Moving clips loses favorite markings

So I'm editing, marking favorite sections of various clips on my MacBook Pro internal drive because it should be the fastest way to work with. Then I take those clips and move them to an external drive, excuse me, "copy" them since it doesn't allow a "move" function (that I'm aware of) like when moving events. I look at the clips on the external drive and all of the green lines, favorite markings, are now gone. Is this normal? If so, why? It loses the keywords as well. What could possibly be a good reason for this?
As a photographer I'm used to apps like Lightroom and Bridge where it is more of a what you see is what you get and all info travels with the image, seems like this should be the default here.
Thanks for any clues.

I am copying in iMovie, not the finder. I see when I move a clip from one event to another on the same hard drive the favorite green lines stay intact, it seems to only get removed when moving from one hard drive to another. I just moved an event from one drive to another drive and the green lines are indeed gone.
Any other clues will be appreciated.

Similar Messages

  • Favorite Markings Disappear

    After marking my favorite sections of clips then going back and marking the unmarked parts of the clips as "reject" I then move rejected to trash but then lose all of my "favorite" markings.  What's up with that?

    When you moved rejected to trash, you may have selected "Show Rejected Clips Only". Now go back and choose "Show Favorites and Unmarked".

  • Moving clips up/down video tracks.

    Hello
    In Vegas if I wanted to move a clip up or down X# of tracks, I could use the key-pad. #2 moves down and #8 moves it up.
    Isn't there something like this in FCE? Using a keyboard command is much easier to keep the clip from inching sideways.
    Thanks
    Allen

    David and Tom
    Thanks. Tom, even if there's a clip say on the track above and I have my moving clip selected (option + select) wouldn't it go right through the clip on the track above to any empty track I wanted to put it on?
    Reason is many times I'll have a clip on V1 I want to move to V3 and there's a clip on V2 already?
    Allen

  • I am moving clips to the timeline and they arrive zoomed in.  how can I stop this?

    need some help.  I'm moving clips to the timeline and they arrive zoomed in.  I don't want this effect.  How can I stop it?

    To expand a little on John's questions and link, every clip and every sequence has its own frame dimensions (and pixel aspect ratio & frame rate). By default, Premiere preserves the dimensions (or "resolution") of a clip when you add it to a sequence. That means that if a clip's resolution is greater than that of the sequence, it will appear to be zoomed in on the frame. Conversely, if the clip is lower res than the sequence, it will appear shrunk, with black borders.
    If all of your content is the same resolution (which is the ideal case), then you should use a sequence that matches. The easiest way to do so is the "New Item" method that John refers to--dragging a clip to the Project Panel's New Item button--or, in later releases of PPro CC, dragging it into an empty Timeline panel. If you're working with content of mixed resolution, then you have to pick your poison and scale smaller clips up or larger clips down. The latter option is generally preferred because the former--scaling clips up--often results in unacceptable pixelation.

  • Scale to frame size: clip lose quality

    Hi
    I'm working with Premiere CS3.
    I captured a clip from a Sony HVR-Z1E over IEEE1394 in a HDV Project. Settings: HDV 1080i, 25.00 Frames/Second, HD Anamorphic 1080 (1,333), upper field first.
    Afterwards I import the clip in a DV Project. Settings DV PAL, 25.00 Frames/Second,D1/DV PAL Widescreen 16:9 (1, 422), upper field first.
    In the timeline, I scale down the clip manually (under effectsettings/ move/scale)the clip to 53.3%. The clip lose quality. Pixels seems to be bigger. The same also happens if I check "scale to frame size".
    Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance.
    Regards, Corinne

    Hi
    Thanks for your reply. Yes that's right. But in CS2 the lose of quality was much smaller then in CS3. The clip was after scaling to 53.3% still useful. That can't be the problem.
    I thought thath SD DV is upper field?
    regards, Corinne

  • Moving clips vertically

    Is there a modifier key to hold whilst moving clips vertically between tracks in the timeline to stop the clip moving sideways?
    Thanks
    Dean

