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Matching framing disallows me to subclip?????
Hi, this has been bugging me for awhile now and I’ve decided to post about it. Many times I find myself wanting to make a subclip of a clip I have in my sequence, say to export to After Effects or something. But I want a bit of extra footage, so in my sequence I double-click the clip and it appears in the viewer. I understand that if I change this clip’s In’s and Out’s they will affect my clip in the sequence – so I use shift-F to match frame to the “original” clip. But what drives me nuts is from this clip I can’t subclip, if I mark and IN and an OUT and hit command-U it doesn’t work, I don’t get a subclip for some reason. If I search for the same clip in my browser, find it and double-click it and do the exact same thing shortcuts, IN, OUT, command-U – it works. Why doesn’t it work after I matchframe??
I’m using FCP 3, does this issue perhaps not exist anymore? I want to use this same technique to pull stills out of my sequence, double-click, shift-F, IN, OUT, command-U. Any thoughts would be great or if anyone understands why a match-framed clip behaves different than one straight out of the browser – that would be nice to hear/understand as well, thanks,
jason
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4 Replies
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as to why it’s desigend like that, i dont really know.
but it is, and it hasnt changed in FCP4.FCP4 HAS changed Shift F to “reveal in browser” which might help you a bit.
(option Apple F is now reaveal source clip)but rather than updating, or hunting for the clip in hte browser,
quickly drag the clip from the viewer to the browser.
open it again in the viewer, and Apple U.i’ve always got a “work” bin in the browser just for doing things like this.
nick
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Stay away from sub clips in Final Cut Pro HD they are horrible horrible horrible and will drive you mad. Especially if you came from Avid. FCP treats them as MASTER CLIPS. It all goes back to the terrible media management that FCP has.
My recommendation is to use markers to make your “subclips”, at least that way you can always find where the subby came from so adjusting things is a snap. Remember you can load markers as if they were subclips right into the viewer or even the timeline.Let’s hope subclips and all other things to do with Media management are fixed in version 5.
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Thanks very much for your feedback. That’s too bad it works like that, I think I use subclips fairly safely – I usually only make them for stuff I want to export. Thanks again,
jason
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“I usually only make them for stuff I want to export”
then you dont need to use them at all!
exporting from the viewer uses in/put points
if you’re batch exporting from the browser, simply check the “use in/outs” box, or columnnick
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