Decide where to paste as connected

[Bret Williams]

Why not paste it at the end of the timeline and then drag it above where you want.

[Michael Garber]

Unfortunately there is no way to do that. Definitely submit it as a feature request. I want to be able to do that, too.

I second Bret’s advice. If you have to place all the clips above the timeline and need to remember your position, just add a marker where you need to paste the clips. Then move them all over to that point once you’ve pasted to the end of the TL.

Michael Garber
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[Nick Toth]

Select the clips you want to copy. Make them a compound clip (Option G). “Option Drag” the compound clip (which creates a copy) to the place you want it. Then break apart both compound clips (Shift Command G).

I use compound clips all the time as a way to move around large amounts of clips without them getting “rearranged”.

anickt

[Daniel Bernard]

Thank you all for you help and comments.

For the paste at the end and Compound clips, those are both very good advice, and I actually do both in some situations. I was hoping there’d be a way to do that without having to work around the software.

Thanks again

[Carsten Orlt]

Hi Daniel,

Out of curiosity: what do you need to do, and can’t, that forces you to do the ‘workaround’ of pasting as connected clips in the first place?

Cheers
Carsten

[Bret Williams]

When I break apart multilayered compound clips in this fashion, they don’t interweave back into the sequence correctly. They suffer from the same pasting problem. Though usually repairable.

[Ronny Courtens]

Daniel,

I would be very interested to know why you have to use this workaround as well.

As to your paste issue, try this:

Put an Adjustment Layer on top of your entire edit. Then copy/paste as connected. Do all the copied clips get pasted as connected clips above the Adjustment Layer now?

– Ronny

[Daniel Bernard]

While I did not use and adjustement layer, using a filler clip (for me it’s a QT of the offline), seems to do the trick.

As for you curiosity, it’s all about roundtripping FCPX – Resolve.
I work on the online and the grading of a 45 minutes TV program. The offline sequence I receive consist to:
Several hundred cuts (around 900) with alot of speed ramping (around 100), several tiff images (couple hundred occurences), Hold frames too, hard mattes and ProRes4444 overlays clips and, finally, titles.
As you can read, it is quite a heavy project to handle. I use the Copy-Paste as connected clip technique for quite a few things. But it’s basically to deconstruct and timeline (or project if you wish) and building it back again. For example, tiffs, mattes, titles, Hold, and still images don’t go to resolve. So I need to put them aside and be able to bring them back on again. For another example, I need to copy all speed ramp to a new project, bake the speed ramp in and then bring those clips back into the timeline, since the speedramp seems to drift both, when it gets to Resolve and when it goes back to FCPX afterward.

I always manage though, I’m always just curious to ask around if there are some ways to improve the workflow. FCPX is still a relatively young software, therefore there are still ways to be discovered.

Thank you,

Daniel

[Ronny Courtens]

Glad it works for you.

We often add an adjustment layer before we add subtitles to a complex timeline, or when we need to paste multi-layer graphics above an already complex edit. The adjustment layer prevents any new items from dropping between existing stacks of clips or lower thirds above the Primary, and it keeps our timeline visually organized.

– Ronny

[Andy Neil]

[Daniel Bernard] “Hold, and still images don’t go to resolve. So I need to put them aside and be able to bring them back on again.”

Can you explain how the copy/paste as connected accomplishes this for you? I’m having trouble visualizing. Are you just creating a copy so you can remove the tiffs, mattes and things from the original project and then drop them back in? Don’t your copied as connected clips end up in Resolve when you export?

andy

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