Combining projects in FCPX

[Noah Kadner]

Unfortunately that’s more of an FCP7/Premiere Pro workflow. You cannot place projects into other projects.

Instead create one new Project timeline, then step into each Project and copy/paste contents into the master project. In the future, you want to use either Favoriting to trim to original media down to the sections you want. Or do all the trimming in a single master Project timeline.

Noah

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[Craig Seeman]

Just thinking out loud but might one make empty compound clips one could edit into and then you could combine them in a Project.

Given that he’s already created project would going into each and Select All and making Compound Clips result in having each project as a Compound Clip which can then be dropped into a new Project.

It would be neat feature if you could just select the Project in the event and make it a Compound Clip.

[Mark Corrigan]

Hi Noah

Thanks! Solved the problem. It seems a bit clunky, though. I will be ripping home video dvds in the future and trying to improve upon them and possibly spice sections. Should i be following a different work flow and brining them into FCPX differently? Thanks Mark

[Noah Kadner]

Yes- as I suggested favoriting and keywording are the equivalent in FCPX to the workflow style you’re after.

Or Compound Clips, though to my eyes this is clunky because you lose direct visibility to the original media with a Compound Clip on a Project Timeline.

Noah

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[Craig Seeman]

[Noah Kadner] “Or Compound Clips, though to my eyes this is clunky because you lose direct visibility to the original media with a Compound Clip on a Project Timeline.”

You can break them apart once in the new project.
I find having the Compound Clips gives me something to go back to, to edit individually.

It’s kind of like how I edited “segments” to a show in legacy. I’d edit the separate segments if I needed to make changes within the segment and use the master project to edit whatever was needed between the segments.

[Mark Corrigan]

Hi Noah,

I see you already mentioned, “favoriting” and “keyboarding” in response to my question. I am not sure about what those are (so I am doing some homework on MacProVideo to see if I can figure it out). Under these circumstances do i import the movies (apps 20 mins) as separate events and then go through and edit into a project?

Thanks

Mark

[Noah Kadner]

Many different ways to organize in FCPX. I would suggest continuing studies first. The power of this app lies in its organization and tagging capabilities but they are best learned through training.

Noah

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[Phil Lowe]

So let me offer a different scenario…

Let’s say I have 200 clips and I want to place them all on a single timeline, in order, to be able to “speed review” them by simply skimming the entire timeline.

Now let’s say I want to bring that timeline into the viewer, set an in & out to cut into a different timeline that I’m working on. Can FCPX cut from one timeline into another? The reason I ask is because this is a fairly typical news editor’s workflow, and the station for which I’m working just “upgraded” to FCPX. And if it can’t, what’s the workaround for achieving the same thing?

[Jeff Kirkland]

I think that would be a good case for using a compound clip to hold your original clips.

Of course, you could always just skim through all the clips in the browser without doing anything more than importing them, and give you more options for sorting on the fly – but dumping them into a compound clip would also do what you want.

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[Noah Kadner]

The key to unlocking FCPX’s power is these early organizational operations happen in the browser not on the timeline as they did in 7. Learn about keywords, favoriting and rejecting and you’ll be leveraging its strengths.

Noah

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