Move a Compound Clip to another project?

is there any way to move a compound clip in FCPx from one project to another?? I tried copying and pasting but am not having success... it just just pastes something that I copied earlier. Any ideas?? Thanks!

Jim is right. I also do this all the time. In fact I "park" several compound clips that I want to reuse in a project made just for that purpose. Then I go into that project, select the compound clip and do the Command C to copy it. Then I exit out of that project and go into the project I want the clip to be copied to. I then (IMPORTANT) click somewhere in the timeline and do a Command V to paste it there. No problems. The only problems I sometimes have is with embedded titles that occasionally loose the text in the first or second title in a series that might have been enclosed in the compound clip. Other than that it works great. By the way, since you are talking about "moving" the compound clip instead of "copying" it, you could use a Command X to cut then the Command V to paste, but that's rather severe and might not survive as a clip should your project crash or some unlikely thing on your way to the new project. If you really want to move it, just copy then paste then go back to the original project and delete it there. Best wishes.
stephen

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I have 10 projects, numbered 1 through 10. My goal was to have one event for each project. However, it looks like most of my compound clips from my later projects got automatically created and placed in the first event (Video 1) instead of in the correctly numbered event. I'm pretty sure the clips INSIDE the compound clips are referencing the correct event; it's just the compound clip itself that resides in the wrong event. I'd like to move these compound clips over to the event they SHOULD have been created in, in the first place. However, I'm not sure if dragging and dropping them to the correct event will (a) create a new copy of the compound clip (one that is not referenced by any project whatsoever), or (b) move the original compound clip to the right event (removing it from the original/wrong event). Also, I'm really concerned about this, because I'm not sure how this affects the compound clip as used inside the actual project. I often have certain effects, color correction, etc. applied to the compound clip itself, and I don't want to lose that.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I really want to get these clips in order.

You can freely drag compound clips between events as you've seen.
If you do this between events in the same library, it will be a move by default; holding down the Option key will make it a copy operation.
If you drag between events in different libraries, this will be a copy operation. All clips contained in the compound clip will also be copied (or references as sym links) to the target library in order to keep the library completely self-contained (libraries never references each other and never span volumes).
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I'm working on an opening sequence that will be used in several projects. I know that I can create a Compound Clip in the events library and put my clips there, but I can't use FCPX's transitions in it. Is there a way that I can duplicate a compound clip from one project into another? Besides copy and paste, that is, in a fashion that when I update the original it also updates the projects that reference it.

I know that I can create a Compound Clip in the events library and put my clips there, but I can't use FCPX's transitions in it.
Not sure why you think this but you definitely can create transitions inside compound clips that are in Events. They should act much like any other Compound Clips (though there are a few differences, one is no Auditions).
If you are thinking that you can't use a transition on a compound clip, then you need to remember that you first have to provide enough media for the transition -- either let FCPX do it by using "full overlap" in the preferences, or trim back the compound clip once placed in the timeline if using "available media."
Is there a way that I can duplicate a compound clip from one project into another? Besides copy and paste, that is,
That is the only way to do it -- copypaste.
in a fashion that when I update the original it also updates the projects that reference it.
Currently there doesn't exist any entity in FCPX that behaves like this. Each time you place something in a project, it becomes a separate "instance" and is no longer connected to the original clip/compound clip you copied it from, whether from an Event or another Project. It would be nice to have that option (e.g., a checkbox that makes a compound clip in an Event "Dynamically Update" copies wherever it exists in projects), but that would be a new feature. Use Feedback to request it!

