Understanding the Timeline

I need help working with and undersanding my timeline. I have everything working fairly well until the end of the slide. Even though it works, I realize that I do not understand the pause points in time and how they should be sequenced.
Each slide represents a step of a math problem. One of the steps of adding fractions is to find the Least Common Denominator. To find the Least Common Denominator, the student must first find the multiples of the denominators, which multiples are in common, and which common number is the least (smallest).
Below is the slide where the student finds the multiples. I have left out a text animation for answers correct, but am showing the other objects:
1) The Menu button should always be visible and available to the student.
2) There are four TEBS and on the timeline they each have pause points shown on the timeline.
This is what it looks like when the student first sees the slide:
If correct answers are input, the student sees:
If answered correctly, Next Step takes them to the next slide where they are asked to tell which of these multiples are in common.
If they get a couple of answers wrong on this question, they see:
If there are incorrect answers, the student can re-submit (unlimited times) and try and get the correct answers.
By clicking "Review and Try Again" the student is taken to a YouTube video on finding multiples of numbers and then can return to this slide to try and get the correct answers.
By clicking "See Solution" the student watches a video clip (event video?) that shows how the correct answers are arrived at and what those answers are. The student would watch this clip and then proceed to the next slide, which lists the correct multiples (answers from this slide) and asks them to look at the list of multiples and asks which multiples are common to both numbers.
By clicking "See Solution" the student accepts an "incorrect" for this step of the problem and is able to proceed with the problem.
The following objects have pause lines in my timeline:
1) The four TEBs
2) The Menu Button
3) The Submit Button
4) The Review and Try Again button
5) The See Solution button
Should the pauses for the different things be sequenced? I was thinking that the See Solution should somehow be last so that the video clip plays and is the last thing on the slide. I've been playing with it, but can't seem to get the video to play after clicking See Solution.

You can add an action at the end of a Timeline. You can delete the FullImage there.

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I dip into FCP Pro X when I have a new project to edit - in between doing other things. The interface reminds me of the dash on my old Merc A160. It has very few buttons and they have multiple functions, but to change the time on the clock I always have to consult the manual. Less is not always more - something Apple struggle to understand sometimes. If I was using FCP all the time (heaven would be not having several different jobs) I would probably figure it out - but, because there is nothing intuitive about the interface, I have to relearn how to use it every time I come back to it. Just like the buttons on my Merc. I have completed a couple of editing projects in FCP. But I haven't looked at it for some months. In between I have been using Resolve (because a lot of my footage is shot in Log mode - something FCP doesn't handle at all - and I have to use a LUT to make the clips usable in the editing process).
I have a wedding to edit. Three cameras, three audio tracks on the cameras plus the church PA audio and a Roderick recording from a mic work by the groom. I would like to choose an audio track and sync the video to that - but I learned last time that is not possible (or not easy).
I looked at multicam sync clips but I can't see how I can use this to fit my workflow - it requires too many decisions up front and I don't have small clips - I have two 1hr "clips" and some smaller ones from the handheld camera. I don't want to chop up the "master" clip and I can't see how to easily sync everything together in such a way that I can see it all.   Yes I see that I can choose different angles in a different editor, but I don't want to get into that at this stage - I just want to see all my material in a timeline so I can make major edit decisions first. Oh I wish I had not thrown out FCP 10...
So what I want to do this morning is just drop clips into the timeline from the main camera, chop it up and remove the bits of the ceremony that I don't want in the final video and then choose clips from the other cameras to replace the main camera.
So, I drop a clip in the timeline. Its the warmup to the wedding. People are sitting down. The organ is playing. I don't want this in this timelines. So I trim the clip from left to where I want it to start. Great. Except...
... the timeline now starts halfway across the display and I have a blank black box to the left. I cannot, for the life of me, see how to move the start of the clip back to the left margin. Nor can I imagine why anyone at Apple thinks this is a useful thing to do?
In between all of this I have the usual Yosemite instability issues and, for whatever reason, Preview keeps crashing so using the FCP User Guide is more or less impossible.
Any clues?
And don't say use Resolve on Windows instead. I don't need much persuasion, and I hate Windows.

