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After a year has perception of FCPX changed?
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[Jeremy Garchow] “HS“Don’t even know what “linked slection off” is” Say what??? Dude, you’ll love it.”
Just tried it and yes it’s very handy. Here I’ve been manually unlinking for years and this was under my nose all the time.
Just to elaborate, once I’m past the assembly stage I never use linked clips. Even with linking on, after you cut a clip into different multicam angles only the first cut stays linked to the longer audio underneath. I can’t imagine a scenario where it is useful to keep that sort of L cut linked, and it’s a PITA when you want to add a video dissolve and now suddenly you have an audio dissolve as well, or when you want to change audio sources and only later you realize you’ve changed video sources for some clip 20 seconds down the timeline without realizing it.
Anyhow, thanks for the tip, one less thing I have to do.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Herb Sevush] “Anyhow, thanks for the tip, one less thing I have to do.”
No worries, glad you might find it useful.
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[Herb Sevush] “Just to elaborate, once I’m past the assembly stage I never use linked clips. Even with linking on, after you cut a clip into different multicam angles only the first cut stays linked to the longer audio underneath. I can’t imagine a scenario where it is useful to keep that sort of L cut linked, and it’s a PITA when you want to add a video dissolve and now suddenly you have an audio dissolve as well”
Just to keep with Jeremy’s FCP7 tips: There are a series of shortcuts that I use all the time with linked clips. If I select the edit point of a linked clip (selecting both audio and video edit points) but I only want to add a video transition, I use the shortcut CTL+SHIFT+1 and FCP applies the first video transition that exists in your favorites folder to the edit point. Since it’s only a video transition, no audio transition is added. You can also replace the “1” with Q, A, or Z to place the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th video transition in your favorites folder at the edit point.
How I often use this: I have 3 basic dissolves of various lengths in my favorites folder (10 fr, 25 fr, 45 fr) which I use all the time. I name them: video 10, video 25, video 45 accordingly. Because FCP organizes favorites alphabetically, I know that video 10 is the top video transition in my favorites. So to add a 10 frame dissolve, even with a linked clip, I hit CTL+SHIFT+1. To add a 45fr dissolve, I hit CTL+SHIFT+A (3rd favorite).
There are also similar shortcuts for favorite audio transitions, video filters and audio filters.
Andy
https://www.timesavertutorials.com
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[Andy Neil] “Just to keep with Jeremy’s FCP7 tips: There are a series of shortcuts that I use all the time with linked clips.”
Andy – I appreciate the tip, but since I can’t see the advantage of having the clips linked, these options are not really for me.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf
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