Compound Clip with Effects Storyline Issue

I've made a compound of my edit so I can add a film grain effect across the whole cut. (I find this much easier if need to change rather than on individual clips). But after adding the grain, I'm getting a weird overlay on the transitions from black—see attached image. I swear I've done this before without issue. If I put the effect onto each clip (inside the compound), I don't get the "buzz." It's a little hard to see, but if you look in the blacks, you'll see the grain noise. Any ideas?
Here's the line. Grain is added to the compound clip.

OK - I think I fixed it - I had a title connected to the compound clip that for some reason seemed to interfere, but after taking it away and then back, it's fixed now.

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Hi all - FCPX convert here loving most apsects of the app.
Little issue - I would expect that if you douple click a compund clip it should open with the playhead at the point wher you double clicked to open it - or at least at the point where the playhead is in the Primary storyline. Aparently it doesn't - instead it remembers where you were last time you were inside the compound clip and you have to find the bit you ouble clicked on (if that maeks sense).
Is there anyway arrive inside a compound clip at the point where I i am in the primary storyline? It's a litte tedious having to refind my spot each time.

I find it annoying too!
Here's a little bit of weirdness for you...
Compound clips... they can only be expanded as far as the clip content length they contain. If you have a 15 sec clip trimmed to 10 seconds on the storyline -- make a compound clip of that -- then you can only expand the compound clip to 10 seconds and no further. [You can expand the original clip inside the compound, and dragging the compound trim out will reflect the new length (just for completeness)].
What does that mean?
Trim the compound clip from the end to your playhead (snapping on makes this easier). Open the compound clip. There is an out point marker where you trimmed the compound clip on the storyline level -- it's easy to see and right on target. You can do anything in the compound clip to all of the original media -- you are not limited by the out point play range -- if the original length of the compound is important, then just make sure you don't add any content (connected clips, etc.) that go beyond your existing media that's already contained in the compound.
Back on the storylline - drag the compound clip all the way out again.
If you don't want to go into a trimmed compound... trim the clip from the back to the playhead anyway. There is a black tag with two pieces of information:
1) the length of the media from the beginning of the clip to the trim and
2) the offset of the trim
type command - z to undo
In the compound:
you can use the length data to find your playhead point and inside the compound (which usually starts at 0:00) you can go straight to the time using the playhead clock (click directly on the clock or type Control - P and then type in the time you got from the trim operation - type Return or Enter.) That will place the playhead exactly where you need it.

Best way to export clips with effects, like project manager

First of all I would like to say hello to everybody, cause this is my first post, thanks in advance for your help.
The problem:
I'm running adobe premiere pro cs06 on a mac and what I want to do seems simple but is very difficult. I import material from an Alexa camera, putting all the clips to the timeline and add some effects to the clips, too.
Now I want to export all changed clips with the same codec, filename and timecode, just like I can do, when I use the project manager to consolidate my files.
So the goal is an easy way to add effects and export same as source?!
Again thank you very much
Cheers
Bird

Thank you for your answers so far,
First I dont want to export to the arriraw format, what I want to export to is prores444. The reason why is simply because there are some effekts that might speed up my workflow, let me explain:
Most jobs I do the following, I work as a DIT and colorcorrect footage from lots of cameras on set and export them to any kind of codec using davinci resolve.
The most time consuming progess is the neutralizing of all the different camera models..
With plugins like re:match from re:vision it could save me some time, due to its good auto correction, which would give me a good starting point for my further colorcorrection.
But in order to be faster than my normal way, I need to have some auto or same as source export funktion. Although when the clips match the original metadata I will have no problems in the later stages of my workflow.

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I moved a fcp7 project to fcpx using 7 to X. Nested sequences were created as compound clips in fcpx, but they looked a bit different from the compound clips, they had no sequence symbol next to the name. Also, double clicking them did not open them, but I could open them by right clicking and using open in timeline command. One of the compound clips did not show any video, but if i did "open in timeline" command it would open the correct video, but with hash tag lines.
One of the compound clips did not show any video, but if i did "open in timeline" command it would open the correct video, but with hash tag lines.
is there an explanation for this? Thanks

The hash lines usually indicate portions of a nested sequence that are outside the portion used inside a sequence in the legacy version.

