Duplicate clips in my footage bin

I'm doing the Premiere Pro CC Eagle Doc. tutorial. After completing it, I started cutting a new sequence using the same clips. However, for some reason, the clips I used in the second sequence were duplicated in
the footage bin. When I tried to delete them, I got a message saying that I was deleting clip references (see attachments). In addition, when I did delete two clips from the footage bin, they also vanished from the second sequence.
Why is it necessary for PP to create duplicate clips in the bin for a new sequence? It only leads to clutter and confusion in the bin. Is there a way to prevent this?

I've not seen that when duplicating a sequence, but I have seen it when importing a sequence or a project into a new project. Did you maybe duplicate the project and then paste in or import the old sequence instead of just duplicating the sequence within the same project?
The reason for importing all the media into the new project is so that the media associated with the imported sequence is accessible in the new project, which makes sense. If the media is not actually used somewhere in an open sequence, you can delete it without being warned that the media will be removed from a timeline.
Of course, bugs do still happen, so, as a test, could you select just the sequence in the project panel, right click it and select 'duplicate' and see if you get three sets of media?

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Suppose I have one duplicate clip that I have copied into two bins, like so:
-- Sunday's clips bin
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and
-- Flowers bin
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If I change the name of one, I expect it to change the name of the other also, since it is the same clip, just placed in two different places (not two separate files). Instead it only changes in one place, like so:
-- Sunday's clips bin
          - clip_name_one
and
-- Flowers bin
          - clip_name_one_tulip
Is this intentional behavior? I can't imagine how confusing this will be for logging when I make duplicates in multiple places for organizational purposes. I may even end up with the same clip with multiple names. The same is true for the metadata associated with the clip - if I add a comment in the comment field, it does not propogate. Markers, however, DO propogate to both, which is exactly as I would expect. Why not the metadata?
Is there a way around this (short of never duplicating clips)?

I agree, Premiere Pro is a bit weird in what it does and doesn't carry across duplicate clips. For instance, you can interpret the frame rate for a duplicate different than the other version of it. But if you go to timecode and enter a changed start timecode it effects both instances. I get why you would want to sync both name and metadata, but I also see benefits to not syncing it. Either way, I agree the option should be there. There also should be an option like fcp7 has, to rename a clip based on file name, or rename a file name based on clip name (but there isn't).
That said, instead of creating duplicates of the clip in different organizational bins, you could create custom metadata columns. Therefore creating sort of a virtual bin.
You could do that by going to the top right of the project panel and clicking on the little down arrow. Then go to metadata display (while in list view). Then you can click on Add Property in the Premiere Pro Project Metadata area. Then you could do a custom property, decide whether you want integer, real, text or boolean. You'd probably want text. So you could choose text and name it Flower. Then you could hit ok. Go back to list view, and type in flower
Then in your project panel search box, type in flower and find all clips using it. A work around for sure, but may achieve what you want.
P.S. It would be much better if you could create a boolean field and just search by the word flower and everything checked would come up in the search. Unfortunately the search is a bit stupid when it comes to this. So if you search flower with a bloolean field, nothing will come up! You have to search true or false, and then ANY checked box will show. Quite dumb! Definite feature request!

Browser Problem - Displaying duplicate clips

The browser is displaying duplicates of imported footage, one right on top of the other.
The only way to select the clip is to click beneath it. The marque selection does not work either, it just randomly selects some clips when i click and drag. To select multiple clips, i must shift select each clip, kid of a pain when we trying to log over a 1000 clips today.
Any thoughts? I have tried to display the browser as thumbnails and the it displays it correctly. But when I go back to list view, it shows the same clips duplicated again. When i select a clip and drag it to the timeline, it brings in two of the same clips.
I am running leopard, and using the XDCAM transfer tool from Sony, with a PDW-EX1

Thanks for the replies. It is good to know I am not alone. I think it may be a os 10.5 thing working with Sony's transfer tool. 10.5.2 hopefully will solve all our problems, and give us more problems in return... Oh well.
Solutions:
1.) Deleting the clips and reimporting them. This would work, but since there are no tapes as backup, we have been nervious about missing clips from moving or forgetting to reimport them.
2.) As the clips are importing, move them to bins and out of the main project director within FCP. It seems weird, but the only time the duplicates seem to show up is when there are more than about 15 in the main directory. If you organize them into bins while they are importing, it seems to not be an issue.
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Ghost duplicate clip icons

Morning...
Duplicates of some of my clips have appeared in the browser which i cannot select.
Trashed prefs to no avail. Then deleted clips from browser and re-imported which seems to have cured it.
Has anyone seen this? Is it a problem with my media or my project which might resurface?
Working on OSX 10.4.11 FCP 6.0.5 with Blackmagic Multibridge Pro and 8-bit Uncompressed PAL footage on a seemingly healthy fibrenetix RAID.
Any ideas
Thanks
Tall Jim

