Double length of stills already in the timeline

[Tom Wolsky]

Select the stills, right-click and select duration. Change the duration and they should all change. Funky things can happen in some instances, but it does work with stills under normal conditions.

All the best,

Tom

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[Arnie Schlissel]

[Michael Lynch] “I’ve got about 100 stills in the timeline that I’ve added motion effects to and now the client decides he wants each still on screen for twice as long. Any quick way to do this?”

I know of no quick or easy way to do this, but I wouldn’t be surprised if after you did, the client then asked for them to be half as long. Or some longer, some shorter.

So whatever you do, keep copies of each version! Good luck!

Arnie
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[Michael Lynch]

Tom’s suggestion worked.
Unfortunately the motion timings did not adjust as well, so the motion is complete halfway through the duration, so I will still need to go in and tweak them, but better than reimporting and starting from scratch.

If anyone has ideas about the motion settings I’d love to hear them.

Speaking of motion settings, I’ve tried to set up a workspace that keeps the motion tab separate from the video and audio tabs, but every time I load a new a clip it has the motion tab attached to the other two so I need to drag it off or click on it to bring it to the front. This gets old after 100 clicks. Anyone know of a trick to keep the motion tab up front when loading a clip into the viewer?

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[Tom Wolsky]

You should be able to copy the image and use paste attributes which scales to time. Not sure if this will work with your animations after you’ve changed the duration. Might need to set it back to the original size, copy them, extend them, then paste attributes.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop”

[Arnie Schlissel]

Well, this one I can help on!

Set the ganging in your viewer or canvas window to “Open”. That will automatically open whatever clip is on the lowest auto-selected track your playhead is parked on in the viewer. Whatever tab was open last will be left open.

Arnie
Now in post: Peristroika, a film by Slava Tsukerman
https://www.arniepix.com/blog

[Michael Lynch]

Thanks guys.
No go on the copy and paste Tom – it will take the parameters from the first video clip and apply that to all. But thanks to your help I’m halfway there anyway.

Arnie – i suppose my question was really more geared to keeping the motion tab separate from the other two so I can look at the video clip as I adjust the motion parameters. If the motion tab stays up front I still can’t see the video clip adjustments – the canvas doesn’t work well if I’m trying to set a position prior to a dissolve. The canvas shows the preceding clip but the viewer shows the actual clip being manipulated.

MacPro 3.0GHz 8 Core – 4GB RAM
FCS2; AE; PS

[Steve Eisen]

Two ways you can adjust your keyframes.

The first is double the image from your timeline. Select your motion tab. Go to your outpoint. Drag the key frame to the outpoint. It’s tedious but it works. One day, hopefully soon, FCP will allow you to move all your keyframes at once like in AE.

The other way is much faster but takes precision on your part. Press Option T (Toggle Clip Keyframes) Drag the blue dot to your outpoint.

You can always create and save custom window layouts in FCP.

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[Steven Gonzales]

You might play with exporting an XML. I’ve used this and a text editor to global replace changes, then re-import the XML, and the changes were made.

It might help to set the first clip to the new parameters, then you can compare that to the later clips.

[Tom Wolsky]

I wasn’t suggesting you copy it from one and paste it to all of them, but to copy from one animation and paste it back to itself.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop”

[Michael Lynch]

the option -T worked great for my purposes.
Thank you all so much. Everyone should keep this tip in mind – maybe send it to Larry Jordan for his next newsletter. One of those features we don’t use often enough that we tend to forget it’s there.

MacPro 3.0GHz 8 Core – 4GB RAM
FCS2; AE; PS