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How to remove splice from multicam clip?
HI Friends,
Is there a way to remove a splice from a multicam clip in FCPX? In other words,sometimes I am cutting between several angles and I create multiple splices in the clip and then realize I don’t want some of them and want to combine a couple shots into one. Of course, I could select one side of the splice and change the angle to match the other side of the splice so in effect there would be a splice between two sections of the same clip – and this is what I have been doing – but then if you add a camera movement in post or other effects, etc. you have to add it to both clips and it complicates things, especially with keyframes. It would be great if I could simply select the splice and disappear it. Any thoughts?
Thanks,
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Yup, just select the splice and hit delete.
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Wow – embarrassingly simple! I thought I tried that already – I think I used the wrong delete key I guess. In any event, I’m working on this right now so thanks so much for the fast response!
_OB
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Thank you!
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No problem!
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I had the same or similar question before, but no successful answer on that.
So how to you do that exactly?
– Andreas
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Same as “remove through edit” in FCP7, select the edit point and delete it. But it only works on Multicam clips in FCPX.
Hopefully 10.1 will bring back this function for regular clips.
They’re also talking about it in the Merry Christmas thread.
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Thanks!
I thought I must be a wally not to get this working. But as it is only working for multicam clips I feel calmed a little.
– Andreas
Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools
X-Files Pro, tools for working with FCPX
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/X-Files/index.html“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil -
Yeah, it’s one of those things you just expect to be there.
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As said I gave up on that at the time I needed it and did it with some tedious manual steps.
But somehow its logical that it is not working.
It is one of the disadvantages of trackless editing.
So if you got a cut thru in the primary storyline and delete it all clips connected to the 2 (or more parts) have to be reordered/relinked.
And that’s quite a challenge.– Andreas
Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools
X-Files Pro, tools for working with FCPX
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/X-Files/index.html“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil -
I see what you mean and how it could be a challenge. Removing the through edit essentially deletes the second half of the clip and replaces it with an extend edit. Potentially deleting any connected clips.
In fact the UI animation when deleting an angle change looks a lot like that is what’s happening. The edit point zooms off to the right when deleted, as if to overwrite the latter portion of the clip.
Although I’ve never had a problem with connected clips being deleted, losing their position or their stack order when deleting through edits in multicam clips. I figure that behavior could be implemented into regular clips just the same, they’ve done it pretty well already.
We’ll see if they did very soon.
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