Make Independent Clip is greyed out

With many of my clips, Make Independent Clip is greyed out, and I can't figure out why. Please help, and thank you!

select a clip in the timeline or the browser and hit command-9 and tell us what codec (also called compressor) , frame rate etc If you're material is not in a fcp friendly format, that may be the problem. I also know that you can only use this command in certain circumstances. Had to do it a week or so ago and it took a little fooling til the option was available.

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Undo "Make Independent Clips" ?? HELP!

Well, I had thought I made some subclips, but instead of clips they were sequences. Not sure how that happened - I did command U, but anyway..
When I was trying to figure out why that happened, I went to "Modify -> Made Independent Clips" thinking maybe that was the culprit.
I realized that wasn't it, and made my subclips from the sub-sequences that were there. So now I have all these subclips (and I deleted all the sub-sequences).
However, I go to look at the subclips and they are all distorted. In the viewer it says that they are scaled up to 225, I don't know why that would happen.. And in the Canvas they are all pixely and the resolution is messed up. When I scale them down to 100, the video is the size of a thumbnail.
I have NO idea what happened, because I'm almost positive that the only thing I did was click "Make independent clips" and then create the subclips.
Can anyone help me fix this?? I wish final cut express had an undo history..

I know FCE has an "undo", every program in existence does. I was referring to an undo history, ie. photoshop, which will tell you what each undo actually undoes.
I also know what "make subclip" does. What I didn't realize was that if you try to make a subclip using cmd-u with in & out points in the timeline it does NOT create a subclip, but in fact creates a sub-sequence. To make the subclip you have to be making the in & out points in the viewer, not the canvas.
When I realized that was what I had done, I created subclips from those sub-sequences, and then deleted the sub-sequences. I had also selected "Make independent clips".
I don't know how or why the frame settings of my clips got changed and scaled, because I obviously would not have scaled them. Maybe it is some quirky setting that is going on, or maybe it has something to do with my making subclips from the sub-sequences that I then deleted. I have no idea.
Thanks for trying to help, but sounds like we're both lost on this. I have 4 sequences in this project so I don't want to risk making anything worse. In addition to the 4 sequences, I have 4 original source files that are each 1 hour long. From those, I made many subclips so I could easily find footage I was looking for. If I now go back and select "Remove Subclip Limits" will this effect every subclip in my project?? I don't know if I can risk that.
I will have to just go back to the original source clip and create new subclips from that, deleting the subclips that became skewed.
Thanks anyway.
Vanessa

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Just started using iMovie and I downloaded a clip from Youtube and converted it to mp4. All I want to do is make it faster but all of the 'clip' options in the top bar are greyed out so I can't use them. Any help?

You need to select a clip from the Event and drag it to the Project Window. Then select the clip. Then those menu items will be active. You can also get them by right-clicking on the clip.

Merge Clips is greyed out

I shot video on Canon 5D, converted to ProRes and imported into FCP 7. Audio was recorded separately on a JVC GY-HM100U (lens shut, so no video footage just sound) and imported into FCP. I've marked in on video and audio clips to merge them, but the merge clips button is greyed out. The clips are in the browser window. I've tried dragging them into the timeline and merging them there. Merge Clips is still greyed out.
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Details: Audio- 48KHz, 16-bit
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Split event before clip is greyed out

I can't split event before a clip and I can't merge because it is greyed out. I am highlighting in the events pane. I am completely updated. I have rebooted. I am using imovie8. I am new to this and thought having a mac was going to be so easy. So far, I have had to troubleshoot just above everything I do before getting ahead. It's getting a little old. Can anyone help?

Oops sorry - I'm new to iMovie, except for a short one I did a couple years back from stills. I only take the occasional one with my p&s camera - so it's mp4's - but now I've got a project I want to do for my son and his band. So, another learning curve
Yes I've been trying to split clips in the events browser. And sometimes the "split event" option come up black, but most times it's greyed out. Sometimes I even get the black and greyed-out in different places within the same event. I can't find any logic behind it, it appears to be random.
I haven't come across anything called "the timeline" - so don't know what that is. I searched it just now in iMovie but nothing came up.

Cannot reverse clip--option greyed out

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I'm new to Final Cut and I'm finding that sometimes certain clips cannot be reversed, the option is greyed out. Why?

Ahh. I think I see now.. If you have done a previous speed transition, it seems that some of the other speed effects become disabled. Thanks!