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

Compound clip imported into project not showing up in the event browser

I have learnt that when one imports any clip into the project from anywhere else other than its associated event folder, the new clip also gets automatically added into the event folder. I have seen this occur when I had imported audio from the music browser onto my timeline directly.
Today I happened to place a compound clip [a common template which I use for introduction to the video] onto the beginning of a project which I have started recently. I broke the compound clip apart and made the necessary edits. What puzzles me is that this compound clip has an audio clip and this clip was not being shown in the event browser. Is this normal?
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Let me explain the matter in a different way...
I have made a compound clip of the intitial generator clip, titles and music clip which I had used for my first project. The intention to do so being that I could reuse the same for my future projects as well. I placed this compound clip in a new project which I named as templates.
When I had started upon a new project a few days ago, I copied and pasted this compound clip from the 'templates project' and added it to the beginning of the timeline of the new project.
Now, for purposes of editing the titles, I broke apart the compound clip and changed the text of the titles. Also, when I had ungrouped the compound clip, there did appear the music clip below the timeline. I know that clips imported from the generator browser and the titles that are added to the project do not show up in the events browser, but should not the audio clip make its appearance in the event browser? I know that when we add an audio from the music browser, this audio clip will be automatically shown in the event browser.
My question therefore is this: is an audio track that gets added to the timeline of a project via a compound clip that has been added and ungrouped on the timeline an exception to the rule?
Hope I have made myself clear.
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Will compound clips honor the project settings?

Hi,
When I created my compound clips I created then from proxy files at 2K. Now I have gone through all the compound clips and replaced the proxy files with the master 4K files, but to my horror I have discovered that the clips all have individual clip settings, which remain at their old proxy dimensions (2K). Furthermore I have been unable to edit the clip settings for multiple clips (I don't welcome spending my night going through all 300 clips again!).
My project is set to 4K and render type as Prores 4444; if I drop the clips on the timeline, will they honor the project settings or will they remain 2K?
I don't really get what this behavior is for. Wouldn't you want all the clips in a project to render to the same format?

As Tom asks, how did you manage to work with 2K proxies that are not linked?
If you import the 4K masters into FCPX and ask it to generate proxies, you can swap back and forth, automatically!
Preferences: Playback: Playback settings..
If you've done the proxies manually, you have to manually change them..

Problems with missing media in compound clips in archived projects...

I archived some FCPX projects as sparse disk bundles. When I archived them, to save space, I deleted the optimized and proxy media, and only kept the original files (which are AVCHD), so that saved a lot of space. Now I find that I need to go back and edit the projects some more and make some changes. So I opened the sparse disk bundles and transcoded the media again into optimized and proxy media.
The problem I'm having is that most of the clips in these projects are compound clips. And I'm getting the red screen with the "T" and the exclamation mark in the yellow triangle. I presume that means footage is missing?
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Or is FCPX maybe looking for the media that composes the compound clips in areas where it no longer is?
I should note that I made sparse disk bundles of these clips after all the editing was done. In other words, when I created the compound clips, the projects were not in these sparse disk bundles. I'm guessing that is what's causing this problem and that I just have to somehow "tell" FCPX where to find the media from the compound clips.

I am using 10.1.1 on OS X 10.9.3 Mavricks.
Here are two screenshots the first is how the timeline should look and the second is with the clips missing.

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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
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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.
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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.
About compound clips... FCPX tries to guess a format based on "common" properties. If you're creating compound clips with mixed media - Use Custom Settings and set the properties to be the same as the project format.
HTH

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Hi,
I know that I can create compound clips in the timeline or the events browser.
But is it possible to MOVE a compound clip created in the timeline to an event?
This would be very useful for syncing clips in the timeline first and moving them to the events browser later.
Thanks!

Create an empty Compound Clip in the Browser, and then copy and paste the relevant clips from the timeline into that CC (open the CC in the timeline first).
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Missing Compound Clip

I created some compound clips in a project that I am currently working on. After editing another area of the project, I discovered that a few of the compound clips appear to be blank. The clips have a large compound clip symbol that I can see but nothing plays - no audio or video. The clip name appears on top of the clip in the timeline but it does not show up in the index. I'm not sure what I did to cause this. It happened before and I just hit undo until the clip came back. I didn't catch this in time to do that. Would editing the compound clip in the timeline without expanding it cause this? I really don't want to re-do all my work.

