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Cutting back and forth between 2 long clips
Hello Everyone! I am a newbie to these forums as well as FCP HD, so please forgive me if this seems like an obvious question.
I have just switched from a Media 100i system to FCP HD and am experiencing the learning curve, while I also try to unlearn a lot of the hotkeys engrained in my brain.
One cool thing about Media 100 was that it was easy to cut back and forth between two very long clips (hour-long) without having to actually trim the clip on the “upper layer”.
Is there a setting that I am missing that can help me accomplish this in FCP? My brain is fried from reading the giant manuals.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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5 Replies
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Hi,
it’s easy to cut between two long clips. Open one, set in out points, drag it to the sequence, open another in out and so on. Where`s the problem? You can also have two layers on clip on top, one underneath and then cut out chunks.
Rainer
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Guess he means the multicam feature which comes with FCP 5.
Just press a number on the keypad and he’s done.Greetings
Uwe -
Well, up to this point I have been pulling both into the timeline as that is how I it is done in M100. But I am having trouble just swithing between the 2 in the timeline, and thus I have been cutting out chunks of the upper layer to make the transitions work.
I am basically trying to find a way to jump back and forth between two clips already laid into the timeline and synced up. I am sure this is an easy task but like I said I am still trying to “unlearn” a lot of what I know as I try to learn the new program.
Thank you again for your help.
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“cutting chunks” out is the way it’s done in fcp 4.5… sorry:(…. in fcp 5 there is “multicam” which would allow you to do it on the fly by pushing a button.
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there is a better way than “cutting chunks”
keep your 1st 2 tracks as your source clips.
make sure they are level sync at the head and tail
option shift drag ONE of them up to a new track, this is your edit track, so make it the target track.now when you want to switch, mark an in point in the timeline,
with the playhead parked anywhere after the in point,
double click either of your source clips into hte viewer.
then simply hit F11 to do a “replace” editthe new shot will replace the existing one from hte in-point onwards.
a note about replace: in/outs in viewer have no effect,
in/outs in timeline do.
in/outs in timeline take precedence in defining the cut, next defining thing is clip boundaries:working like this, it’s good to have gang mode set to “Follow”
that way you can scrub in hte viewer, or timeline, and the other window will follw your playhead position, so when you do the replace, your shot is still in sync.cheers,
nick
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