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I have always lived with this FCP problem and I just wanted to make sure I’m not doing the wrong thing here.
Let paint the scenario
I have a 5 or 15 min business feature with interviews clips, several cuts, narrator track and music bed (so the end product is a fairly intense timeline with many clips). If i were to slowmo or speed up one clip the middle of this timeline why does the whole edit from there on wards ripple down thus throwing most things out of sync?.
My current work around is to move the clip to the end of the timeline, apply the speed change and then reinsert into the correct position.
Secondly if i double click on a clip that contains video and audio in my bin it goes to the viewer window where I can then adjust the ins and outs. I can then drag the clip to my timeline. Question… is there a way from here to only select the video to go to the timeline and disregard the audio?. I know in premiere there is a select button that allows you to choose the video alone or the audio. My current work around is to lock the audio tracks so only the video goes to the timeline.
I have checked the archives but haven’t found anything
Any thoughts
Richard
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2 Replies
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The speed change thing is a problem for many people. Your solution is one. Another is to going to the beginning of the clip in the timeline and then use Cmd-Shift-F to match back to a new copy of the media from the hard drive. Mark your In point, do your sped change and then edit the shot back into the timeline however you like.
That’s what the patch panel at the head of the timeline tracks is for. Here you can switch on and off the tracks you want and reassign video and audio to whatever destination you want.
All the best,
Tom
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD
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On the speed thing you have another option which I am using more and more out of frustration. AVid style was sort of nice because you marked a shot’s in and out, you render the new clip with the speed you want. Like Make freeze frame does witha still image and AVID crreates a new “speedclip” This is not the case in FCP.
BUT
To takes Tom’s thing one step further.
Match the shot
Mark the in and out.
Use fit to fill by dragging the clip onto the canvas window.This method does not effect timeline duration and you can easy modify in’s and outs in the Viewer until you have the speed you like.
David
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