• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Move Clips in Timeline to Specific TImecode Location

  Posted by Daniel Hybiak on September 7, 2008 at 4:35 am

  Hello everyone,

  I’m aware of how to shift clips or selections forward and backwork by typing timecode values within the timeline, but my question is:

  1) How to do move clips (or a selection of clips) to a SPECIFIC timecode location (i.e. I want to move the beginning of a selection to 01:00:12:10, or something like that) using the keyboard

  and

  2) Any way of quickly moving the beginning of a selection in the timeline to the current playhead position?

  Thank you for your time. I’ve been trying to figure this out, and I’m pretty positive it can be done, just couldn’t find an answer.

  – Dan

  David Roth weiss replied 17 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Tom Wolsky

  September 7, 2008 at 5:30 am

  1. No.

  2. The E key.

  All the best,

  Tom

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  Daniel Hybiak

  September 7, 2008 at 6:09 pm

  I’m aware of the E key as the extend edit shortcut, but I was referring more to being able to literally ripple the in point of the selection to the playhead’s position without changing the actual edit points on the clip (or clips). So basically, only the timecode location of the in and out points are changing, not the length or content of the clip.

  Also, as far as moving clips to a specific point in the timeline based on timecode, my initial belief for thinking this was possible came from the fact that it seems feasible and logical to do so, and furthermore, from this passage in the Apple Final Cut Pro 6 manual:

  “You can also type a regular timecode value to move the clip to that location in the Timeline.”

  Is it just me, or doesn’t that seem to imply that moving to a clip to a specific timecode location seems possible!? =D
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  David Roth weiss

  September 7, 2008 at 6:29 pm

  I believe that actually is intended to refer to the following proceedure: copy or cut the clip(s), enter the timecode to move the playhead to that location, and paste or paste insert.

  David Roth Weiss
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