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Making SUB CLIPS just like Premiere (or at least easier)
Hello All,
So I’m in this class at school and we work on Final Cut, which i think is an awesome NLE, HOWEVER, some things, like an absence of duration tool for both audio and video AND the inability to take in and out points from the slug window and drag them back into the bin are ridiculous. Do i just have to make a folder in the bin and then drag the clip from slug window with in and outs.
Help would be appreciated, and apologies if this has been answered, however as more people become mac users, due to school more than likely, i feel apple should really emulate adobe on this one, or they are going to lose cnees to premiere being available for the mac, cause adobe like msft, isn’t pround and will take what’s useful (pen tool)
thanks………………..sorry about the rant
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[Dwight Spitz] “AND the inability to take in and out points from the slug window and drag them back into the bin are ridiculous. “
You can do this. Double click a clip into the Viewer, set an In/Out point, drag the clip back to the Bin.
Now FCP retains all the original media to that clip so it will still be all the media, but the In/Out will be what you set in the Viewer.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
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thanks for response, hopefully and intelligently this will be allowed an infinite number of times
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[Dwight Spitz] “hopefully and intelligently this will be allowed an infinite number of times”
It is, but it’s a horrible workflow.
I’m assuming you’re digitizing long rolls, like entire tapes. All you need is for the master clip to be thrown away or corrupted and you’ve lost all your subclips too. You’ll need to re-digitize the entire master roll.
The best workflow is to log your shots first, digitize second.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
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No yea, I hear you on logging, i feel logging is great when your in charge of the content exactly. However, if you doing something i like to call RCP or recontextualized content (promotion) all the time, the “footage” is already determined in size, therefore subclips are needed in order to highlight key elements. For instance, this project i’m working on right now, is more or less a multimedia essay that i’m using in conjunction with microsoft/mac word 08.
the workflow for better or worse is one i’m used to from plowing through these things with premiere. my work is on youtube, WOMP2007
if i were capturing footage from a camera, in other words, being professional, i would ONLY log in and outs first, that works best and is most organized, but since i’m trying to figure out the copyright dilemma of existing content spun differently, i need to make sub clip of larger clips with ease, its an essential component to the linguistic editing i do with multimedia.
thanks for your help a lot though, and i will read you blog
Richard Altman
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Have you considered making subclips from the larger media files? By loading the clip into the viewer, you can set an in/out point and then by hitting Cmd-U you create a subclip in the browser. This will function as its own clip without multiplying the amount of storage you use. It might be a useful workflow when using larger chunks of media.
Alan
Alan Smith
Media317Check out my blog – https://media317.com
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