Making an Independent Clip

I am working with still images and want to take an indivudual clip and convert it into a quicktime so that I can use the TimeReMap and have control over timing and ease in/ease out.
When I click on the clip my "Make Independent Clip" is greyed out. I have seen this done but am not getting it. I could make a new project with this one clip in it and make a QT.
Any suggestions?
~Mark

Okay, then you can do what I suggested in my previous post.
You can either take that clip and put it in a separate sequence to export it out and bring it back in (be sure to use "Current Settings" so you don't adjust the quality with compression), OR you can just set an IN at the beginning of the clip on your timeline (cmd + I) and an OUT an the end (cmd + O) and export it right from there (FCP wil only export whatever is between your In and Out point).
Make sure it's fully rendered before you export it.
Figure that'll work alright for you?

How do I make a clip "independant" in FCP 7.0.3?

I have two imported DV clips.
- One is 45 minutes long
- One is about 15 minutes long
I want to break these two captured files up into "chunks" so I can edit them in the timeline without even referencing the original DV clips.
Reason: editing nightmare I am trying to resolve.
- I know how to use "mark dv start/stop" in each DV clip to segment my DV clips into my original "shots" on DV tape.
- I know how to make "subclips" from the 'segments".
What I don't know how to do is to make these new clips TOTALLY independant of the source footage because my edits are getting completely messed up. Someone suggested I make the new segment clips "independant" clips, but I can't seem to find that option anywhere.
Any suggestions?
thanks

Thank you ALL!
These are some of the best answer I have got so far, but let me run a few things by you and see what you think...
My original, orignal question was something like "How do I import and break up my video so I can edit my shots on the timeline?"
My real goal, as you might guess, is to make FCP do the grunt work so I can get my "shots" from the DV camera into the timeline so I can cut them, move them around, synch them to audio etc. That's why FCP is called a non-linear editor. Right?
I really don't want to have to export and then reimport a bunch of video clips because that's a lot of work for ME. I know that you can do this, and I know how to do it, but come on! I want to make FCP do that work, and theorietically it should be able to do this.
From digging around on the internet, and from asking multiple questions on this forum, here is the workflow I have peiced together. (I am not sure if it will work yet because I still have to test it...)
I think the complete answer is:
1) Capture video to a project (the whole tape)
2) Select the master clip (the whole tape) in the browser and choose "Mark/ DV Start/Stop" (just like you said)
3) Select the resulting video "segments" in the browser and choose "Make Clip" from the modify menu (this converts the original captured segments into subclips)
4) Select the resulting video subclips and drag them to the timeline for editing (I am not sure if I also need to "Remove Clip Limitations" from the subclips as well, but at least I know where to look if my 5 steps don't work)
5) Right click on the video subclips in the timeline and choose "make independant clip"
The bottom line is that I am trying to get FCP to do the grunt work of keeping track of my video ins/outs, segments, subclips and independant clips without me having to manage 100 files on my hard drive in the project folder! The whole point of NLE is to let the computer figure out how to arrange and render all of your stuff based on information that is stored in the FCP file.
Thoughts?

Subclips of Independent Clip all have the SAME audio

I have a bunch of DV streams I want to edit in FCP, but I discovered that the audio is out of sync in most of them. Each stream has multiple shots in it, each of which I want to make into a subclip. Here's how I approached the problem:
1. I gave the out-of-sync DV stream a reel name in the Browser.
2. I opened the clip in the Viewer, set In and Out points to the extremes, and dragged it into the timeline.
3. I unlinked the video and audio, shifted the video to get it in sync, cropped the ends of the video and audio to start and end at the same time, and relinked the video with the audio.
4. I selected Make Independent Clip from the context menu.
5. I dragged the synced clip back into the Browser and changed its name.
6. I opened the new clip in the Viewer, selected the individual shots with In and Out points, and made each into a subclip.
For each clip, the first subclip I created in this way worked perfectly, but for some reason the subsequent subclips all have the same audio as the first subclip. What am I doing wrong?
~ Joel

I had the sync problem when capturing DV footage until I found and deleted the FC preferences file. I found this worked for several FC problems so I found a utility that saves the prefs before a problem starts. Then you can just replace the corrupted prefs file with the saved good one and you're fixed. I posted this problem to the forum and never found an answer as to why the capture sync gets hosed so I went with what works. I would work on why the captured footage is out of sync in the first place as described above.
Sorry but I do not have an answer for your sub-clip problem, just questions. Did you capture your DV tape as one individual file? Is the audio recorded on tape 48k and captured as 48k? I know I used to do the same thing as you to correct the offset... unlink the video & audio and bump the audio track until the sync was corrected. As long as I edited the clips on the timeline, everything stayed in sync and I just worked around the problem. For me, the prefs file was the answer.

