gluing two clips together

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

“Gluing two clips together” is called “Editing”.
When you edit, you “glue” lots of clips together.

Why do you need two clips to become “ONE”?

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

“Nesting” will “marry” any number of clips into a single “item”.

Edit your clips to the timeline the way you want them.

SELECT all of the clips you want to “nest”.

Hit “option-c” and click “OK” in the dialog box that will open.

Now you have a “nest” that you can move as a single “clip”.

But, Nested sequences have their own set of “rules” and can’t be treated exactly the same as individual clips.

So, as I asked, why do you NEED to “glue two clips together”?

[Ted_kazear]

mostly going back and adding scenes to music videos, i have fast paced edits and when inserting new scenes i found it troublesome to use transitions into the new material, not enough room for effects to grab onto, also when you cut a clip you can go back by using undo, so I was wondering it cant be that far fetched to edit a clip back together, and hey chief there’s lots of reasons it would be beneficial to be able to do this,

I come from a background of mostly audio editing, and lets say for instance Logic pro audio , you can merge midi and audio clips, and we can use that the same way in video , here’s what you would benefit from it,

one filter on a video instead of two, treat it like a normal clip and not like a nested sequence, although they act differently you can drag a nested sequences into the viewer and add filters and what not, it’s a clean way to work

shift click two or more clips and use a key command to glue would be faster and sharper insted of using a nested sequence for lets say two 4 second clips but whatever floats your boat.

I just want the interface to mimic my audio practices , lol later dooder

I don’t know, so heres your big AND AGAIN, I want to do it.

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

OK,
You’re NOT trying to “glue TWO clips together”… you really want to RESTORE a shortened clip to a longer (or full) length.

You can use the “Extend” function:
1. Touch the END of the clip you want to extend with the cursor (it will become highlighted).
2. Put the cursor on the timeline to exactly where you want the clip to end.
3. Hit the “e” key.
4. The end of the clip will extend to want it to end. It will now be that new, longer length.
(This will work at the FRONT edge of a shortened clip as well.

You can use the “Drag” function:
1. Touch the END of the clip you want to extend with the cursor (it will become highlighted).
2. “Drag” the end of the clip to where you want it to end. It will now be that new, longer length.

[Byrd Mcdonald]

I think it is a FASCINATING idea, and I can think of a million reasons why it would be nice to PERMANENTLY MARRY together two clips into one “clip” file, even if the system has to stop down to “build” the corresponding media clip.

Yes, we have nesting, but I personally have NEVER felt nesting was my friend. never trusted nests, primarily because long ago you read about how “nests” are the first thing that begin to clog up a project file. What if you know, for sure, that you need to pieces of media to live together “as one” for the duration of your product.

I didn’t realize before how much I want to be able to “contextually” click on two highlighted pieces of media and link them END to END into one bit of media. This is what I imagined MERGED CLIPS to mean….but it didn’t.

IMHO.