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It is a title sequence that I want to reuse in several places. The layering requires the dissolve to be in the compound clip itself. I can probably rebuild it in Motion, but I was hoping to get this to work.

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TImecode shouldn't matter. FCP doesn't use it. Have you tried the sync function?
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Project not showing full frame in a compound clip

Hi Folk;
I am finishing my first project in FCPX (10.0.9) . Overall everything went very well.
I had another editor start the project on another computer.
I copied the event to my iMac and continued the edit. No problems until I exported the project for the client review.
I have a compound clip with mixed footage and a storyline and connected clips that I have used in a project with several compound clips.
I can play this particular compound clip fine and all the video displays fine. (see picture #2)
I lay the this Compound clip into the project and I get less than full frame out in my "storyline" elements - especially after the orange render bar disappears -
I sent the client a version with the "drop out" video (see first pix below where image does not reveal full frame ) and have spent a few hours looking for a cause for my issue. I am wondering if I am the only one dealing with this.
I have created a work around - exported the compound clip and reimport it as a full clip and layed it into the timeline.
The setting for the compound clip are XDCAM sony and the footage that is at issue is AVCHD from a panasonic.
I have several events providing footage for the compound clip
The project has seveal compound clips from different events
The event folder I created seems to be where the issue lives. or maybe the render -
I am using orginal footage not proxies.
I want to avoid this in the future so any insight is helpful.
I feel I have made a mess of my first project and want to clean up any bad habit that may be causing my problem.
Thanks for the opportunity to diagnos this.
I am sure this is as clear as mud.
Cheers!

when you first create a new project, FCPX *can* be set to accept "Automatic Settings" -- basically, it will take the properties of the first clip dropped in the storyline. This can be very convenient if you know the media will be all the same, or you know how to manipulate the "first drop".
If you know the format you want your project to be, it's better to set that up manually when you start a new project (Advanced Options). When you apply your media to the storyline, FCPX will conform the media to the project settings. It doesn't always work perfectly (due to custom or proprietary differences in file formats for the containers holding the media.) For instance, one of my older (SD) camcorders produces "Samsung AVC" (from Get Info on the file) and FCPX simply will not recognize the anamorphic footage.
Anyway, so, yes, I would suspect the 1440x1020 footage might be problematic. (Are you sure it's 1020?? or did you mistype? If it's actually 1080, it still might be giving you problems. All of my 1440 footage requires manually adjusting the width by 133.33%).
You can force a change for your project by clicking going out into the Project Library and with your project selected, you should see a wrench icon at the bottom right of the inspector. Click that and adjust your project settings (you cannot change the frame rate once a project is started, but you can change just about everything else.) Once you get the format set up (and you go back into your project), then you'll know which clips will need to be adjusted. If you have footage that won't fit the frame, you will probably need to go into the video tab > Transform, turn down the Scale disclosure triangle and adjust the X scale (usually) and Y scale (only if necessary.) If the footage you need to conform is SD, there is an Anamorphic Override option available in Info > Settings.
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HTH

How do I move a compound clip from time line to an event in event library

How do I move a compound clip made in the time line into the event library to store it for latter use?

With *no other* clips selected, you can create a New Compound Clip (right click and select from popup) in the Event browser; Copy the compound clip in the storyline; double click new empty compound clip to open it in its own timeline and paste the copied compound clip. When you go back to the storyline, the compound clip in the Event browser is updated with the newly pasted compound clip item. If you want to uncompound the stored clips, when in the New compound's timeline, right click on the pasted compound and select Break Apart Clip Items... The only problem you run into if you break items apart is if you have Effects applied to the storyline compound clip, you will lose those effects because the "new" compound in the Event browser will not have those effects and you can't copy/paste effects back into the Event browser, only items in a timeline.
HTH

Making compound clip adds unwanted black between clips

I have a 2 minute psa that was shot in HD on the NX5 and edited on FCPX. I needed to put it together with other PSAs to make a longer show so I selected all the clips on the timeline and made a ‘compound clip’. The compound clip looks like one clip on the timeline and it should be able to be copied to another timeline. When I watched it back though, FCPX had introduced flash frames of black in between all of the cuts on the timeline, throwing all of the titles out of whack as well. Why did this happen?
1. Original Storyline
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3. When I play it back I get flash frames in-between each clip so i checked the compound clip and found that it introduced black between each clip.

