Editing to music in FCPX?

[Mark Morache]

Put your audio in a secondary storyline under your primary storyline. You can perform your audio edits and crossfades, and keep this storyline below the primary storyline.

This will need to be attached to something in the primary storyline. I’d attach it to my first shot, or perhaps a bit of black before the first shot.

Now you can to and make all of your video edits, and your audio will stay in place.

If it helps, you can cut all of your audio in the primary storyline, then once it’s perfect, you can easily select it all, and turn it into a compound clip, then right click and “lift from primary storyline”. Now you’ll still have your audio in it’s own lane, leaving the primary storyline open for your video edits.

G’luck.

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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.

Mark Morache
FCPX/FCP7/Xpri/Avid
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
https://fcpx.wordpress.com

[Charles Ferran]

thank you sir, thats what I ended up doing, the compound clip method seems to be best, still seems a little backwards but that might just be because I’m still trying to forget everything I used to do in 7 😛

Charles Ferran
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[Bret Williams]

It is backwards. Welcome.

[James Ewart]

yeah…first thing I do is insert a small slug (sorry gap) not storyline that I can attach things to that I don’t want to move or disappear.

I played with Imovie once and was irritated by the way I had to create little workarounds to get it to do what I wanted it do to.

Just a bit niggly innit?

[Dave Gage]

James,

I don’t believe this has been mentioned yet in this thread, but this is a very nice overview of editing to music and more precisely to the bar (they keep saying cut to the beat in the video, but they mean bar [4 beats])-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlImQGZFiaA&list=UU_q2DkCswQYJnfa2q_hjguA&index=2&feature=plcp

I prefer the method at this end of video where you essentially cut on top of a Gap Clip in the Primary Storyline. Here’s what I do:

1. Add audio to new project– Add audio file as Primary Storyline (initially).

2. Move music (“Lift from Storyline”) from Primary Storyline to a connected clip below, cut on a Gap clip– Right-click on the audio and choose “Lift from Storyline” and it will be moved below and add a gap clip in it’s place in the main storyline of the exact same length.

3. Use Markers to mark spots, then Blade on Primary Gap– play back your music and hit “M” on the keyboard where ever it makes sense to cut to a new clip. Once the markers are set, you can have the playhead or skimmer snap (use “N” to turn snapping on) to the location. Use Command-B on each bar or beat of gap clip where you want the video or photos to change (you can also just switch to the Blade Tool (“B”) for the cuts). This will chop up the “slug” into chunks.

4. Replace Gap segments with footage– Hover over the Gap clip segment and use “X” to select the gap clip. Set your In point on Event video clip and drag to Gap clip and choose “Replace from start”.
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The beginning of video shows a variation of this, but I like this workflow.

Dave

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