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Assist me in gathering a feature request to Apple
Hi. In all of these discussions, smart contributors have come up with a great idea and that is to be able to edit the contents of compound clips in the context of the greater timeline.
How would you like to see this done?
They have mentioned that instead of opening the clip in timeline, rather the clips expand (kind of like opening a drawer), make your tweak, and then close it back up.
I borrowed an idea from Adobe this morning that we could lock the viewer to the main timeline, open the compound in it’s own timeline. That way the viewer would show results from the main timeline (sort of like After Effects if you are familiar with it) allowing you to edit in context of the “final” picture and sound.
Any other ideas?
Jeremy
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Personally, I’d like to see them expand the capabilities of secondaries so they behaved more like compound clips, as I’ve mentioned before.
I’m not a big fan of having to dive into hidden drawers or containers to see what’s going on – one of the reasons I prefer working in Motion to After Effects actually. I think the whole AE precomp business is a major drawback and very clumsy.
In my view all interfaces want to be aspiring to (if not entirely emulating) the power of nodal systems where every relationship is potentially visible.
But that’s just me …
I much prefer what secondaries give mne in FCPX to what I see are the limitations of CCs – if only secondaries could have effects applied to them and allow for connected clips …
Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
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Thanks Simon.
That all makes really good sense.
What if the compound clip could just show you the stacked elements inside of it like a secondary? Instead of one thin clip, it’s more of a transparent “bounding box”?
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That would work for sure.
I just wonder whether secondaries don’t ultimately give you more power in terms of the way FCPX actually works – CCs are just (not very) glorified nests, whereas secondaries have all interesting added potential that comes from them emulating the functionality of the primary storyline. Plus they are already “open containers” of the kind you are describing …
Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
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[Simon Ubsdell] “I just wonder whether secondaries don’t ultimately give you more power in terms of the way FCPX actually works – CCs are just (not very) glorified nests, whereas secondaries have all interesting added potential that comes from them emulating the functionality of the primary storyline. Plus they are already “open containers” of the kind you are describing …”
Absolutely, Simon. Thank you and great ideas.
Jeremy
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what would be nice would be locking all edits (mark starts, blade…) to the secondary storyline like you can with tracks, this clicking in and out can be irritating as hell when using the keyboard
also why no mark play range and then trim to range on anything except primary storyline
but yes an expand compound clip would make it so much more useful
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If all you’re talking about is a feature request for compound clips, here’s what I’d like.
• Drag and drop of compound clips into the Event Browser.
• I would like to see markers show up in the filmstrip viewer for compound clips that have been opened from the browser in Timeline mode. In other words, open an event compound in timeline mode, place a marker on the clip. Then exit out and when you select that CC, you can see the marker in the filmstrip viewer.
• Be able to right-click a compound clip and have a “remove sub-clip limits” type of command so that you can expand the size of a compound created in the timeline without having to open it in timeline mode first.
Let me know if any of those are confusing.
Andy
https://www.timesavertutorials.com
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