    I thought I'd tried all the keys especially the shift key as shift is the key in most other NLEs I've used. I now find it IS the key to use in FCP having only been using FCP for the last 6 years or so.
    Thanks Studio

  • Moving clips and closing gap across all tracks - premiere4

    HI, I have multiple clips spread across 3 tracks. There are gaps between clips that I want to make shorter - but still leaving black or empty sections. I cannot find a way to move a clip to the left so that all clips on all lanes to the right (ie afterwards) move along with it whilst keeping their relative postions vertically.
    I can see how to do this by selecting everything to the right but this would be incredibly tedious. I want to be able to, say, grab a clip on track 3 at 45secs, drag it to 43 secs and all the clips on tracks 1 and 2 and 3 etc also move 2 secs to the left.
    Any hints?
    thanks, Greg

    I have run some tests and still not getting the behaviour I want.
    I started a new project and inserted three clips - one clip to each of video tracks 1, 2 and 3. I ctrl+drag the video 3 clip to the left and the other two clips (tracks 1 and 2) move but do not keep their positions relative to the track 3 clip. Instead they advance just by the length of the moved clip. This means that the length of any gaps between clips is not preserved.
    The outcome can be that clips that were not overlapping are now overlapping, or clips that had a small gap between them now have a large gap.
    I would really like to be able to keep the relative position of the clips when I move a single clip along the timeline.
    thanks, Greg

  • Moving Clips More Precisely PrE 9

    I am moving clips around and many times want to to insert a clip exactly between two other clips. When I do it however, I seem to chop off a bit of one of the existing clips. Is there an easy way to slide in or insert precisely between two clips? It's a pain to go back and patch together the broken clips. Thank you, Stan

    I do not understand why, with Snap ON, PrE will shear off a Frame, or two, but if one Moves the Clip slowly, and with little "force," that does not happen. I have never observed similar behavior in PrPro.
    If one is doing much of this Moving, it would be wise to check the full Timeline, in case some Orphans have been created. This ARTICLE goes into more detail on Orphans, and how to handle them.
    Good luck,
    Hunt

  • .mov clip loses quality

    I imported a .mov clip into final cut, then I drag the .mov clip onto my timeline, but the clip loses quality when it's on the timeline.  I exported it using the h.264 format and it loses quality.  The loss of quality of the video is very noticeable.
    Does someone have an answer for this?  And, what do I need to do for my video clip to maintain its original quality when I put it on the timeline and when I export it?  Please let me know.  Thanks

    Michael Grenadier wrote:
    so studio...  who's gonna win tonight?
    Probably no one - and we'll subjected to a never ending barrage of political ads forever
    ... oh ... the ... HORROR ....
    x

  • Moving Clips - and how not to lose the audio? Help needed!

    Hi,
    I have used Premiere Pro 6.0 quite extensively over the years and have recently moved to Premiere Pro CS5.
    With Premiere Pro 6.0 I could move/drag clips on the time-line and their linked audio would move with them.  If I moved the video clip to another video track, say, above an existing clip, the audio would also move to a free audio track and not automically write over any existing audio.  This would allow me to easily reorder clips on the timeline by simply moving them around and using other video tracks as temporary storage locations... and not lose or write over any other existing audio.
    However in Premiere Pro CS5 if I do the same thing, the video will move to the other video track I move it to, but the audio will stay in the say audio track and will write-over any existing audio when the mouse button is released.  The only way around this I can find in the manual is to: (1) drag the video to the other video track, and (2) press and hold the <SHIFT> key, whilst, (3) draging the linked audio to another audio track to avoid existing audio from being over-written.
    My question:  Is there a configuation I can set in CS5 to allow moving/draging of clips to work like in Premiere Pro 6.0?  I have already messed up multiple times in CS5 by inadvertently over-writing existing audio.
    Your expert advice and recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
    THANKS IN ADVANCE.

