorrect)..

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Li Mi Ni Author

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Sep 21, 2019 4:41 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

Hi Tom. Nope, this is the timeline, I've managed to separate audio from video.

P. S. I think I found what's causing the issue. It's the retimes. Clips that give me issues breaking apart have been retimed to 70 and 120%. If I retime them back to normal and break them apart, it works.

However, new issue arises. When I retime the clips back to 70 % again, they no longer occupy the same amount of space on the timeline. So the edit is off.. But I need it to match what it was previously. How comes the retime doesn't work in the same way it initially did?

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Li Mi Ni Author

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Sep 21, 2019 5:19 AM in response to Li Mi Ni

70% to 100% to 70% goes from occupying 20 sec (at 70%) to 14 sec (at 100%) to 14 sec (at 100%). So essentially, it stays the same length as normal, non-retimed clip would have been. I've tried copy pasting the same clip from duplicate timeline and manipulating that - same result.

Colour grade has already been done, this export is for the sound mix. All clips need to match to the timeline colour grade has been done with..

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Tom Wolsky

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Sep 21, 2019 10:40 AM in response to Li Mi Ni

Changing Ripple only changes the retime process, it will not alter the speed or the duration after the fact. With Ripple checked on the process works correctly for me. I can't produce an instance in which it doesn't. Perhaps it's something specific to the project and the media, though I can't see why.

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Li Mi Ni Author

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Sep 21, 2019 10:49 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

No idea... Both clips are exactly the same length when set to normal speed, both have exactly the same speed settings selected, and yet one ends up 6 seconds shorted than the other at 70% speed. In fact, I've tried it with other clips on the timeline. First time speed is reset to slow- play time increases, but if I set it back to normal speed and then set again to slow- clip length stays the same as normal. This is very odd.

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