Editing from a sequence

[Jane Anderson]

Hi James –

Thank you so so much! You are correct and very sharp in my book 🙂

All that bloody copy and paste! Your suggestion is exactly what I was looking for and made a huge difference – thank you again.

In the pre-set for US keyboard, it’s command F9 and command F10.

I feel so much better about FCP editing now.

Jane

[Jes Benstock]

If you load any sequence into your source monitor
You can edit it straight into your new edit timeline using
Command F9 (or Apple F9)
This will edit the original clips into the new edit timeline – rather than the nested sequence
This makes the cutting of a sequence into another behave just like on the avid
FCP call it “Insert Sequence Content”

You can also map this onto your keyboard as F9 if you want

I found this tip at
https://www.avid2fcp.com/articles/the-changeover-challenge

All best

[John Carpeteer]

James, you are pure forum brilliance. You just saved my day.

[Tom Wolsky]

Different strokes for different folks. Editors you’ve have come from Avid might like this method. Most editors trained in FCP do not work like this. It doesn’t really work efficiently and has been buggy in some instances, like trying to do a split edit with this technique. You’re much better off learning how to use this application rather than trying to make it work like another one.

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 4 Editing Workshop”

[Ron Lindeboom]

Christian,

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Accept the words you want, and like a cherry pie with an occasional pit in it, “spit out the pit” if you feel you don’t like the advice that people give. But if you want to take pot-shots at people, you will find your account closed. It’s our policy.

Ron Lindeboom
creativecow.net

[Keith Hamm]

Jane,

I learned FCP in 2003 before more recently Avid, and now my Avid professional experience has cross-pollenated how I work in FCP. My keyboard arrangement is even Avid style because frankly it’s a WAY more efficient style to work. Rather than giving you a RTFM response that can often pervades the cow, I will make these practical solutions to a VERY VALID way of working:

Customize your keyboard so that your V and B keys are “Insert sequence content” and “overwrite sequence content” respectively rather than the troublesome FCP defaults. When you cut with your sequence in source side it will cut in the material rather than a nested sequence.

Another way of working that no one ever mentions on these threads is to have your selects timeline open above your record timeline (having more than one timeline open at the same time is a great feature of FCP.) You should even have your selects Canvas viewer open in a separate canvas, tabbed together, same as your sequences tabbed. Basically now you will have 3 groups of viewers. One source, one tab of selects timelines, and one record. I mark an In and Out on my selects sequence, hit option A (for select in to out), copy and paste. There are two useful pastes: overwrite paste (command v) or insert paste (shift v).

Until FCP adds proper timeline to timeline editing (which I have a good feeling is in the next version) this will have to be your workaround. Email me if you want my keyboard settings and I’ll send them to you.

[Daniel Loyd]

The irony in all this to me is that while I use “insert/overlay sequence content” often, I don’t see it as a “FCP vs. Avid” issue. I see it as cutting from my daily rolls!

In my current case, our show has over a hundred small clips of Broll per shoot. It makes sense for us to form multiple “Broll” sequences and just scroll through them when looking for footage. It also allows us to screen our content numerous times during the process; and I’m a believer in the old adage that the more you see your footage, the more things will pop out of it. Systems are fast enough these days that there’s no perceivable bog.

Different strokes, different folks. I’ll be cutting on a Vista avid this wednesday.

-Daniel

Sincerely,

Daniel Loyd
Editor, Producer
https://DanielLoyd.com

[Tony Graynoth]

A big thank you to Keith and Daniel.

This was the big thing tripping me up coming to FCP from Avid.

So many shows now are using tapeless cameras which generate thousands of clips. Its so easy to just chuck them all on a timeline and scrub through it as you would a long tape.

Also our technical people at work have advised us not to change any clip names so the whole ‘organising in the bin thing’ just is not going to be practical for me.

[John Galliver]

Thank you to all you guys for that great advice.
The “editing-from-a-sequence” thing has tripped me up for a while. Why didn’t I google it earlier?!
Thanks again…
J

[Mark Morache]

I love it when I discover exactly what I need on the cow. That’s why I’m posting to a two-year old thread.

When I cut on Avid, if I had 2 or three raw tapes with sequential time code, I’d put the entire clips into a sequence, and make the sequence timecode match the clip timecode. That way I could put all of my raw tapes into the source viewer at once, find all my timecodes by typing them in, and never have to hunt for clips or change the source. It was uber-quick.

I’m so glad FCP anticipated that workflow with the Overwrite Sequence Content function.

I’ve memorized the keyboard for insert and overwrite sequence content. With my HDV camera creating 100s of individual clips, it’s still the best way to scroll through your content to find just what you need.

I’m trying to make my fingers learn the default FCP keyboard shortcuts. They exist for just about everything you would want to do.

I do however use the buttons for my customization. I have learned to love the buttons. I now have buttons for insert and overwrite sequence content living on my timeline. How awesome is that?

Mark Morache
Evening Magazine
KING-TV Seattle
FCP, Avid, Sony Xpri