Correct way to create a small independent clip from a larger clip

In a recent post:
Tara Easley replied to: How to export a short clip from within a larger scene?
With:
"After you make your in and out points, highlight the one minute segment and go to Modify. Then click "Make Independent Clip". It should save just the 1 minute clip in your bins section. You will need to change it's name, but that should work."
My question is whether this process will make an exact "stand alone file" with duplicate quality as the original clip or is there another method that must be used to maintain the original quality of the original clip and get a new independent file?
TIA,
Ken

MartinR wrote:File > Export > QuickTime Movie.
Okay, that is as I thought. FCE cannot help me 'chop' out a portion of the original file as it came from the camera (because it is in the wrong codec to work in FCE.)
Would Final Cut Pro be able to work with more file formats? Or does it also need to have cuts converted to AIC?
I think, because I am a beginner, that I am barking up the wrong tree about editing original footage since it really would also have to be converted to AIC before it would be useable in FCE. I"ll just be sure to save all of my original files from the camera and then 'crop out' what I need as separate files for archive by the method you named above.
Thank You,
Ken

Grey out of MDM managed fields in R/3 4.7 (Interface between R/3 & SRM)

Hi All,
We have requirement for Creation/extension/changing of MMR (MM01/MM02/MM12).
Current Process:
Creation of MMR for certain material types carried out by MDM team from SRM side.In this case these materials replicated from SRM-MDM to R/3 4.7.
In such case core users from R/3 side can able to change MM fields relevent to MDM managed to fields.So that we want to restrict these fields (Replicated from MDM).to further change
The changes to MMR is only from the MDM side.Not from R/3 side
we dicided to make these fields grey out(Not Editble).through ABAP Development
case1:
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If we r creating/changing materials from MDM side.and replicated to R/3 side.
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case2:
If want to go through ABAP development,plz guide on this
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Greyed out .MOV HELP!

This isnt specifically FCPX, but I assume most people here have greater experience with media files.
I recently shot a 2 camera Biography interview and my final and most critical clip is greyed out in the "Finder" window.
I have tried other macs, dropping it from my external to desktop and playing it, but they all say that ".Mov is being used by OSX and cannot be opened". When I drop to desktop, it takes the time to transfer but then disappears after. I also cannot rename the file at all, no edits can be made in the inspector window.
This is a very critical clip, a 9 minute Master, and I would really prefer not having to go back and shoot it.

Looks like it was shot on DSLRs. Do you still have the cards or is this the only archive?
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After Effects composition greyed out on Premiere Pro timeline.

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Hi everyone. How do you make independent clips so that they stay permanent in the sequence without re-rendering/ asking for the sources when you move or open the project?

Don't think so, although I spent a bunch of time rearranging media and graphic files yesterday (keeping them on the same drive, but moving around in folders) and when I reopened the project, fcp had maintained the connection between the clips and the media (which surprised me).
First, fcp uses the term "independent" in a different way so perhaps you might avoid using this term.
At the moment, this is the way fcp works. Fooling with elements of an ongoing fcp project at the finder level is dangerous if you don't know what you're doing (and sometimes even if you do) and is not recommended.
Now occasionally there can be a problem and fcp will lose the "connection" with some of the media when it shouldn't (when you haven't moved or renamed it at the finder level). If there is happening to you, post back with more specifics and will try and troubleshoot.
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Also, nesting material can sometimes help you avoid excessive rerendering.
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I would like to use GarageBand to remaster downloaded music files that are in iTunes. Poorly mastered files keep clipping and damaging my speakers. When I try to use an iTunes file as a new project, it greys out the iTunes songs so I can't select them.

I would like to use GarageBand to remaster downloaded music files that are in iTunes. Poorly mastered files keep clipping and damaging my speakers. When I try to use an iTunes file as a new project, it greys out the iTunes songs so I can't select them. Any ideas?

As I said - look whether your original file is damaged or not. If not, I wouldn't change it and find out what in your system makes it sound like it's clipping.
Good sound file, with volume maxed out. No need to change anything.
The same song clipped - no chance to repair.

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