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How do you add more than one favorite to a clip?
I’ve been playing around with the 10.01 trial, and I have only been able to make one favorite per clip. I figured favorites was a good way to make sub clips, but it only seems to give me one per clip… Is this just a limitation of the trial version or what? BTW, here’s my process I play the clip, set my I and O point, press “F” for favorite and rename the favorite. Am I missing something too make multiple favorite?
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No. You can easily make multiple favorites in a single clip. I don’t usually bother renaming them myself, but it’s up to you. All you need to do is select another in/out point and hit F again to favorite another section.
If you’re having trouble doing that, try posting a pic or something to illustrate the issue.
Andy
https://www.timesavertutorials.com
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Actually you can create as many favorites as you like per clip, but they cannot overlap each other. You are doing it right, Just continue to mark in ands outs, then hit F like you are doing.
Favorites are designed to be used to mark an area in a clip which you want to use in your story/project. Typically you would review your footage marking your favorites as you go. Then in the event browser you can choose to only show favorites, control-f, and from there quickly assemble your edit by pulling all the favorites in your timeline. Try it, the workflow is pretty fantastic.
BTW. Multiple favorites is the reasons for the current lack of FCP X remembering your ins and outs on a clip. Because you can have multiple favorites on a clip, if you need to remember your in and out, you would make it a favorite and therefore FCP X doesn’t need to remember your last in an out. Not that I agree with it, but I can see Apple’s point.
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okay so here’s the first favorite. I set in and out hit “F” and then renamed the clip:
By andyhays at 2011-10-08Next I click on the clip again to select it and do the entire process again. Only this time, right after I press “F” I see this:
By andyhays at 2011-10-08Either the trial has a limit on how many favorites you can do, the update has a glitch, or I’m doing something wrong.
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I get this behavior in 10.6.8 BTW
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It looks like you are overlapping favorites. If the range of one favorite overlaps another, FCPX consolidates the two into a single favorite. Try creating more than one favorite without an overlapping range.
https://www.timesavertutorials.com
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oh, okay. gotcha no overlap. kinda sucks that it does that, you should be allowed to have overlapping favorites IMO
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A favorite is a favorite. There is no favorite A and favorite B. Those are keywords.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
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oh, so keywords allow for overlap? cool
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[Andrew Hays] “oh, so keywords allow for overlap? cool”
I typically go through and keyword my footage to organize it by scene, then go into the scene collections and narrow it down further by marking favorites, which I then add to the timeline for editing.
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style!
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