site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: pro-apps-dev@lists.apple.com Hi Rainer! Hope that helps. Regards, Helena On Oct 29, 2007, at 3:07 PM, Rainer Standke wrote: Hi Helena, hope this one is going to make more sense... Thanks, Rainer _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Pro-apps-dev mailing list (Pro-apps-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/pro-apps-dev/site_archiver%40lists.ap... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com I've drawn a picture to try to illustrate the relationships of the media delay and in/out in the context of multicliips and multiclip angles. pastedGraphic.pdf The first angle clip shows each multiclip angle clip, as with any clips, can have an in and out indicating which portion of the media show be used in this clip. So now that we see the relationship to media, I'll leave that level of detail out of the next angle for clarity... The second angle clip shows then how you can line up each of these angle clips in the multiclip. The second angle will be black from the beginning of the multiclip for the duration specified in mediadelay after which, the second angle clip will be displayed. (You can see how it doesn't really make sense for the media delay to be negative since one could simply mark a later 'in' on the clip to achieve the same result.) Now on your specific question, Syncing by in point (synctype 1) means that all the in points of each angle clip are lined up at the beginning of the multiclip. In that case I don't think you should have any media delay. A great way to understand these values better is simply to create the desired multiclip alignment in FCP, then modify something (like the in point of one clip) and make another multiclip, then compare the XML for each one and see where they differ. When I create a multiclip using synctype one I find that the clipitems in the individual angles have an in (45 in the attached example). Now that I know what the mediadelay does I can't quite see how the 45 factors in, or how it was derived. Can you shed some light? <Archive.zip>