The compound in the event viewer is also blank. It is the original, unedited clip that still plays. My fault for not understanding that. Here is what the compound clip looks like in the event viewer.

Gaps mysteriously appeared in compound clip

I wanted to combine 2 completed projects with some additional clips into a third project. I made a snapshot of each finished project, opened each snapshot, selected all of the clips in it, and then made it a compound clip. This allowed me to include the two completed movies as compound clips in the new project. A funny thing happened. One compound clip was just fine, but the 2nd compound clip had 1 frame gaps between each original clip. I don't know why it did that, it totally disrupted the timing of the edits. And I don't know why it did it to one snapshot and not the other. Any ideas?

I didn't particularly want a bazillion clips * 2 in my final combined timeline, I wanted 2 compound clips plus a few other miscellany clips.
But regardless of the reason, here are 2 images. First a section of the original timeline:
and what it looked like after I selected all, turned it into a new compound clip, then opened that compound clip:
As you can see, the gaps between the clips, aside from being unsightly, throw the timing off and make the audio horrible.
As I said, I have 2 projects I tried this with. As far as I can tell they are identical in structure (1080p) but of course have different content. This happens to one of them but not the other. I can't figure out what the missing variable is.

Audio level different in compound clip

Experiening an odd audio behaviour. I have created a compound clip and them dropped in interview into it. After that I place a compressor on the interview audio and set it to agerage at -20db. Once I them place the conpound clip onto a project the audio level in the peoject drops by -5db. I need to bump the project audio up +5db to get it back the agerage -20db it is in the compound clip. I have tried this on 2 systems with the same exact results.
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That's odd. When you change the compound should update. Bring the compound clip into the project. Double click the clip to open its component clips. Make any change that's easily reversed – say, disable a clip (V). Close the project. Create a new empty project. Bring the compound to the new project. The disabled clip should not be visible.
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I have an edited compund clip that someone created and every time I play it, there are audio fades in between the cuts that shouldn't be there and the person who edited it claims they never added them. When I go and fix them all, next time I open final cut and play that clip, the fades are added back in. Why is this happening? Basicall in between the cuts audio drops at the end of the first cut and then goes up on the beginning of the next clip in the cut. It's like FCX is doing this automatically, but I can't get rid of it for good. Any ideas?
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That's odd. When you change the compound should update. Bring the compound clip into the project. Double click the clip to open its component clips. Make any change that's easily reversed – say, disable a clip (V). Close the project. Create a new empty project. Bring the compound to the new project. The disabled clip should not be visible.
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I have a project where I went inside a compound clip to conform the clip speed (it was previously retimed but shouldn't have been).
At this point FCP X crashed. After restarting now I cannot open any compound clips in a timeline.
This is deadly. I assume the project file got broken during the crash somehow.
Is there any kind of autosave vault so I can rescue a previous version before it crashed?

Magic Feather wrote:
Yep. This happend to us last week. This is what you're going to need to do to get the cc back.
Create a new project. Drag the compound clip in question into it from your event browser. Break the compound apart and you should be ok. This will incur crashes at each step, but if you're patient you'll get it back.
Did you start this project in 10.0.7 and update the project a few weeks back? Sometimes little quirks like this happen when you update when you're in the middle of a project. It's no consolation, I know, but I think that is where it's coming from.
Please let us know if this works...
Thanks. Will try that. Total pain as nearly a hundred compound clips in this project that were created to solve a different problem!
Yes project started in 10.0.7 and updated to 10.0.8 yesterday.

Editing last clip in compound clips

I have a series of clips grouped together in a larger compound clip. I have chosen to delete the last clip from the series and now there is a gap of a few seconds before the end of the compound clip grouping and the next series in the storyline. How do i go about trimming the back end of the compound clip?

You can drag the compound clip's out/end point to the left until it turns yellow, then drag it back to the right until it stops (it will turn red again), which will be at the end of the last clip in the compound clip.
Another option is to select the compound clip, press Cmd-Shift-G (Break Apart Clip Items) then Option-G (New Compound Clip).

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