I don't agree with you here. Resolve is much easier to use - I don't have to try and get into the heads of the developers and its is easy to see how my material slots into the editor.
I am still trying to get my head around the way FCP organises the material. Events/Projects? What are they thinking here? How does this fit into a wedding video? I can create meaningful "events" (wedding/photoshoot/reception) etc but why would I?. Is a "project" just a timeline - a "sequence" in normal film editors? Why not call it that then? I cannot figure out what kind of environment Apple were imagining when they came up with this way of organising things? They must have had some kind of job in mind where events and projects make sense. The manual is silent on where the clips actually go - are they organised within events? within projects" or within both? Whatever it is, it might be easier to understand what FCP is doing if Apple explained what this structure means and why they have adopted it. I am left to guess.
What I can't seem to get rid of is the groups (I have no idea what else to call them) which are just a date and under which my clips appear. I don't want this hierarchy but I can't see how to get rid of it...   Clips that should be together, but were filmed on different dates, are in different places - and I cannot see how to group them together without these dates imposing another level of hierarchy, I struggled through the last couple of videos not really understanding where my clips were and ended up with multiple copies all over the place. Right now I don't know if I have all my footage in the library or not - its so hard to construct a meaningful organisation in this crazy interface. I just deleted 8 copies of a lapel mic audio track - I have no idea how I got 8 copies of that into this library. Does FCP just import duplicates without warning? Its so hard to correlate what is in the library with my folder structure on disk...
To my mind, this is one project - a wedding video. And this video will include multiple sequences. But my clips need to be ordered in such a away that makes sense to me - I am not sure how to do that in FCP, but its easy in file manager. The clips were shot in various locations on multiple occasions. But this has nothing to do with the finished product, which will have its own order of things, not necessarily related to the order of shooting. In FCP (or Resolve) I would have the clips in bins and my various sequences which I could then assemble.   Now I guess these are projects? They aren't "projects" at all - at least to in my mind. I don't like having to think about this project (the wedding video) in some weird way which only makes sense to the FCP developers. Maybe they never filmed a wedding!
Thanks for the advice re multicam clips. I came to the same conclusion but there is an awful lot of stuff to synchronise and I am not confident that FCP will do this in one go. But now I have to learn and get familiar with the different editing environment for multicam clips. Oh joy! I am hoping I can add more clips to a multicam clip afterwards - once I sort out how to get my footage into some meaningful structure without all these surplus dates... The clips have been imported so that the file structure creates keywords - which would be ok, perhaps, except for this extra date-related hierarchy which means I have to keep expanding the tabs to see the clips.
As for Synchronised clips, if you read the user guide there is nothing to warn you that this is an audio-only sync. Or which video track you are going to end up with. "For example, if you select two video clips and three audio clips from different sources that were all recorded during the same take, Final Cut Pro automatically analyzes and syncs the clips together into a new clip in the Browser." Perhaps, when they wrote this manual, they were thinking this would create a multicam clip. Or maybe its an old manual - I don't suppose they get updated automatically. Maybe I better go look to see if there is a newer version on Apple's website.
I seem to spend a lot of my time undoing the default settings in FCP. I don't want my footage disappearing into an impenetrable amorphous mass in some hidden library somewhere, so I have to remember to change that default - the wording in the inspector is not very clear and sometimes I find that it is importing the material into its library and creating another copy. I generally only notice when my backup software suddenly starts copying gigabytes of data to tape...
I don't want to see my footage an in iMovie layout with no tracks either. Especially my audio tracks, so I always have to unpack them. I miss the little buttons to turn off different audio tracks - yes I know there is another way to do this, but its not obvious (as with everything else in this software) and means fumbling around in the interface to find how to do it - and its slower if you want to flip between audio tracks to decide which one to use at any given point. Its the same with synchronising clips. You expect to select the clip, right click and get a sync option. But its in a separate menu under Clip. Why? If you want to copy a clip to another library its not under a clip menu - but under the file menu? Why? I think its a terrible mess - and I think that Apple introduced a level of complexity to this interface with little to show for it. I am new to Resolve. It looks complicated with all its colour wheels and stuff, but actually its very intuitive and easy to use. And its very easy to structure clips and sequences without having to spend hours trying to figure out how Apple think you should do things. if you use FCP all the time then fine - you get used to it. But is it truly a better way to work?   I like structure - it helps me to understand my material - but FCP is anti-structure and forces a virtual schema on its users. If you like that, well and good - but it shouldn't be compulsory.
