Snap tool
by Jack Sewell
on
Apr 16, 2008 at 3:45:59 pm
Hi,
this isn't really a question about the snap tool, I'm not quite sure what to call it.
When I finish an edit for an event I end it with a montage from all the footage. I start this by going through all the footage on the arrange page and making little cuts of the pieces that I want to use for the montage. I know that I could make these edits from the window that you use to view all your loaded footage, but I find this quite fiddly.
I then delete everything on the arrange page, leaving the cuts for the montage. I then have to go through the pain staking task of moving them all together for the final montage edit. This can take anything from 30 mins - 1 1/2 hours if theres a lot of footage.
My question is if there is a tool which snaps all the parts on the arrange page together. That would be mega mega mega, and would save me about 9,000,000 years.
Re: Snap tool by Steven Gonzales on Apr 16, 2008 at 4:43:22 pm
You can get better answers on this forum if you use the proper names for Final Cut windows. I don't know what you mean by the arrange page.
Are you referring to the timeline? If you are going through the timeline, and cutting out the parts you don't want in the montage, you are probably selecting those parts and hitting delete.
If you hit shift delete instead, then the gap created will close up during the delete.
You probably should spend some time on the Final Cut Basic forum, so that you can get to know the proper nomenclature.
Re: Snap tool by Steven Gonzales on Apr 16, 2008 at 7:01:32 pm
Now that I've saved you 9,000,000 years, you definitely need to get familiar with the Final Cut Pro tool palette, because it has a lot of useful time savers.
Re: Snap tool by Jeff Carpenter on Apr 16, 2008 at 8:03:28 pm
Well, Shift-Delete if you're on a laptop.
If you're on a normal Apple keyboard, you can use the other delete key. The one that's over next to the 'end' key. It does the same thing as shift plus the regular delete does. Using one key is easier than two.
The laptops don't have that key, though, so in that case knowing shift-delete is still useful.
Re: Snap tool by Tom Matthies on Apr 16, 2008 at 9:39:50 pm
Place the timeline cursor in the gap between the clips and hit (Close Gap) and it will close the gap between two adjacent clips in your timeline. Pretty fast when you get a rhythm going.
Tom
