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Workflow for FCPX editing sports videos?
With the single timeline in X and no multiple sequences, I am looking for an efficient way to edit a sports event (lacrosse), which starts with about 150 clips and an hour of video. Before I made a full game sequence, then pulled out clips of interest to a new sequence.
With FCPX, I have made full video, duplicated, and then tried to cut out the uninteresting clips. It is sort of a one way process, since I don’t keep intermediate edits. Editing in the event folder initial doesn’t help since I need to get the whole flow of the game, at least initially.I do like the magnetic timeline, the media management and the audio editing, but a struggling to find an efficient way to cut the project down to size. Once I go from an hour of video to 10 minutes worth it goes fast and the voice over works well enough that I don’t miss sound track pro.
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Hi Claude,
I too am getting used to the new workflow of FCPX, and have been doing some cutdowns of games. I have been selecting all the shots and dropping them in the sequence timeline, and then cutting out the fluff there. I don’t know if you are shooting/syncing multiple cameras, but that may add a small level of difficulty to the process. I have been making “dulicate sequences” of certain sequences as I edit (sequence library) so I do have intermediate edits I can go back to if I need to. You might consider this “duplicate” method for going back and getting your highlight shots… I do love the speed of FCPX for projects like this.
David Decker
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Try using keywords.
Skim through your clips in the event browser, select the range of the good part of a clip, and apply a keyword. You can use cmd-K, or if you have a keyword collection created for your selects, just drag and drop the range of the clip onto the keyword folder.
Once you have highlighted all the good parts, you can select the keyword folder, and only your good bits will be visible. You can then select them all and drop them in a timeline.
Keywords are very powerful.
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Hi Claude,
we edit a lot of sports. From free-ski events to football games.FCPX is about 2-3 times faster than FCP7.
first of all i recommend to change some shortcuts. I have “Trim to Start”, “Trim to end” and “Trim to selection” as keyboard shortcuts “1”, “2”, “3”
second I recommend to shoot the time as timecode and have someone writing down the scenes that are important. that helps to cut down a football game (2,5 hours) in about 20 minutes.if you have no written script:
If you are in one-cam-mode just lay your shots down and skim through the timeline. you can either hit “1” and “2” to shorten the clips or even better select the good pieces (selection-tool “R”) and hit “3” to trim the rest of the clips away.clips with no content can be deleted by hitting “c” (selects clip without clicking on it) and then delete.
with the magnetic timeline the clips will fall in place and with little practice you will skim through a game very fast for the first rough.
then lay down your voiceover and fine-tune again.In football for example you select with “R” from the snap to the catch then hit 3.
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Thanks, I will give the shortcuts a try.
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Thanks David. By saving “sequences” in FCPX I assume you mean saving a project by duplicating the project and then continuing to edit then duplicated version.
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