Basic Edit Questions
by Gary Childress
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Dec 3, 2004 at 1:54:43 am
Okay, I know this is bonehead for this forum but the manuals and books I have on FCP4 are not easily answering my question. I am a long time linear and AVID editor doing pretty well on my first big Final Cut project but I can't figure out a couple things.
1. All the documents I have explain how to slide a clip in the sequence but when I try to slide a whole group of clips at once it simply slips the in-points of each clip and keeps the media locked to the same spot on the timeline. I am just trying to move a block of clips without sliding the entire timeline that follows. This may be in the manual but I am having trouble finding it.
2. Also, is there a way to slide a clip to the playhead with a keystroke (and not move everything after it) without having to turn on snapping and drag the clip manually.
Re: Basic Edit Questions by Robert Garry on Dec 3, 2004 at 4:00:41 am
1. Use the Arrow tool (Shortcut - A) and lasso the clips you are looking to move. This IMO is easeier than using the Trim tool.
2. As far as a keystroke command to do this I don't there is one. What you could do is ripple delete using and In and an Out point thereby "pulling" all of the material downstream forward in the timeline.
Good Luck
Bob
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Re: Basic Edit Questions by Gary Childress on Dec 3, 2004 at 5:51:45 am
Thanks Robert,I appreciate the reply.
The best way I can see to do this is to copy the group of edits, move the play head to the new trim point and paste. That way you don't have to drag to snap points. It's just my newbie opinion but when you drag groups of events to snap points it seems to try too hard to snap to too many points making it hard to get it where you really want it. I am not going to be an AVID troll on this site, but this is a very easy and usefull thing to do on AVID and I am surprised that by version 4.5 Apple still hasn't added such a basic function.
As to the other function, my bad, AVID doesn't do this either. I was thinking of an After Effects feature and confusing it with AVID.
Re: Basic Edit Questions by Robert Garry on Dec 3, 2004 at 6:21:20 am
When you are dragging and have snapping enabled it helps tremendously to have your playhead at the point you wuld like everything to snap to. FCP will snap to the playhead before it snaps to anything else in most cases. Just an FYI.
Good Luck.
Bob
Dual 800 G4
Aurora Igniter
Latest OS/FCP
Gig of Ram
DSR-1800
UVW-1800
Adaptec 39160 SCSI Card
Seagate Cheetah SCSI Drives
more bells and whistles.....
Re: Basic Edit Questions by Gary Childress on Dec 3, 2004 at 5:27:23 pm
Thanks Richard,
The info about snapping first to the playhead was very helpful.
I have been turning the snap mode on and off and have mapped it to
an easier key for me to hit without looking at the keyboard.
Thanks again.
Re: Basic Edit Questions by mishka on Dec 4, 2004 at 5:33:36 am
1. In FCP-speak to Slide clip B in the sequence of clips A-B-C is to change the Out point of clip A and In point of clip C without changing neither In nor Out point of clip B. Apparently in this operation clip B keeps its duration but moves along the timeline. A and C don't move. This operation works on a group of clips too but only when using keyboard shortcuts or numeric input. The clips must be highlighted.
The only operation that changes In or Out point without moving clips along the timeline in FCP is Roll and for it to work the cut rather than clip must be selected.
2. Highlight a clip or a group of clips. Cut. Paste. It will paste at playhead position.
One awkward thing about it is actually highlighting the clip from keyboard. I couldn't find anything better than X to place In and Out on the timeline at clip boundaries and Option-A to select In to Out. In situation when clips are on several tracks Auto Select controls what's selected. If you happened to have Canvas window active when you want to highlight a clip on the timeline Command-A will do it.
