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Is this a FCP Bug??
I’m using: FCP 5.0.4
I have a time line of 100 edited clips. I am trying to change the duration of each shot to 14 frames by highlighting all the clips then control clicking on the highlighted clips and choosing “duration” from the pull down menu and entering 14. But sometimes it won’t take my entry of 14 frames and it suggests a different duration, like 04:22 — this technique has worked for me in the past…
I’ve tried stripping away the audio and making sure there’s nothing in the timeline that can interfere with the new durations…
anyone??
Jim Dodson
Jim Dodson
Quad 2.5 gig Mac – OSX
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5 Replies
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This only works for still images. It does not work for video clips. It’s not a bug. It’s the way the application is designed.
All the best,
Tom
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy” DVDs
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But I’ve had it work for video clips!! And it’s so amazingly useful when it works — I once did a one hour video and I highlighted the entire time line and changed every clip to 1 second duration and it worked perfectly (I think that was FCP 4.??)
Even today with 5.0.4, it works about 50% of the time with video clips. But I can’t seem to figure out why it works sometimes and not others….
Jim Dodson
Quad 2.5 gig Mac – OSX
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All the clips might have to be the same duration to begin with. Then you can highlight them all at once and change all the durations. If they aren’t the same duration it seems to subtract one frame less than the shortest duration from the longest duration and that’s the new duration it shows in the box. If you hit enter it then modifies all the clips by subtracting that shorter duration (the one frame less number) from them all. Then your shortest duration clip is 1 frame and all your other clips are the same amount shorter. I’m not sure how It would play out in FCP 4 but this is how it works in 5.04. Hope this helps.
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I just tested it on FCP 4.5 and it’s the same way.
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Thanks for doing that math, Matty C. — do you see any workaround without making all the clips the same length??
My workaround was to download Keyboard Maestro
https://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/and I wrote a hotkey macro which invokes edit–duration then type 1. thern hits enter twice then moves the mouse to the right — and I assigned the whole thing to F2 so I can just hiot F2 a bunch of times —
It worked — but I do miss the functionality of highlighting a bunch of clips and just typing in their durations once for all of them…
Jim Dodson
Quad 2.5 gig Mac – OSX
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