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Subclip Question
I have been cutting this project for a while now and I digitized the tapes whole (as opposed to logging and capturing) and worked with them that way – I never split them up into smaller interview clips. I’ve assembled some sequences with all the clips named and organized this way. We’re bringing an additional editor on to the project and she asked that I organize everything a little differently – break the tapes up by interview (sometimes a few interviews are on a tape). Anyway, I figured the best way to do this was to subclip the tape and name the subclips by the person who is the one being interviewed. Done and done. The problem is, the clips in the sequences I’ve cut still reference the original tape and make no reference to the fact that I’ve since made a subclip that that particular clip is now a part of (if you do a matchframe or double-click the clip so it shows up in the viewer and the clip name hasn’t changed in the sequence). Is there a way for me to make the clips in the sequences I’ve already strung together reference the new subclips I’ve created instead of the original clip?
Thanks!
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[Elizabeth Czyzewski] “Is there a way for me to make the clips in the sequences I’ve already strung together reference the new subclips I’ve created instead of the original clip?”
No. However, there is an alternative to subclipping that might be helpful to you in this situation.
If you place a marker at the head of each interview in the big master clip you will notice that FCP automatically creates separate entries in the browser for each of those markers under the original in a dropdown. Each of those can be named however you desire, and can also be accessed by right clicking on the main entry, which will bring up a sub-menu of all of the markers by name. You can select any one of them and be taken immediately to that marker in your master clip. And, they all reference the master clip rather a separate subclip. It’s a pretty cool way to log interviews.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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Elizabeth,
The right click thing I mentioned above does not work with these markers as I sated. So, forget that one, you’ll just have to load into the viewer by clicking on the items. But the other things I mentioned work well.
David
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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