Exporting only a portion or section of your timeline in FCPX

[Paul Figgiani]

Rudy – send to Compressor (Share/Send to Compressor). Then set in and out points in the Preview Window.

-paul.

[Manfred Kraus]

I guess “compound clips” are what you are looking for.
Izzy made a good tutorial for this: https://www.izzyvideo.com/final-cut-pro-x-tutorial/17-compound-clips-in-final-cut-pro-x/

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[Jeff Neria]

Has anyone figured out how to do this or conclusively determined that it just can’t be done without compressor? I watched the video posted by MK MK, but once you get the section you want packaged into a compound clip, I still don’t really see how to export just that clip.

I need to break up a timeline so that i can have a 3.5 hour video span across two dvds.

After finding a breakpoint, then breaking each section into a compound clip, it wasn’t immediately, or eventually, obvious how to export just the selected clip. So now i have compound clips, clip A and clip B. I copied clip B into another project hoping i could just split the first project into two, klunky for me but workable.

The problem with that is that I need to burn in timecode, so when i copy clip B to the new project, the timecode generator starts fresh in the new timeline with 0. I can’t figure out any way to make the timecode generator start with where it left off from clip A.

Any ideas? In FCP7 i think the setting was in the timeline settings and possibly also in the effect properties itself. In X i see no way to do this.

[Matt Surf]

I’ve had the same problem and, although far from ideal, I’ve taken to cutting and pasting the desired sections into separate projects and exporting from there!!

[Steve Connor]

[Matt Surf] “‘ve had the same problem and, although far from ideal, I’ve taken to cutting and pasting the desired sections into separate projects and exporting from there!!”

That’s what I do, it’s not exactly a big deal to create a separate project for it.

Steve Connor
“FCPX Agitator”
Adrenalin Television

[Jeff Neria]

The cutting and pasting would work for me to, except that I need to burn in timecode and there is no way to create an offset ( for the 2nd and subsequent projects) with the built in timecode generator. And last i’ve tried and heard, the generator created in motion does’t work for 24 fps media.