Making change to media file
Here's the scenario:
I captured an hour long segment and its about 20 frames out of sync with the audio all the way through. I have synced the video back up with the audio (in the timeline) and want to apply this change to the media file. I believe I read somewhere in the user manual how to do this but cannot find it now. Anyone know how to do this?
Thanks,
Jared
Click the clip in the timeline:
Are the clipnames on the clip in the timeline itself all underlined?
If yes: Press 2 times Command-L to unlink and then relink the clips.
If No: Press 1 time Command-L to relink the clip.
FCP will now keep them sync.
But to be hounostly: That is a poor workaround, make one mistake in your timeline during editing and it won't work anymore.
So it's better to Export your synced timeline (Export > Quicktime movie), with current settings. and re-import that. But by doing so, be aware of the following:
You can make it a reference movie: Make sure not to delete the original file from the disk. The reference movie is only a pointer to the original file.
You can also make this syned clip as a selfcontained movie. Now you have a new Quicktime file that is sync. You may delete the original.
And actually first off all:
Make sure you find the cause of this 20! frames out of sync!
You won't be happy to need to 'repair' every time.
Rienk
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