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Display multiple timelines in FCP
Is it possible to display more than one timeline at the same time in FCP? I have two sequences that I would like to compare cuts to and see both timelines at once?
Thanks
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10 Replies
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Put each sequence on a different video track and do a split screen.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Director-At-Large
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group -
Sure, just tear off the sequence tab and viola.
You can also open multiple canvas windows.
What’s the plural of canvas? Canvii? Canvusses?
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Ok, how does one tear off the sequence tab?
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Are you saying to copy the video track from one sequencewhich has all my cuts onto a V2 track in my second sequence? Also, how does one do split screen?
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First, you grab your monitor with nice big protective gloves on and be sure to get a firm grip. Then pull your hands in opposite directions really hard. It’s easy, trust me.
If you open both sequences, you will notice that each sequence has a tab in your timeline window. Let’s say it’s seqeunce1 and sequence2. grab the sequence2 tab, click your mouse and hold button, then drag the sequence away from sequence1.
Jeremy
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click and hold on it and drag it out of the window. Ditto with bins and bin tabs. Ditto with just about every single multimedia application out there.
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Of course! Thank you guys so much. Still, how do you get a split screen image. And is it possible to get split screen on my broadcast monitor?
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A split can be done by cropping the top layer. Open a clip and set the left crop to 50. Copy clip, select all the rest of the clips and paste attributes but only select cropping. This assumes you have no other cropping info in the sequence casue if you do then you might want to nest and then crop the nest.
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you can also duplicate your sequences and then combine them into a multiclip, which will let you see them as a 2 up in the viewer and whichever you deem better by choosing it, by itself in the canvas.
Or you can export quicktime reference movies to your desktop (uncheck the “Make Movies Self-Contained” and then just open them both with the Quicktime player, choose “Play all movies” from the File menu and you can see them both side-by-side that way, too.
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JG
I always thought it was canvi no?
“I like video because its so fast!”
Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.
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