I got my head around using keywords - but I hate it - its just extra work for me and I hate the loss of the direct relationship with my material. Its very hard to see whether I have used all the material or not and how it all fits together. Now I have duplicated stuff everywhere and lots of things missing - but no real organisation. And I have to remember how I keyworded clips to find them - not easy in a big project. And since I have lots of big clips I have to remember not to change the I/O points without first saving the subclip and assigning a keyword. Extra work and easy to stuff up. Its a problem too if you edit a subclass without realising it is just a virtual clip so every instance will be edited. Sometimes thats a good thing, but not always. The issue is that this happens invisibly so you have to be very careful working with these virtual clips. Subclips are safer - you always know whats happening - and that's increasingly difficult when you have lots of subclips which are really the same material but grouped separately.
Its much the same with all Apple's software today - its all written from some other planet. I have had to take out a subscription to Office 365, use Dropbox and oneDrive instead if iCloud and download Resolve to deal with my Blackmagic camera. Its a consumer world at Apple now - and an iMovie view of the world. Apple like to hide half the functionality because they think it makes things look easy. Their manuals are useless and their online Help worse.
And yes, thanks for the Shift-Z. That works, though finding it in the manual is another matter. But why this behaviour in the first place? Is there any reason why you would want your timeline to start halfway across the screen? Why doesn't the clip just snap back to the left as it would in any other editor? Its little quirks like this that make this a very frustrating experience. I am not editing all the time - I am just as likely to be in Dreamweaver, Indesign, Illustrator or Photoshop - or working on business projects. I don't feel I should have to wade through a badly written user guide or ask basic questions in this forum every time I come back to FCP Pro X - that was never the case with the old FCP. Its just like the clock on my car - daylight saving happens here twice every year and the time has to be changed. I always need to refer to the manual. To my mind that is a crap user interface.
FCP Pro X has some nice new features. But its hard to justify this when everything else is so hard to use. Its like connected tracks. Why is that an improvement? I always start with an audio track from my master camera - because its on tape and runs for the whole take - but its impossible (or very difficult) to do this in FCP Pro X. If I have a jumble of clips and its not clear where they fit, I can't assemble them, in sequence on a separate track - I have to connect them, arbitrarily, to an existing track. And then undo that connection later. I have to rethink my workflow every time to try and fit in with FCP Pro X.
In an earlier life I was a software developer. The golden rule of applications in business was that you built your application to suit the workflow of the user. You could streamline it, but not change the sequence unless the business had made a decision to do that already. I wrote quite a few large applications for various areas of the business - I used them to make sure they worked, and I used the existing workflow. A user could come back from holidays and know immediately how to use the app to do their job. A new user could use the app without weeks of training. Its not hard to write intuitive software - but its impossible if you set out to impose a new workflow or method of organisation on a user.
Apple seem to have missed this altogether. FCP will always be a dog, for that reason alone. I have never used Avid or Premiere Pro, but I imagine no-one else has adopted Apple's upside-down way of doing things. That spells lots of training issues for anyone adopting FCP Pro X. And now since you have to work with colour grading apps, like Resolve, users have to work backwards for Apple and forwards for everyone else, in the same project.
After this project I am going to look seriously at Premiere Pro - but only if I decide I can't use Resolve on its own for everything. I have been an Apple diehard for 12 years after being a Windows guru for a decade before that. I am close to giving up on Apple. Having to buy Office was very difficult - but the Apple apps have been dumbed down (Pages) or were never up to the mark (Numbers). I can't use iCloud because it doesn't support half my material so I have Microsoft oneDrive which also goes against the grain. And I am running Yosemite which means crashes at regular intervals and reboots several times a day.
I am an Apple shareholder too. But I beginning to think they have lost the plot. I hope not.

