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Adding content between markers
Hi,
I’ve been doing some ‘cut to the beat’ work and have been using the markers to get some sense of timing. It’s been a while since I’ve done this and have forgotten the shortcut to get content between the two markers. I am using the old go to marker 1, mark in, go to marker 2 mark out scenario, but I seem to remember there being an easier way. You had to place the playhead between the two markers, mark an in on your viewer then do a button press to fill the gap. Well, that button press is the one I’ve forgotten, any help would save me a lot of time,
many thanks
Enge -
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Enge,
You might be thinking of a few different operations lumped into one. Here’s what I can think of.
Using a REPLACE edit overwrites and entire clip in the timeline with footage from the viewer. This is a playhead-playhead edit, and the clip to be overwritten in the timeline is determined by the playhead position and track sourc-destination patches. Basically (all in one step), this edit looks down the playhead to the current destination tracks and deletes the clip it finds. It then looks at the viewer and places the frame of video that is in the viewer (at the playhead position, not the in point) into the now empty destination track in the timeline at the timeline playhead position. It then trims out the In and Out points of that single frame so that the hole left by the deleted clip is filled.
Using MARK TO MARKERS (control+A) places an IN point at the closest marker to the left of the playhead, and an OUT point at the closest marker to the right of the playheaad. So place the playhead between markers, press control+A, set an IN point in your viewer, and do an overwrite edit, which will be IN-IN (not playhead to playhead). FCP will automatically fill the marked region in the timeline with the new clip. Remember you can do this my marking and OUT point in the viewer too and backtiming the edit.
I’d say, regardless of whether you’ve placed a lot of beat markers or made a lot of edits on beat that you now want to replace footage between, the second option is best. The first is better if you know that you want part of a clip in the timeline, but don’t care how it edits in or out. But if want a specific in or out point, you can’t get that with the replace edit faster than you can with three point editing.
That’s all I can think of. If there is a hot key that performs and IN-IN replace edit and you figure out what it is, I’d love to know.
Best,
Ben
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[Ben Insler] “Using MARK TO MARKERS (control+A) places an IN point at the closest marker to the left of the playhead, and an OUT point at the closest marker to the right of the playheaad. So place the playhead between markers, press control+A, set an IN point in your viewer, and do an overwrite edit, which will be IN-IN (not playhead to playhead). FCP will automatically fill the marked region in the timeline with the new clip. Remember you can do this my marking and OUT point in the viewer too and backtiming the edit”
Bang! That’s the one, thanks very much Ben…
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