Final Cut Pro 6 combining clips?

Can someone please help me with this... I am working with many small clips in a sequence and cant figure out how to somehow join them into one big clip so i can change the speed of the (combined clips into one). I was reading the manual and all I could find was "through edit" and that did not solve my problem. It is very similar to what i am looking to do but I need to take clips in the timeline and change the effects or speed on them as a whole. If anyone can help I would really appreciate it. Cheers

Or you can butt them together in the sequence, export the sequence as QT/Current Settings/audio and video/self contained.
Then reimport the export movie and apply the time changes

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Hello,
I'm using fcp 4.5 on a PowerMac 1.8gh.
So I've just lost a hard drive, and I've tried to recapture the media for my project into another drive.
However, the tape is damaged at the beginning, and I am not able to recapture the old clip in its entirety.
Luckily, in the project, my 'sequence' clips are all contained in the material I could recapture.
How do I make the timeline/ sequence clips refer to the recaptured material rather than the original, lost master clip? How do I link them up to the new material and thus bring them back online?
Thanks for your help!! I hope this isn't too obvious.
Best
Richard

You can try this:
1. Close your project AND Final Cut Pro.
2. Move the actual captured clip OUT of the Capture scratch folder on your media drive
3. Open the project.
4. You'll see the media in the browser with the offline thingie over it.
5. Highlight it and Edit>duplicate
6. Give it a new name- append a number to it
7. In the browser, ON THE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL CLIP, click the media start number, and CHANGE it to what you know has good timecode.
8. Open the log and capture window.
9. Highlight the copied clip and hit batch capture, it should default to the highlighted clip.
You should already have the tape in the deck, having found an appropriate place to start your capture. DON'T FORGET TO ALLOW AT LEAST 5 SECONDS FOR PRE-ROLL.
10. Once you have captured the media, it should either repopulate, or if not, select all in the timeline and File>reconnect media. The reconnection window is pretty intuitive. It's a two step process-- first it finds the media, then you hit a reconnect button. Make sure you check the box that says something like reconnect all media in relative path.
If this DOESN'T work, you'll have to eyeball all the clips and do it that way.
Capture now is really not the best way to work for this and other reasons. It should ONLY be used when you've got something horrible like vhs with no timecode. In those cases I ALWAYS dub to something that has code, and always log and capture. Then in two years if a client has changes, all you have to do is recapture the media and you're good to go.
The Bright side: you'll never have this problem again.
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Shane,
Thanks for your response, though I don't really see the need for the condescending tone while offering no useful information. I'm aware that H.264 is not an editing format -- If you had taken the time to read my post more carefully, you would note that I have already transcoded the footage ("and the issue persists even if we transcode to prores 4:4:4 or any other codec. Issue duplicated in FCP 6 and 7"), so your suggestion "Use Compressor to convert it to DV." really doesn't help much. We've done so and the problem persists. Hence the post.
Incidentally, I have transcoded with quicktime player, compressor, and FCP. All preserve the audio drift. Interestingly, Imovie deals with it well, kicking out a file with perfect sync. My instinct is that it's a metadata issue (i.e. FCP is misinterpreting the actual framerate of the video) but I'm looking for any similar experiences out there.
As for "professional" vs. non pro hardware and software, I certainly don't expect the iphone to shoot footage or offer features that are comparable to those of a pro camera. I do expect it to properly encode quicktime files for use with any bug-free quicktime-based tool, of which FCP is the flagship example. Should aperture not be required to handle photos from point and click digitals because they are not "professional?"
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Hi Tom and thank you very much for helping. I know what I'm asking is a bit esoteric.
I already know how to refine the search. Usually what I do is look for any incidences of "boy" on first pass of creating my story All I'm looking for is boy. As I continue to build the video I might look for the boy to do something interesting.
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