How to understand the "New Item" icon at the bottom of the Project window

I'm trying to understand that small "New Item" box at the bottom of the project window better. I'm aware that when I bring video clips into my project, if I drag them to this box, PPCS5 will add them to the timeline. I partially understand the positive reasons for doing so, primarily that PPCS5 will correctly identify the type of video being brought into the project. I know that if I select all my clips and drag them to the new item box, that all my clips will be added to the timeline at the same time and all together on the timeline. There are many things I don't understand about it. If I add my clips one by one using the "New Item" icon, they will show up as separate sequences on the timeline. If you try to add another clip at a later time, can that clip not be added using the "New Item" box? One other question is what would be the advantage in putting clips on the timeline as separate sequences? And one further question is do you drag other items to this box besides video clips? Like music, and still images?

Dragging something to the New Item icon doesn't just add that something to a sequence. It actually creates the correct sequence for the something to be added to.
You do this once, when you need a new sequence. Anything else you want to add to that sequence you do by other means.

Feature Request: Modify Audio Channels from the Timeline in Premiere CC.1

Why have we never been able to modify audio channels once a clip is added to a sequence? I'm guessing there's a good reason Adobe has never had this feature. The lack of this feature is explicitly mentioned a few times in the audio section of the Premiere Pro CC manual, as if it's a benefit NOT to have it. But the benefit is entirely lost on me.
In my workflow, I synchronize my double-system video and audio before anything else. I do this in PluralEyes (and unfortunately I'll have to keep doing it this way, until PPr's sync on sound feature gets fixed—for me it's never worked).
Once PluralEyes has synched hours of footage and audio and placed it on a PLURALEYES GENERATED sequence, I import that sequence into Premiere. Note: Since I haven't gone through the step of creating a blank New Sequence, I don't get the opportunity to setup my audio channels the way I'd like in my sequence (i.e. Stereo recordings should occupy ONE track, not two. Typically these tracks come from a camcorder and are used for reference sound, or ambient noise at best, so I don't need them taking up precious real estate in my sequence).
Since PluralEyes doesn't merge my clips for me (or rather I don't want it to since I'm usually doing multi-cam sequences where I want to keep all 14, or so, tracks of audio), I have to go through the clips one by one and do a Merge Clip action once I've adjusted any minor sync issues, or determined which tracks I actually want to keep. But, and here's the key, at this stage I'm not yet 100% certain whether I'll use the nat sound or the wireless mic sound (separate audio recorder, etc). Furthermore, I don't really want to think about that at this point. After I've spent a few mind-numbing hours just ingesting files, sync and merges, I want to jump into the edit as soon as possible, before I lose all will to finish this edit. If I modify my audio channels right now, I'll lose the ability to make some creative decisions later on.
I'd like to start whacking out an assembly edit. And then after I have a rough program, I can start looking at which audio tracks (nat or double-system) I like better in each circumstance. This is where I become stumped that at this stage, I'm locked into whatever audio channels I've setup (or not) in the earliest stage of the edit, back before any media was actually on the timeline! It's at this stage, and usually only at this stage that I want to start Modifying Channels—FROM THE TIMELINE!
Does anyone else feel the same? If not, what is your workflow?
Feature Summary: Right-click on any clip, (master clip, sub-clip, merged, nested or otherwise) in the timeline and choose Modify > Audio Channels.
I've submitted a feature request, with a link back to this discussion, so please pipe in—especially if you want this feature.

