Re: My closer look at FCPX

[Greg Andonian] "Then I found a flaw in the new approach. I wondered what would happen if two favorite segments overlapped. Would they both still be accessible? How would X handle this? So I set a new in point in the middle of one of them, and a new out point a bit beyond the end of it.

When I hit F, the new favorite merged with the one it was overlapping, and they became one single favorite. I was really disappointed by this. What if you DID want to have two overlapping sections of a clip saved as individual favorites for some reason? or you wanted to save two versions of the same section of footage, but have one be longer than the other? "

Hi Greg,

It is possible to duplicate the clip in the event folder and apply 2 totally different sets of Favourites to the 'same' clip. Or to duplicate it twice etc etc.

This enables you to overlap your selections or favourites.

As I do not use FCPX to import files, but reference media on my drives, this workaround does not result in data being replicated.

I hope you are able to spend more time with FCPX, it took me a long time to reorient myself from FCP7, but I'm now really enjoying the time I spend editing with this program.