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disabled Auto-dragging clips after cutting clips?
Hi!
I think I have disabled the option of letting the clips auto-drag themselves back or into place when cutting/splitting a clip.
In other words, after using the blade tool and splitting a clip up and deleting the selected clip, the rest of the clips won’t move back and attach themselves into the rest of the clips. It is so annying when working on a project!
Hope that make sense? ☺
Please see the video I uploaded on WeTransfer If you want a better understanding. Would really appreciate it!
Video – https://we.tl/t-Igm53H4hJK
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3 Replies
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Hey Philip,
The behavior you’re seeing is normal – connected clips only move with the clip they’re attached to in the primary storyline (unless they’re grouped into a secondary storyline).
To get where you want to be, you first need to get that music track out of the primary and get your footage into it.
1. Select the music track, go to the Edit menu, and select ‘Lift from Storyline’. This will lift the music track up, and leaves all of your footage connected to a Gap Clip.
2. Drag the music track below the gap clip
3. Select your video clips that are attached above the gap clip
4. Go to the Edit menu and select ‘Overwrite to Primary Storyline’Doug Metz
Dalton Agency
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Hey Doug,
Thanks for replying. I was meant to say that I want to ENABLE this auto-dragging tool not the other way around ☺ So what you are saying is that i might have the clips in the wrong storyline? To make it clear, i want to make the clip automatically snap to the other clips.
Thank you!
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[Philip Nidler] “I was meant to say that I want to ENABLE this auto-dragging tool not the other way around ☺ So what you are saying is that i might have the clips in the wrong storyline? To make it clear, i want to make the clip automatically snap to the other clips.”
Yes, I understand what you’re trying to do. You haven’t disabled anything – you have a fundamental misunderstanding of how FCPX works, but that’s easy enough to overcome. Some additional training would be a really good idea, and will make things move quicker for you in the long run.
Your music is in the primary storyline, which is fine if you know when and why you might want it there, but generally speaking, you’ll want your video clips in the primary storyline… you can create secondary storylines by selecting connected clips and grouping them, but again, you should know when and why you’d want to do that, and the ways that secondaries are different from the primary.
My earlier instructions will get your edit back ‘on track’ (Ha!), and the magnetic timeline will then work the way you think it should. ☺
Hope this helps!
Doug Metz
Dalton Agency
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