Maybe its your specific workflow, asset mangement and use of a 3rd party application that runs you into an issue.
Take Pluraleyes out of the equation, I would imagine my workflow is the same as most everyone else. Find footage in the Media Browser. Import it. Create a Sequence and start editing. Use the Source Monitor to set Ins and Outs and then Insert the clip on the timeline.
At this point, if the audio needs to be modified, it cannot be done on the Timeline. The workaround, of course, is to Find Clip in Project; Modify Audio in the Project panel; then do a Matchframe to replace the audio clip. This works, but requires many steps per clip. Also, Matchframe in Premiere Pro CC is not reliable.
Introducing a new Modify Audio (from Timeline) feature as seen in the fantasy screenshot above would solve it.
I dont use Pluraleyse ...which I understand to be a synching aid...so I dont know the workflow it imposes on one .
Returning to Pluraleyes workflow, this issue is compounded by the need to Modify almost ALL audio. Every stereo track is separated and placed on two MONO tracks taking up precious real estate. This is not something Pluraleyes imposes. It is due to the way Premiere imports XML timelines. This would apply to sequences imported from Final Cut as well.
In this case it would be ideal to select both the LEFT and RIGHT mono tracks and choose "Modify > Audio Channels > Merge L/R Mono to a Single Stereo track." Ideal? No. I guess Ideal would be if Premiere would interpret XML files properly in the first place.
What actually is the issue with Premieres synch and merge workflow in your case?
Audio Sync in Premiere Pro doesn't work. Period.

In an HDV sequence can I "scrub" the timeline and record it via FW to tape?

In an HDV sequence can I "scrub" the timeline and record it via FW to tape?
In standard definition I used to be able to do this via Firewire to my mini-dv deck. But now I am working with the Canon Vixia30, an HDV camera. I'd like to be able to scrub the time line back and forth at varying speeds and record this scrubbing live (rather than doing it with Motion software.) Is there anyway to "record" this action, either onto tape or digitally, while maintaining the HD resolution?
If possible I'd like to figure out how to do this without buying extra equipment. I understand I could get a Matrox MO2 Mini box ($450.) to output the live HD signal, but then how to record the HD signal from the Matrox box? (my camera only has HDMI out, not in.)
Thank you for your input.

And if you capture your footage as ProRes (as I see discussed in another thread), you cannot output to HDV via firewire. It would be pointless. To go from a lossy format to ProRes to edit...then convert back to HDV. Typically people who shoot HDv never master back to HDV, as it isn't a mastering format.
And yes, the MAX is totally worth it. Compression times faster than RT (meaning less time to compress than the timeline is long...I did 90 min timeline in 75 min yesterday). Worth it? Depends how much your time is worth. TO me, I'd like to have the compression done in 75 minutes opposed to 3-4 hours.
Shane

How do you mark a section from the timeline to send to Compressor 4 using Final Cut Pro X?

I am trying to send just a certain piece from the Timeline to Compressor 4 using Final Cut Pro X and I can't figure it out. Please help!

jakelovesanna wrote:
The video itself is intirely 5 minutes, but the timeline goes to 24 hrs.
24 hours?
If you select the timeline and press Shift+Z do you see a lot of black space in the timeline? If so, you may have a huge gap clip (although I fail to understand how you achieved it). Click on it and if it can be selected, delete it with the Backspace Key (next to the = key).
Then press Shift+Z again.
If I've got this wrong, can you post a screen grab of your timeline?
Andy

Why does playback on the timeline lag on my premiere elements 9 project?

