This area is designed for those little quirky things in Final Cut Pro that caught me out and had to go research, this is the solution(s) in simple, non forum understandability...hopefully!
Managing large projects:
It is an interesting concept, when you think that these days an NLE would support large projects with multiple edits.
If you are like me you make multiple copies as you progress through your edit.
After experiencing crashing for no apparent reason when outputting to tape, copying and pasting the current sequence into the same project and making QuickTime Reference files, to name a few...
Looking up
Creative Cow forums the conclusion I cam to from everyone's posts was when working on large projects, whether a feature film, television series, etc
- Keep your Media / Clips in one project
- Keep your Old Edits in a separate project from the one you are currently working on.
E.g. Make copy of sequence, move old one to "Old Edits Project" and delete the old version
from the current Project.
- Note, close the Project "Old Edits" so Final Cut Pro does not use these files in its resources.
Output the correct audio channels:
This one caught me out when I was trying to put for channels of audio back to tape and of course we find this problem out when we want to put our program to tape and not before.
- Go to Sequence > Settings...
- Go to the last tab called "Audio Outputs"
- Select the number of Outputs to be "4"
- Keep the Grouping as "Stereo"
- Click "Ok"
Now go to Tools > Audio Mixer
You will see four audio tracks, but Final Cut Pro defaults the output of all audio tracks to tracks 1 & 2. Audio tracks 3 & 4 have to be 'patched' to audio tracks 3 & 4 not 1 & 2.
Follow these instructions on each track separately, so 3, then 4.
Control-click track 3 > Outputs > change to 3 & 4
Control-click track 4 > Outputs > change to 3 & 4
If you need to pan your tracks left and right according to your requirements.
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