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baffled about doing a specific edit type
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[Don Smith] “However, I normally just double-click the audio part of the clip and that expands the clip (fast. don’t have to take hands off the mouse) and simply drag on the end of the audio which will now move independently of the video. Fast L or J cut. Then just double-click the audio to make it join the video again.”
I hear that.
I think in one of the ramblings I mentioned a double click.
For me, personally (and it’s just me), what I don’t like about a double click is that it’s one clip at a time, and double clicking serves multiple functions. If you double click a cut, it opens the precision editor, if you double click a compound, it opens the compound in timeline, if you double click the video part it does…nothing. 🙂
Similar to Brett’s shortcut of expanding everything, I like hitting the shift-] or shift-[. This expands the clip AND selects the edge. I wish there was a way to select the video only edge as quickly, so right now I resort to ‘Shift-[‘ and then ‘[‘. This is why it would be so cool if you could hit one key command, and FCPX automatically splits each clip and adds a 5 frame audio fade on each side. If you need more or less, you could adjust it from there. I edit dialogue frequently and use tiny little audio cross fade overlaps everywhere (I’m sure everyone does) and having a quick way to start this process would be really cool.
As another tip, there’s a command where you can expand the clips that only have splits, if you’d like that sort of feature.
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[Jeremy Garchow] ”
As another tip, there’s a command where you can expand the clips that only have splits, if you’d like that sort of feature.”
We’re all getting a little tired of your “elitist” shortcuts here 🙂
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[Steve Connor] “We’re all getting a little tired of your “elitist” shortcuts here :)”
I’m sorry. I’ll go home now.
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Jeremy, if you and I had faced each other for a noon showdown in the middle of the street I think I would be dead in the dirt. I thought double-clicking the audio part of the clip to make a J or L cut was fast, but I like the Shift { or } and it might be faster. Put another notch on your mouse. 🙂
In my defense, most of the time I only want to J or L the audio on one clip and usually not both at the same edit. Still, I like that Shift { or } and I see the Shift – Backslash works as well.
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[Don Smith] “Jeremy, if you and I had faced each other for a noon showdown in the middle of the street I think I would be dead in the dirt.”
Bah!
We’d be sitting in the middle of the street avoiding horse dung, drinking coffee (or whiskey, or whiskey infused coffee) and discussing the merits of finding efficiencies.
I think there’s great opportunities to use double clicks.
What this shows is that FCPX has multiple ways of going about performing certain tasks and it’s not as rigid as some make it out to be. 🙂
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I’m for double clicking every time. Real editors like shortcuts co a lot of them still have their roots in online no?
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[James Ewart] “Real editors like shortcuts co a lot of them still have their roots in online no?”
I feel like this is a loaded question. 😉
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Good golly, how can anything be faster than option+drag? My left hand lives on the cmd key for the most part, and my right hand is generally on the mouse. Option drag. Done. No double clicking, no expanding, etc.
Don, in your method you have to expand, drag, and then I assume drag the other since you can’t drag the audio edit point. Why I still don’t know. Or do you just leave the overlap?
In truth, X has made my work better BECAUSE of it’s downright lame J and L cut methods. I tend to finesse the audio much more since I can’t put a simple audio crossfade on I end up with a much better asymetrical cross or overlap then fade situation. And I can also tweak to the 100th of a frame for simple audio cuts.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “I like hitting the shift-] or shift-[. This expands the clip AND selects the edge.”
Hi Jeremy, I just tried this and I can’t get it to work. Is there some trick to it?
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[Dave Jenkins] “Hi Jeremy, I just tried this and I can’t get it to work. Is there some trick to it?”
Playhead has to be on the cut, unfortunately.
I have sent feedback about this to Apple because it would be nice to be able to invoke this (and other trimming commands) when the playhead is not exactly on the cut.
For instance, if you have a clip selected and the playhead is in the middle of that clip, it’d be nice if you hit shift-], and the right audio edge of that clip is expanded and selected.
I got in to an “argument” about this will Bill Davis earlier (surprise!) but there are times when using these commands that left is right and right is left, meaning you have to hit the “select right” button to select the audio edge that is now situated on the left of the cut.
If you like these commands, I’d suggest sending feedback as well.
Jeremy
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