Whenever I playback my edit on the timeline, it starts off playing fine, but after a few seconds it starts to lag. I am using a macbook pro (2.4GHz intel core 2 duo processor, OS X V10.9.4), and was initially editing off a WD hard drive connected with a Firewire800 cable. I have shifted all my rushes and the premiere elements project file from the hard drive to my laptop, but that doesn't seem to work. Project settings and Clip settings seem to match, otherwise I wouldn't be able to open the project file anyway. I fiddled with some of the playback settings, but nothing seemed to work. I need to rush out a piece of work asap. Any ideas?

AT Romano,
Please see my actions taken regarding your questions below:
One of my questions was attempting to determine if the total duration of clips on the Timeline has any effect on this random playback issue.
Am I correct in assuming that you are saying that this Timeline playback lag can be seen even with only one 1 minute clip on the Timeline? If not,
how many clips needed on that Timeline when the Timeline content playback starts to lag?
The lag can also be seen with only one 1 minute clip on the timeline.
If you start a new project with a different video source or just some jpg photos do you run into this Timeline content playback lag after rendering of that
Timeline content?
NO, this lag does not occur with a new project with different video source.
Did you understand what I wrote early on about Premiere Elements 9.0/9.0.1 being a 32 bit application when run on 32 or 64 bit computer? Do you use the computer for programs other than Premiere Elements? I asked since you wrote
Upgraded the RAM. I'm now running on 2x 8GB of RAM.
A 32 bit system is typically characterized by maximum supported installed RAM = 4 GB and typically 3.2 to 3.0 or less of that being available. So, why the upgrade to 16 GB of installed RAM?
I guess I didn't quite understand the 32 bit system thing. But i kinda get the idea now. In any case, my computer seems to be running faster than usual even though it didn't solve the elements 9 lagging issue.
Just recap time....
1. Optimize the computer with free ccleaner for Mac run through
CCleaner - Download
Done.
2. Make sure that there are no pile ups of preview files, conformed audio, and conformed video files. At this time, how much
free hard drive space at the location where the Scratch Disks are directed?
Done. About 870GB of free HD space. This is an external hard drive.
3. Set Playback Quality to highest instead of automatic
Did this, but the lagging becomes worse. It freezes longer on certain frames.
4. Make sure video card/graphics card driver is up to date according to web site of manufacturer of the card
According to Manufacturer, graphic cards installed on MacBook Pros are already optimised by Apple during the installation.
5. If dual monitor system, disconnect one, use only one
I am monitoring only from my laptop screen. No external monitors.
6. Delete the Adobe Premiere Elements Prefs file...
Users/Libraries/Application Support/Adobe/Premiere Elements/9.0
I cannot seem to find this file.
7. Export the lagging Timeline content to an appropriate file saved to the computer hard drive. Then determine if the playback of the export
exhibits any lags.
After export, there are no lags.
8. Do you run into the problem with and without the antivirus disabled?
I have no antivirus installed. But i did try turning on and off the firewall. With the firewall on, the lag seemed to get worse.
9. For troubleshooting purposes only at this time, download and install the free 30 day tryout of Premiere Elements 12
from Adobe....If it works for you, then we can target version 9....If it does not work for you, then we can target your computer.
There is no Premiere elements 12 available for trial download. Only premiere elements 13. Have downloaded that and copied the project file into elements 13. The lag is still there, but not as bad. But, it is still there.
- Gold Pirate.

How do you move a sound clip in the timeline?

I have not had this problem before. I have put many songs into the timeline, and repositioned them. Today I pulled up a project and attempted to reposition a song to fit in better with the clip, and I'm unable to do so. I can't select the song, or anything else. Obviously I have set or locked up this track, and I can't figure out how to unlock if that is what I have done. I have 6 songs on that track, Audio track 2, and I can't reposition any of them. I can't even remove them from that track. What am I doing wrong?