I've never seen this behavior, but would venture to guess it's a corrupt project file. I'd make a new one, and import the footage into it myself...
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1 Make sure your HDV camcorder is properly connected to your computer and turned on
before you open Final Cut Pro.
2 Insert a DV tape into the HDV camcorder.
3 Click anywhere in the Timeline or Canvas to make it the active window.
4 Choose File > Print to Video (or press Control-M).
The Print to Video dialog appears.
5 If you want Final Cut Pro to start recording automatically, select the Automatically
Start Recording checkbox.
6 Select any Leader or Trailer elements you want to include on your tape, as well as start,
end, and looping options. A progress bar shows the progress of encoding from the Apple Intermediate Codec back to MPEG-2 HDV and gives you a time estimate for when the encoding process will finish. A dialog appears instructing you to press the record button on the camcorder.
7 Press the record button on your camcorder, then click OK. If you selected the Automatically Start Recording option, the camcorder automatically begins recording your program to tape. The camcorder stops after the program is recorded to tape.
More info here: FCP menu bar > Help > About HD and Broadcast Formats. (where the above is copy/pasted from)

How to compile multiple video clips in a storage bin for future projects?

I want to stock pile all of my favorite selected video snippets into bins where I can easily access them at will. I don't want the hundreds of optional video snippets clogging up the project I am working on at hand. Is there a way where I can choose and drag my favorite selected video snippets from a separate window into a new project?
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You can mark certain video frames in events as favorites. Then when you bring up an event, you can select to only see the favorites. Use the Favorites tool. [Here is a good video tutorial|http://www.apple.com/findouthow/movies/#mark]
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Editing clip changes entire footage

Moved captured video from browser window into viewer window, set my "In" and "Out" points, moved the selected clip to the timeline and tried to edit that one clip w- brightness & contrast (even made it an "independent clip", renamed it, and even copied it back into the browser window ----- trying different solutions); however, whatever method I try in order to edit just that one clip, the edit effects the entire footage the clip came from originally. What is the proper method to edit a single clip for or in the timeline without effecting the "mother-clip" (which needs no editing)? Thank you. ----- TMP-MAC

I tried applying the effect to the clip in the timeline (as the Apple tutorial said to do) then double-clicking the clip to make adjustments in the effects-tab window of the viewer. I also tried just double-clicking a clip into the viewer then adding effects by way of the toolbar at the top of the screen (and selecting my chosen video effect). I saw my changes, but everytime I place a clip (with any method, such as double-clicking it) back into the viewer window for editing, it shows the entire original clip again with the "In" & "Out" points around my selected clip, and the effects / changes get applied to all of the footage in the viewer window both inside and outside of the "In" & "Out" points. Also, even though the selected clip did get adjusted by the applied effects, when I made a freeze-frame image from the effected clip, it had to re-apply the same effects to the image (it had the original appearance to it, as it no effects applied). Why would FCE not make a freeze-frame image and include the effects of that clip (if I may add a relative question here)?

Remove duplicate clips through array

I'm using beneath code to two areas of clips. On the left 10 clips consisting of 2 columns and 5 rows. On the right the exact duplicate. It starts of with clip 1 on the left, than it's duplicate on the right, then clip 2 on the left, than it's duplicate on the right etc. Until both left and right have the exact same 10 clips in the same order.
Now I've added an event listener. The way I would like it to work is when I click e.g. clip 4 on the left, not only that clip should be removed, but also it's counterpart clip 4 on the right. And the same the other way: clicking clip 4 on the right should remove both the right clip 4 as the left clip 4.
The way I've got it working now is only when clicking clips on the left. That removes that clip and the clip on the right. I'm using the indexOf array way for that. By deleting the clip on that indexOf location, which would be a left clip and the clip on the right by adding 1 to that indexOf. Since in the array the right clip (duplicate) immediately follows the left (original) clip.
Of course that doesn't work the other way, when I click a right clip first. Since I then would have to subtract 1 of the indexOf location to get to the left clip version. But I can't think of a way to determine whether the clip clicked on is on the right area or the left. I've commented that second removeChild line since that doesn't work when clicking on a right clip.
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If I've understood your code correctly, clips on the left will have even numbered indexes or 0 as their index. Clips on the right will have odd numbered indexes. I would try:
var clipcopies:Array = new Array();
for (var rows:uint=0; rows <5; rows++)
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                    for (var cops:uint=0; cops <2; cops++)
                              var persona:clips = new clips();
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                              persona.y = (rows * (persona.height+20) + 10);
                              persona.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,clickPersona );
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function clickPersona(e:MouseEvent):void
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          }else{ // then thisclip is an even uint - ie clip is on theleft
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Clip plays wrong footage

I previously posted this in after affects forum, but i don't think that's where the problem is.
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Fuzzy - glad to hear from you on this, as you were familiar with the issue - and i had forgotten about the
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Hope someone can help with this question:
To summarize: I need to combine three video clips + the Text above + the music below + the chapter marker to use multiple times in my movie
The long one: Each chapter in my movie has a set intro (it's a holiday one, broken into Phuket, Bangkok and Isaan):
It's a 15 second intro with a bit of music and text:
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+I'm trying to *copy/duplicate uncaptured clips and just change the reel setting*.+
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