• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  FCP blade tool/ ctrl-v command

  Posted by Nicholas Vanvoorthuysen on April 20, 2013 at 4:39 pm

  Hello,
  I have a weird thing happening in a timeline:
  Using the shortcut ctrl-v to slice (with NOTHING highlighted/selected), it only cuts the audio. Usually I use it to slice everything at once OR a selection. This is really slowing down my workflow as I’m used to using this command.

  So, I’m going through footage and slicing, and I have to double-edit every cut, first the audio, then select the video clip and slice that above it over the audio edit.

  anyone had this problem before? Some weird setting I accidentally hit?

  Thanks.

  Nicholas Vanvoorthuysen replied 13 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
• 4 Replies

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  Daniel Sametz

  April 20, 2013 at 5:28 pm

  To cut you need to use b not v. Doble b cuts everthing in the vertical line not just one clip.
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  Nick Meyers

  April 20, 2013 at 10:12 pm

  “Some weird setting I accidentally hit?”

  probably Auto-select is turned off in the relevant video tracks.
  thats the tiny dark grey buttons left of the timeline

  Command Zero will toggle AUtoselect on all video tracks.
  Command 1-8 on specific V tracks

  Option Zero, OPtion 1-8 for audio tracks

  nick
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  Nicholas Vanvoorthuysen

  April 21, 2013 at 4:19 pm

  no, control-V cuts everything that the timeline marker is on without having to click the mouse. I prefer to use control-V over B because it’s faster for me to not use the mouse.

  My question was answered below though, the issue was that the auto-select was accidentally off for the v1 track. Now I can control-V slice til the cows come home!
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  Nicholas Vanvoorthuysen

  April 21, 2013 at 4:21 pm

  Thanks so much, that was the problem, auto-select.

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