Hunt, most of my music files, over 9000 songs, are mostly mp3 files and a few are wma, and because of copyright laws I wouldn't use them in a commercial project I'm working on anyway. When I am working on a project for a client I will generally use higher quality WAV files. This project was being done just to learn some new techniques, gain some more experience with PPCS4, and expand my knowledge with the program. I have this huge number of music files and styles to work with, so I can do a great deal of experimentation to see what different songs can do to the mood of the video.
As a test, I did put the exact same songs into the timeline on a different audio track. The problem track is audio 2, and I duplicated those songs on audio 3. I did the exact same editing. I faded them in and out the same as before. Split one song into 3 sections had parts of it come in and out over a video section of 9 minutes duration. They are working perfectly. I was just working on one section of that project a half hour ago, and I was still able to select and move each of the four songs on that track any way that I wanted to. However, the track just above it in that same timeline, Track 2, is still frozen.
Hunt, just a moment ago I solved my problem. Still not being that familiar with the program, two days ago I know that I was playing with all of the controls, and I obviously hit one of them without knowing one of its side effects. I hit the show "show track keyframes". I'm sure that you know it, but I didn't realize that when that function is selected, you can't do much else with the track but play with those keyframe. Even though I didn't have the track locked, in the traditional way, it was still, for all practicall reasons, locked. I unchecked that function and now everything is back to normal again on that track.
Something very simple, as many things turn out to be when you understand it. However, maybe someone else will make the same mistake, and my posting here will help them.
I will use your suggestions for using .WAV files. Thank you again.
Terry Lee Martin
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 14:29:37 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: How do you move a sound clip in the timeline?
Terry,
What is the purpose of using the .WMA files? I'm sure that you have a good reason, but they can be problematic, at best. I only use them as a trasfer medium, when I need to get a DD 5.1 SS soundtrack into Audition for editing. There, I break them out into 6 discrete .WAV files, edit in Multi-track Mode and then usually Export as the 6 discrete WAV's to be encoded to DTS, or similar.
If you do not have a compelling reason for using the .WMA, try PCM/WAV @ 48KHz 16-bit and see if the issues go away.
Good luck, and let us know how it goes please,
Hunt
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Audio is not showing up in the browser nor the timeline???

i have a question. i recorded a video and viewed it and the video and audio is working. when i imported it and it showed up on the browser the audio outputs were not showing up. also when i tried to dragged it to the timeline the audio tracks didnt show up either. what could this be?? i have a sony dvcam hdv deck in which someone used it and im thinking maybe they changed some settings on the deck?? help please!!??

The VU meter is the audio meter (see FCE 4 user manual from page 56). If a clip include any audio, this meter should move when clip is played from browser to viewer.
The camera audio should be 16 bit 48 kHz. You can use 32 kHz if you select the correct preset in Easy setup dialog box.
Did you see the link provided earlier for patch panel bay use?
The patch panel switch is the way to tell to FCE where (understand on exact layer) adding video and audio in timeline. If the audio switches are disconnected, the edit will insert only video. There is a contextual menu to reset the patch panel switch.
Michel Boissonneault

Navigating the Timeline from Movieclip

Hi there
I'm hoping someone can help me with this. I have created a
scrolling image gallery in Flash which works fine from the Timeline
(Scene 1). Now I am using it inside a movie clip called gallery I
need to know how to get it to load the images into the main loading
area now that it is within a movie clip. The code that makes the
images load into the loading area at the moment is this
on(press){
_root.the_entire_gallery.gotoAndPlay("pic5");
I'm assuming that now it is inside a movie clip I need to add
something other than _root. to get it to access the images but I
don't know what. I've tried _parent but to be honest I'm clutching
at straws as I don't really understand what it does.
Hope someone can help.
Thanks

Hi there
I have tried both the solutions you suggested without any
luck. Is there a way I can send you a copy of the fla and you will
be able to see how it is set up?
Perhaps a simpler example is the button inside the gallery
movieclip, this doesn't work from inside here either it has the
following code on it ...
on (press) {
_root.gotoAndStop("sketchbook");
...that let's it work from the main timeline but now that the
frame label "sketchbook" is inside the gallery movieclip how do I
get it to reference that because nothing is happening as I take it
_root. is pointing it to the main timeline?
I have tried on (press) { gallery.gotoAndStop("sketchbook");
I know it all works if I don't put it into a movieclip but I
want to have everything neat and tidy on the timeline. It would
really help to be able to send you the fla.
Thanks, Jo