    Harm,
    Your reply is not helpful.  Just so you know, I have read through the manual extensively and could not find an answer for my question.  AND that's why I brought my question here.
    Perhaps I missed something in the manual.  Would you mind re-reading my question and helping me if it is so easy?!
    This has been frustrating for me for the last three months and I thought I would come to this forum for some expert advice.  So far I have been told that CS5 is designed to be like this (does not answer my question), and now you tell me to look up the manual (again does not answer my question).
    I'm amazed by responses that miss the question entirely and give helpful suggestions like that!

  • Moving Clips - Files lost

    Hi, I don't know what's going on here and would appreciate some advice.
    I imported a new set of clips and decided to move them off my system drive onto my media drive.
    I CMD dragged the event, and it worked, but it seemed odd that it was immediate.
    I checked and there was no ongoing media management in the background tasks list.
    I was even more concerned by that actually.
    I opened the destination events folder in the finder and discovered all my files listed, but they were only a few kb (max 80kb or so).
    They were small clips, but not that small!
    Oddly, some (5 of the 7) still played in QT.
    The other two opened in QT and played a black square to me for some duration (possible the same as the original clip).
    I can only assume that these small .mov files are reference movies, but checking the original events folders, the originals are certainly not there.
    So am I being dull?
    Does anyone have any ideas what is going on?
    Does anyone know how to find out where the referenced content is actually residing from the (presumed) reference movies I have found?
    There is a little more background to this, but given these were all new clips, I doubt it relates...
    I only recently bought FCPX, and my first experience with it was two crashes importing my iMovie events and projects.
    After a long saga of salvage operations and multiple crashes, I have only just got my iMovie events and projects imported and FCPX to seemingly work properly. One movie (that worked perfectly in iMovie) seemed to be a constant problem for FCPX and was likely the reason for the import crashes.
    I need FCPX for my work video editing (just bought a 3D filter, and I cannot find any alternative OS-X software), but I can't trust it with my video if this is going to happen all the time!
    Help!

    Hi Tom, thanks for helping.
    That might explain some of the troubles I had when I first imported, it crashed, I seemed to have two full copies of everything in the iMovie and FCPX folders, which was not physically possible in the constrains on my disk!
    However, not these files! - I have done some detective work and have found some answers myself.
    These are reference movies (if that's the right term?), not sim-links.
    QT7Pro allows you to view the referenced video files from a reference movie.
    I found the originals - still in my iPhoto library.
    I remember now dragging them to the event from my media browser.
    It must create sim-links reference movies in this method of import too - from recollection, there was no dialogue to ask me whether to copy or not. Then when I tried to move the events (sim-links reference movies) to an external drive it worked - just the refernce movies, not the full ones.
    Apologies - I said I had checked them before and they were definitely there (this was the case for all my other videos) but seemingly not true for these.
    I still haven't figured out why 2 files died (black video) - maybe I had deleted the file in iPhoto. All a bit misleading if you ask me, these links / reference movies and liable to lose me my movie clips!
    Anyway, I think I am going to count this as resolved for now.
    I am also dubious about the methods of iMovie import, so right now I have completely reinstalled FCPX, removed pref. files, and renamed / moved all project and event folders. I am now reimporting (by copy) all my original movies and I will have to live without the edited projects (no big problem to be honest).
    Hopefully after all this, I can have a FCPX that 'just works'!
    Thanks Tom and Russ for helping me work through this, and so quickly too.
    Message was edited by: mr.mbarnes

  • Imovie 11: When moving clips from event to project, the top of the video clip is cut off.

    I'm working with a new project. When I add clips from an event to the project window, the top of the video clip is cut off.  Quite a bit of it is cut off.  It happens on every clip.  The aspect ratio is correct and I've set the video to fit in frame.  How can I fix this?  I would really appreciate any help.

