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Freeze Frame slows down incoming clip
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Trim.
What would the crop function have to do with retime?
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OK. Sometimes it switches to Ken Burns, which does a slow creep on the hold segment. This will alter the segments going in and out of it.
All the best,
Tom
“Final Cut Pro X for iMovie and Final Cut Express Users” from Focal Press
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Coming in 2012 “Complete Training for FCPX” from Class on Demand -
Option drag to copy doesn’t seem to work in FCP X. It was part of my workflow in classic. Oh, position tool maybe? And can you do it with transitions? Can you make transitions start/end on edit? So many questions…
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You can Option drag transitions to copy them. No end or start on edit transition control.
All the best,
Tom
“Final Cut Pro X for iMovie and Final Cut Express Users” from Focal Press
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Coming in 2012 “Complete Training for FCPX” from Class on Demand -
Hold option. Click and hold clip, drag up.
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[Tom Wolsky] “You can Option drag transitions to copy them. No end or start on edit transition control.”
and remember, if your clip is a connected clip, must be in secondary to have a transition.
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Ok, got it now. Know why it wasn’t working for me? Muscle memory. Obviously I hold down shift as well, which would make perfect logical sense, no? In both FCPs shift keeps things from moving left or right. But of course in X it seems to break the option thing. Which there’s no reason for. It should hold the duplicated clip in place.
So, I option drag and it duplicates. I make sure it says +00 so it’s in the right spot. But it’s ALWAYS about five frames to the left. Baffling. It visually lines up perfectly until I let go of the mouse. WTH?
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Too bad. I’m now constantly adding a dissolve, then moving it back by half it’s length. And if I change the length, I now have to calculate the amount I’ve changed it, then move the dissolve by half of that to keep it’s start point or end point in place.
I’ve been using FCP since version 1.2. It was a edit ready app. Did more than Media Composer. HIgher quality too if you consider it was native DVCam while everyone else was compressing DVCam via component to AVR 77 or 2:1 in Avid. But that was my one big gripe then too. We had to wait until version 2 to get start on edit dissolves.
Funny thing is if you drag it to a secondary, or add a dissolve to a connected clip which then becomes a secondary, it adds the dissolve at the start or end. Not on the center. So where’s the consistency there?
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[Bret Williams] “Know why it wasn’t working for me? Muscle memory.”
Yeah, FCPX does some things differently.
[Bret Williams] “So, I option drag and it duplicates. I make sure it says +00 so it’s in the right spot. But it’s ALWAYS about five frames to the left. Baffling. It visually lines up perfectly until I let go of the mouse. WTH?”
I don’t seem to have a problem with this.
If it doesn’t seem to be working, you can can always match frame then add a copy as a connected clip.
Place playhead a beginning of clip, hover over clip in timeline, use ‘c’ to select it, hit shift f to match frame, hit q. Very quick and accurate.
Jeremy
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[Bret Williams] “Funny thing is if you drag it to a secondary, or add a dissolve to a connected clip which then becomes a secondary, it adds the dissolve at the start or end. Not on the center. So where’s the consistency there?”
Yeah, it does some things differently.
You can always add a gap to the secondary storyline and dissolve from the gap to the clip in the secondary.
You can add a gap in one of two ways, use the position tool ‘p’ to drag the clip in the secondary to make a gap.
Or you can add a gap to the primary (option-w), and move that gap to the secondary.
The magnetic timeline will adjust to adding a gap and taking it away.
I know, its a bit of a workaround, but it will allow a center dissolve if you need it.
Jeremy
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