Import and Export sections of material present in the Timeline

Hi,
I know it is possible with Premiere EL 11 to import and export titles.
I have an existing movie and am working on a new one. I wish to utilize part of what I created on the previous movie. Is it possible to copy part of the old movie and paste it into my new project being a different file? If yes, how to?
If not, then I start understanding why they sell EL for.
Thank you

If you wish to move the elements in the Timeline, separate, then you will need a ClipBoard Extender app., like ClipMate, to Copy the desired Clips, Titles, etc., then Open a different Project move the CTI (Current Time Indicator) to the desired location, and Paste. You cannot do that, without a Clipboard Extender.
If you are using the WAB (Work Area Bar) to Export/Share a portion of the Timeline, you will NOT get the separate elements, i.e. Clips, Titles, etc., but an AV file, with those written to the new, output file. Editing that output file will be tougher, as the elements are now all combined, and all Handles in Clips, etc., will not be included. If one goes that route, then MPEG would not be my choice, and I would go with one of the suggestions in this article: http://forums.adobe.com/message/4556586#4556586
Remember, with that output method, the Clips (Audio & Video) will NOT have any Handles, and Titles will be burned in.
From your comments, I think that you want the ClipMate (or similar) workflow.
Good luck,
Hunt

Can I call a specific time of the timeline in an advanced action?

Can I use the specific time of the time line to trigger an advance action? If I can what is the correct syntax to call the timeline information?
eg:
in a conditional advanced action
IF
Timeline - is equal to or greater than - 00:16
AND
Timeline - is less than or equal to - 00:20
ACTION
Show - Image 21
ELSE
Hide Image 21

Double post, see: Can you add Advanced actions to an image?
My list with system variables will not really help, I'm afraid. My suspicion (and yours in the other thread) is that the OP doesn't understand the design of the Timeline.

How do you change the timeline duration in Photoshop CC?

There seems to be 5 second limit on the duration of the timeline in Photoshop version 2014.
How can you extend the duration of the animation? There's a timeline window, but no "animation" window as mentioned in many of the help files.
How do you change the duration in Photoshop 2014?
I'm using Windows 8.1 as my OS.
Thanks.

Thanks for the reply, but my point was not about the lack of creating animations.
It seems that in Photoshop CC, you cannot change the duration of the timeline unless you click on the end of a clip and drag it out which will then give you more time. As the original post mentioned, you automatically get a 5 second duration unless you have a video clip that is of longer time. This all makes sense for videos, I understand that nobody (usually) wants to stretch video. Video by nature will extend the timeline based on how much footage is present.
Now take an animation scenario where you want to create something from scratch that spans longer than the default 5 seconds. There is no option!!! No document settings, nothing that will allow you to extend the timeline. I now have to click and drag each layer clip on the timeline to give it more time for the animation, one by one might I add (you can't even highlight multiple clips and extend them all at once, which is crazy).
So what does this mean? Well if you create a mockup of something with all of these intricate layers including backgrounds, copy etc. and you only intended to animate a certain piece for say 8 seconds, you'll have to extend each and every single layer clip in the timeline otherwise they will magically disappear and the only thing displaying is that which you have extended manually.
The reason why you need a document settings in the timeline is to prevent content from disappearing if something extends for a certain amount of time.
Frame by frame animations only allow for so much functionality, try to animate multiple objects at once with frames and go back and make a change to one part...
CS5 would simply show everything regardless if they did nothing on the timeline, it allowed you to see all of your elements present.
Again, I stand by my statement saying that the new timeline is flawed.

Understanding the Timeline

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