    You may have stabilization turned on in the project. On one of the clips, click on the small gear icon at the start of the clip and select Clip Adjustments. In the Inspector that opens, uncheck the box "Smooth Clip Motion" against Stabilization. If this fixes it for you, do the same for the other clips.
    Also, it's a good idea to turn off certain preferences in iMovie>Preferences (an iMovie menu item). In the Browser tab uncheck the boxes for both "Automatically stabilize clips that have been analyzed" and "Apply rolling shutter correction for clips that have been analyzed". See this picture:
    The stabilization process causes a zoomed in effect on the video, as it has to "average" the pixels in order to smooth any shaky motion. You therefore lose a certain amount of the picture, depending on the extent of stabilization applied. Here's what iMovie Help states (in part) about this process:
    "iMovie stabilizes video by analyzing the camera motion in the video and then moving the picture the opposite way to steady it onscreen. In this process, iMovie zooms in on the picture slightly. The amount of unstable motion in the clip determines how much zooming is necessary.
    Zooming in crops out some of the picture, but you can fine-tune the level of stabilization to strike the right balance between keeping the video steady and retaining as much of the picture as possible."
    John

  • Moving clips one frame at a time

    I'm trying to line up some clips to all be the same length and start and end at the same exact time.
    But final cut pro x is making it very difficult for me!
    Is there an easy short-cut to move a clip one frame at a time?
    I want these clips to line up exactly!
    Thank you,

    The way I was doing it was zooming in really close (command +) and then manually moving the clips to line up.
    But comma and period are exactly what I was looking for.
    Thanks!

  • Moving Clips - Frustration

    Coming from FCP I'm used to being able to pick a clip up on the timeline and move it (e.g. to early on the sequence) complete with audio.  As I pull the video clip up a track (in FCP) the Audio goes down a track (or two tracks for stereo pair) and I can move things left and right without overwriting the clips that were immediately left or right on the same (original) track.
    Premiere Pro seems to only move the video (if you click and drag the video) OR the audio (if you click and drag the audio) but not both.   I've read the manual looking for a "Shift" or "Control" or "Alt" key to make it work like FCP but can't figure it out.
    So, how do I move them up/down a track simultaneously?   If it can't be done then it's a two step operation which is crazy!  Feature request time!  Arrgghh!
    Help!
    Also, I'm sure I've read that there is no way to constrain, but IS THERE anyway to constrain a clip during a vertical move (so it doesn't drift left or right) ?   I'm spending more time realigning clips to 00:00:00:00 offset than I am moving them.  Frustrating and time consuming for something that FCP achieved by holding the shift key while moving.    Any hints?

    I want to move Clip 2 to V2 and then left over Clip 1 so that I can do a picture in picture (as an example) over Clip 1.   As I click and drag Clip 2 video to V2 and move it left (over Clip 1) Clip 2's audio is over writing Clip 1 audio (on A1), whereas on FCP the audio for Clip 2 would now have moved to A2 and not over write Clip 1, because as I move the video for Clip 2 up a track the audio moved down a track. 
    Is this possible in PPro ?
    It is, and it's arguably more flexible in Premiere, though perhaps not as intuitive or obvious as in FCP.
    Following your example above, when you drag Clip 2's video to V2, hold down the Shift key; this "pins" the video portion of the clip to whichever track you happen to have landed in. While holding the Shift key, drag the mouse down to the audio tracks; the video portion of the clip will stay put, and you can position the audio portion in A2 or any other audio track that you like. This is what makes it more flexible than FCP's implementation, where the clip would always be moving in lock-step. Similarly, you can pin the audio portion if you drag it first, then hold Shift, and then drag up to the video tracks.
    I totally agree with you on the relatively puny magnetic force when vertically dragging. I've request a vertical contraint modifier, as you apparently have. If you zoom in a bit before dragging, you'll have more finite control, or you can position the playhead to the first or last frame of a clip, which seems to make snapping a bit more active.

  • Moving clips...fce drops the clip as soon as mouse stops... quirky glitch?

    Ok so i have a bit of a problem with FCE. I am trying to move clips around in the timeline. I can move them, but as soon as I stop moving the mouse the clip just gets dropped onto the timeline.
    any idea on how i can turn this function (or does it sound like a bug?)

    no its not snapping. I'm litterally dragging the clips around, and as soon as I stop dragging it just drops the clip like onto the timeline.
    sorry for my inaccurate explanation. I'll boot up FCE and try again to make sure its not just a 2-3 times thing.

Maybe you are looking for