Slashes on video track for fcp 6

Hi, I'm curious what these lines are. They're slashes that go from top left to the bottom right of the track and im wondering if it will affect the output of my final product. It's also very annoying to see. lol thank you.

If its actually on the track (timeline) it could be that those tracks are locked.
Try toggling the little padlock button in the patchbay on the left on the timeline.
TJ

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Just purchased FCP X & wow ... sparing all the rants I've been hearing, I'm sure it can do what I'm looking for, just that all the features are now hidden from view.
Step 1 - anyone know how to create additional video tracks?

Tried that & a Pandora's box of other questions opened up. Doing some research, watching videos, etc... just need to scrap most/all knowledge of previous FCP versions & start from scratch with this new interface philosophy it would seem.
One other symptom that seems disturbing: sometimes activiating a feature does not activate a feature.
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Welcome to the  Discussion Forums.
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Set in/out at head/tails of the timeline, select all and go to...Main Menu/Sequence/Nest Items.
The nested sequence will be a single bluish/purplish video track with aqua audio.
With that nested sequence open in the timeline, option-click on the video track and apply your filter...or drag it to the video track from the effects tab of the browser.
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K

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2) Will I need any other hook ups to make this work with my system?
(Right now I am using a JVC SR-VS30U Dual Deck. A firewire from the computer to the deck and component from the deck to to t.v. the deck also has s-video)
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Sounds like a great choice as long as the size works for you. A small truly high-res monitor is much more useful than a big impressive soft one for analysis monitoring.
1) I don't think you need anything else unless the JVC thing doesn't work out. In that case you can try your camcorder, or a capture device such as ADS Pyro, Matrox MXO, or one of the Aja or Decklink cards. Depends...
2) JVC SR-VS30U - I don't know, there are a lot of devices that won't simply pass FireWire through, including many or most DVD recorders. Your best bet is to try it and monitor it on whatever you have.
If you're on NTSC you'll have to pay attention to the black setup. Many consumer digital devices these days won't put in the 7.5IRE setup for North America.
That's OK as long as you aren't using it to do analog conversions. If you can get FCP bars through the thing and set the monitor up properly to them, you should be OK. I'm sure the monitor can be set to 0IRE in menus if need be.
3) It won't show you an HD signal. If you're using the MXO it will give you a realtime SD downconvert to monitor. But that monitor won't display anything but NTSC and PAL. If it did I would probably say that 13" is too small.

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I'll explain my situation even though it's not that important. I will be shooting a dance recital and along with my cuts between a wide and closeup shot, my client wants a horizontally split screen, a portion of the lower part being an extreme wide shot to keep everyone in the shot. I really hate this idea because I think it'll look horrible, but I may have to against my reccomendation.
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I'm having difficulties pulling audio tracks out of FCP 6 into Compressor to create a 5.1 mix for a DVD, and wondered if anyone could offer advice.
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Matt

OK. I found the solution!
The six "audio outputs" do NOT automatically correspond to the tracks A1 ... A6. In fact, in my sequence (I don't know if this is default), A1 went to output 3, and the rest of the tracks went to output 4. Go figure.
To set the outputs correctly, you do have to set six outputs, dual mono and zero levels, which I did, but then right-click in each audio track (between the A1 label and the padlock icon) and set the output to the required file. So track 1 should go to output 1, track 2 to output 2, and so on.
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Matt
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