I ran into this problem too and found a quick solution that may work for anyone who encounters this bug.
THE PROBLEM: In one of my Projects, when creating a compound clip of the entire Project (so that I could apply Project-wide color and audio correction), gaps were inexplicably added to certain cuts. I don't know why. I first tried to work around this by exporting a Master File, but this also created the same gaps. Ugh.
THE SOLUTION: Duplicate your Project and in the duplicate, select all and create a compound clip. After creating the compound clip, double-click the compound clip in the Event Browser. This will open the compound clip, with all its bits and pieces exposed, in the Timeline. Go to the bottom-left corner of the Timeline and click the little button there to open the Timeline Index. Do a search for "gap". Select all the results in the list and press the delete key.
NOTE: Don't forget to duplicate your original Project (before creating a compound clip with the duplicate) so that you have it as a reference and a backup in case something goes wrong. I have not carefully analyzed this glitch and am not 100% sure this workaround is bulletproof. I also am not sure what is causing the OP's titles to be "thrown out of whack" as I didn't have that particular issue, so this "fix" may not actually fix that part of the problem.

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Is there anyway to get final cut to use the new compound clips (with good sound) in place of the originals which are in the FCPX storyline?
If I can't think of an elegant solution to this, I figured I would try making copies of the original camera footage, opening them in Soundtrack Pro. Do the sync there, then export the footage and swap them out with the project files that Final Cut is using. Hopefully FC won't notice...!

Well, sneaking the altered files into the project folder using the Finder didn't work. Final Cut "knew" that the file had been changed and the clip showed up in the storyline with a yellow triangle with an exclaimation point in it. Replacing the bogus copy with a copy of the original file fixed things.
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All additional audio tracks in synchronized or compound clips are merged into the mono-mix.

Hi all.
I have a video with a stereo track and six separate audio tracks from set. I synced them. If you open the synchronized clip in a separate timeline, all audio tracks are on place and have their names. But if I append it to the storyline and expand audio components, there are only two audio tracks: monomix from the original video with its name and one stereo track named "a1", which is a mix of all additional audio tracks. The same thing happens if I make a compound clip, with a small difference. It forced me to give up the work I wanted to do.
Screenshots:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/frvgk3d1hjbo6s6/Y3AWxAirnn
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Multicam works, but it is not very convenient. I can not use Sync-N-Link as I had planned, I get problems with export AAF and DaVinci do not like multicam in XML.
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I have created a timeline to burn a DVD/Blu-Ray. The timeline contains 3 compound clips. Each compound clip contains roughly 25 chapter markers.
When I open the Share > DVD dialog, it shows the Chapter button in the preview, but the DVD itself doesn't have the chapter markers.
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Actual Result: The DVD does not contain the chapters button, nor do the chapter skip buttons do anything. It's as if the chapters were never defined.
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Thanks for the tip. I was looking for this feature, but it was not included in the context menu. It can be found in the "Clip" menu.
I think the best workflow for me would be this:
Edit in a master timeline
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Create a new project, add the compount clip
Add the chapter markers to the new project
Select everything in the new project, create a second compound clip.This makes the chapter markers portable.
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Thanks for taking the time to answer my question!
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Hi. I created a compound clip, which for some reason ended up with settings of 1080P 60fps (probably because I added a music track first before any video and just used the automatic settings). After editing a whole sequence and exporting a master file, I realized the settings had been wrong. All my footage is 1080i 25fps.
Only thing is when I tried to change the compound clip settings, I only had other progressive options available. I could not change it to 1080i.
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Why could I not change the CC settings directly?
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