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How do I snap to the END of a clip, and not one frame after it?
Ok so the little lscroller line in the timeline, its one frame wide right? (which to this day still confuses me) but what I want to know is how do I snap to the end of a clip, without going one frame over the end?
BAsically when I select a clip, i snap to the front end and mark an in, then snap to the back end, and have to press the back arrow once before I mark my out, because if I dont I will be selecting the clip plus one frame into the next one. You know what i mean…….
thanks.
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You can’t, FCP doesn’t have the ability to snap to the last frame of a clip in the way that Avid does. However there is a Mark Clip (x) function which marks in/out points over the current clip according to the status of the AutoSelect buttons.
Martin
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You can also just select a sequence clip and type shift+a to mark it in to out then type shift +o to go to out point.
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I know what you mean. X marks the clip but thats not always what you are after. I have had this beef with FCP and avid forever. The problem is that the mark out is one frame late. If you ever cut on any tool (with the exception of FCP or Avid) it marks the out as out. This includes decades of liner editing. I spend my life editing by pressing the back arrow every time I have to mark and out in the timeline and it has driven me crazy forever.
Chris.
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[Chris Reynolds] “I have had this beef with FCP and avid forever”
Well, it doesn’t help you with FCP, but in Avid you can hold down the option/alt key (IIRC) to drag to the last frame. You can also set ff/rew in Avid to stop on tail frames.
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It is still more key strokes. If out was just out it would save a lot of key strokes.
Cheers, Chris
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The reason it is that way is so that you can jump to “out” and you wouldn’t be destroying the last frame when you overwrite, or slice it off and make a flash frame out of it when you insert your next edit at the end of your next edit.
Think of it more like FCP is an editing tool, not a timing tool. The function, as it is, is far more convenient when you’re editing. That’s what it’s for. An extra arrow key back is not that big of a deal, and easy enough to program into your brain so that you don’t even think about having to do it. I wouldn’t mind being able to have a modifier key combo to choose, but if I only get one, I’d rather have it the way it is.
Just my 2 cents
debe
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Lightworks, Discreet Edit and Avid DS all have the out point as out and it works like a treat. If your editing all day the less keystokes the better!!
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Respectfully Debe – you’re rationalizing. It’s sorta like motion control in FCP – great and lame at the same time, yet some here think it’s fine ’cause that’s all they know. When someone has worked with other NLEs that work “correctly” with a specific feature, it is NOT more convenient when a work around is required.
That said, moving an arrow back a frame is not a big deal, but I’d rather not if I don’t have to. The option drag in Avid is a good solution.
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I believe I said it would be nice to have the option, but considering currently we do not, I’d rather that it is the way it is rather than have the out marked one frame early and have to edit around it. I edit more than I time.
debe
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