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Group / Gang Clips for slipping
Re: one of my reels is several frames out in different place, e.g 2 frames The first 10 mins 5 frames the next ten mins.
Hello,
Hope you can help me ive been searching the threads and dusting off the manuals but i havn’t resolved my problem yet. Is there a way to group/ gang clips in FCP? I have several clips that I want to slip from one tape that is intercut on the time line with many others. using search ive selected all the relevant clips from that reel. Is there a way of grouping/ ganging clips so i can slip different groups of the clips together. As it stands if I search then command select the sections i want, when i go back in to slip another selection from that reel, obviously it selects them all again.
Any help would be gratefully received.
Joe
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8 Replies
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Got me confused.. could you ask your question a different way? Slipping multiple clips at the same time is what it sounds like you’re asking but I can’t quite tell what you’re after here.
There is multiclip editing, there is a gang feature too, but I don’t understand what you’re really trying to do.
Jerry
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Hi Jerry,
Sorry my previous post is a little jumbled. Essentially what im looking for is an option that if I command clip several clips, I can then set them so they act as one. so if I where to click on anyone of them they would all highlight and I could slip them as a group.
Thanks for the reply. Much appreciated. Below is a detailed short novel of the initial problem that forced me to search for this function. Joe
The background to my initial Problem:
I had a project that took over and had to recapture and reconnect master clips in order to output a full res output (i used their emailed project file). The problem was that one of the low res QT clips they worked off had dropped frames, but final cut had read as a continuous TC. The clip was heavily cut into the main sequence, but I found it actually fell into 3 sections on the sequence. For simplicity lets say every 10 minutes on the sequence on that particular reel I had a frame difference, say first 10mins was 2 frames second 10 minutes was 3 and the last 4. i used the search function to isolate the reel on the sequence, then I could easily slip. I could of course correct one segment, but then when I search again it brought up all of them including the corrected ones. I figured if there was a way i group/gang them into 3 sections then i could easily turn them off and on for slipping. I had to get the project out, so eventually i just raced through and slipped them according to the offline. But ive used simular group/gang functions in other editing aplications but I can’t for the life of me find it a simular tool in FCP.
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I’m afraid there’s no way to do this in FCP.
FCP assumes you’d never capture media with dropped frames… there’s a setting in fact to stop and retry the capture if this happens. It’s error created by whomever captured the media.
Jerry
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Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
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Okay, thanks for your posts though very much appreciated. Just out of interest though outside of my problem there isn’t a function to group a set of clips as segments say if I was happy with a section of a sequence and wanted it to act as one clip just for the purposes of drop and drag around the timeline with the arrow tool? You have answered already I know in relation to my problem, but I just wanted to double check there wasn’t a simple fix keeping a segment linked for quick drop and drag. thanks again, im always amzed and thankful how helpful people are on forums like these.
Joe
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Did you try nesting your clips? Select your clips in the timeline and under the sequence menu and select nest items. It creates a new sequence in the current sequence and puts the new sequence in your project window.
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Hi Dave,
Thanks for your post. that works but I was more thinking of an option where you could group a section of clips and maintain there cut points and position. Then turn them off again as a group if you wanted to move them individually.
Thanks again.
Joe
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Nesting allows for this. If you double click a nested clip in a sequnece, it opens the sequence that is the nested clip… if you change that sequence, it’s reflected in the nest.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO, CD’s
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Hi Jerry,
Thanks that’s really helpful, that’s the sort of thing i was after.
Thanks again,
joe
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