Trim Edit Window Issues

Question

Hi,
Experiencing some trouble with the Trim Edit window. Here's what's happening.
I double click an edit point on the timeline to launch the Trim Edit window. Okay. Sometimes it works fine and I get the outgoing clip on the left and the incoming clip on the right, and when I adjust the edit point, it is reflected in the Out/In Shift indicator at the bottom of each window with a +00:00:03 or -00:00:02 or whatever.
But sometimes I launch the Trim Edit window and both the left and the right windows are black. Sometimes I launch the Trim Window and the incoming clip is correct, but the outgoing clip is cued up wrong, or vice versa. When this is the case, the Out/In Shift counters are also out of whack. For example, an actual adjustment of +2 frames comes out as reading +00:15:03 on the indicator. In addition, sometimes the video clip is correct but the audio that plays comes from somewhere else entirely in the clip. It's pretty frustrating.
Now, to dig a little further, we are importing these clips with a Kona 2 card using the 1080psf 23.98 DVCPro HD codec and cutting on a 23.98 timeline. Some of the audio coming in on the master tapes isn't usable, so we are also importing audio from a back up system. I find the sync clap on the video and line it up with the sync clap on the backup audio. I hilight the video and audio tracks hit Command+L to link them, and then drag into my browser to make a new master clip.
I must be doing something wrong in the linking process, because these Trim Edit window problems seem to only occur with the newly linked clips. But the strange part is that it isn't consistent. Yesterday the Trim Edit wasn't working properly on a particular scene. Today I go back to that scene and the Trim Edit function works fine.
So, after reading this epic post, if anyone has any insight or ideas on how to solve this problem, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks.
Dual 2.5 G5   Mac OS X (10.4.2)   6 GB RAM

Answer 1

hello i have the same problem since june 2005
i'm working for a national broadcast television who produces a sitcom
we use dv camera in progressive mode (panasonic ag-dvx100a Pal)
sound is recording on compactflash card in wave format
and i have to synchronise 2 video tracks (2 cameras shooting simultanely) and one stereo sound track
i put aux tc on the second video and the stereo pair and link them all
I'm working on 2 powerbooks
1. powerbook 1.33Gb with 10.4.4 and quicktime 7.04 andfcp 5.04
2. powerbook 1.5Gb with 10.4.2 and quicktime 7.xx and fcp 5
i use a g-raid 500gb firewire 800 to digitalise the clips
When I use the roll or ripple tool with few tracks selecting I can only work in the timeline.
When I open the "edit trim" window, the application crash down or more oftently the pictures I get in both sides of the window when I move even one frame forward or backward, aren't the right ones.
it changes everytime for example: on the left side I get +5:02 shift and the right side +3:10 shift
i try to create new project or smaller one even by XML export
i try to trash preferences
but there's no change
May be have you a idea or a suggestion?
it seems that external sound source or/and linking and merging fonction in this case are the problem
Thanks a lot
Roland
P.S sorry for my english but I used to speak french
Roland JOSEPH
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