applying a Blade cut to multiple markers on a audio track

[David Roth weiss]

Hit the “B” for blade several times, not just once, and it cuts across multiple tracks.

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[Steve Cornell]

Yes, I know that trick. Thanks. I’m trying to research wether its possible to make about 50 marks on a audio clip in the viewer and then at that point, apply a cut to all of those clips in one move.

[Steve Eisen]

It’s called an assistant editor if you don’t want to do the tedious process your self. Yes it’s a tedious process and that is the role of an editor. A simple one click to solve your problem would be a lot to ask the FCP development team.

The add edit and double blade tool are your solutions.

50 cuts in an edit is small.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Matthew Bradshaw]

I can’t quite understand why you are marking rather than just “ctrl v,ing” in the first place as an earlier responder pointed out.
Matt.

[Steve Cornell]

Hi Matt,
I do recognize that Ctrl-V is a great shortcut if used in the timeline. I’ve zoomed in all the way on the audio clip and have waveform turned “on” so I’m able to see the dead spots.

However, I do prefer the VIEWER for this kind of cutting as the waveforms are magnified and much easier for me to make precise marks as to exactly where I’d like to cut. I was hoping this technology worked in the viewer is all I”m saying.

[Matthew Bradshaw]

Oh I got you now. It might help if you make the track nice and big in the timeline but I agree that the viewer is nice waveform-wise.
Matt.

[Bret Williams]

In any case forget the blade tool. Just press shift m to just to next marker, the ctrl v to cut. Should be able to do hundreds of these in a few minutes.

But just make the track huge in the TL and turn on the waveform and use ctrl v.

[Steve Cornell]

Thanks Bret! That is by far the fastest way I’ve tried yet. Having to make hundreds of cuts is part of my weekly workflow so your tip will save my wrist a lot of hours of clicking!

I’m glad I posted.

Steve

[Michael Gray]

this is a good solution, almost!

so i have a bunch of markers on a video clip that i’d like to razor blade at once. it sounds like that feature isn’t implemented, and this is a good substitute. however, because the markers are on the video and not the timeline, whenever i ctrl-v to make a cut, the clip that was just cut becomes selected, the remaining video with markers is de-selected, and shift-m does jump to the next marker.

know any way around this? maybe there’s a way to transform video markers to timeline markers?