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avid-like sequence inserting?
A common way our editors work is to create mini selects-reels for each tape of footage, and then insert blocks of that footage into the program sequence. This is done by loading the selects sequence into the source monitor, and then inserting or overwriting as if it were a regular clip.
Final Cut’s nested sequences don’t work well for us because we don’t want to lose the clip boundaries when we insert the selects pieces. We don’t want a nested sequence, we just want a copy of the edits from the other sequence. Is there any way to force FCP to just insert copies of the clips as-is, without nesting?
One thought I had was to open up the sequences simultaneously and then cut and paste clips as needed, but the editors don’t like losing the use of the source window.
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Hold down the command button when inserting.
Michael Alberts
Ambidextrous Productions, Inc. -
Obviously Michael is capable of holding down those buttons with both hands…
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[owenywwg] “One thought I had was to open up the sequences simultaneously and then cut and paste clips as needed, but the editors don’t like losing the use of the source window.”
In FCP you can have multiple sequences open at the same time. They show up as tabs in the timeline. That’s where you can “cut and paste” into a new timeline.
Your question is a common one coming from “Avid Centric” editors. Once you figure out how FCP is approaches this process, there is no problem with integrating previous sequences into a final composition.
mark
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“Your question is a common one coming from “Avid Centric” editors. Once you figure out how FCP is approaches this process, there is no problem with integrating previous sequences into a final composition.”
This is true, but it also comes from an editor with tendonitis who wants to use the mouse as little as possible. Is there a key binding for switching tabs?
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Yes, you can hold down Shift+Command and drag from the source….
or like we did, go into you custom keyboard, type in “overwrite” in search, and map the button “overwrite sequence content” to your F10 key…. the same with insert.
I’m totally with you on this one. That is a great feature on Avid.
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I think this feature is actually smoother in FCP. I used to like source record mode in AVID when editing sequences into each other. Now I open everthing in TAbs and I “copy” paste in to new sequences. Just swithching tabs seems simpler now than going into source record mode.
Nesting is really nice for fast assemblies.
IN avid I would numver my sequences 001, 002, 003 etc and then just drag them over to the record window to do this, that was nice to, because you could restructure scenes just by changes 005 to 007 or vice versa.
Many ways to approach this one.
David
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