Insert as connected clip

[Jeremy Garchow]

Select the 5 connected clips, right click and choose to create storyline (or simply hit command-g).

Select the whole storyline by clicking on the thicker top border. When you have the storyline selected like this, all of the primary keyboard shortcuts apply.

Place your playhead in between the third and fourth clip, find your clip in the Event Browser, mark a range and hit w to insert in to the secondary storyline.

Jeremy

[James Ewart]

Thanks for this.

I am beginning to understand the value of not dumping clips around across multiple tracks for the sake of it and thinking about the Primary Storyline as what is is; where the main stuff goes. Hard habit to break after so many years though. To start with I found it rather inflexible but perhaps i does encourage more focussed disciplined thinking. I’m still not sure. But I opened FCP7 the other day and it looked a little old fashioned.

I am beginning to understand the need for secondary storylines as a result of this reply.

Auditions are great.

Compound clips I don’t really get but then I never really used nesting before.

All the best

James

[Jeremy Garchow]

[James Ewart] “I am beginning to understand the value of not dumping clips around across multiple tracks for the sake of it and thinking about the Primary Storyline as what is is; where the main stuff goes. Hard habit to break after so many years though.”

There are keyboard shortcuts to move thing in and out of the primary very easily. Sometimes, if you aren’t quite sure what “the main stuff” is yet, you can play around with it as a connected clip and as you refine, you can always move it in to the primary (or if you decide later it’s not right, you can move it out and up to a connected clip). Command-option-uparrow and downarrow will do this for you.

[James Ewart] “To start with I found it rather inflexible but perhaps i does encourage more focussed disciplined thinking. I’m still not sure. “

Yes, it takes a minute to learn what is going on and learn the new conventions.

[James Ewart] “But I opened FCP7 the other day and it looked a little old fashioned.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPw-3e_pzqU

[James Ewart] “I am beginning to understand the need for secondary storylines as a result of this reply.”

Think of it this way. The secondary storyline is kind of like a track in that it keeps adjacent clips together horizontally. It is connected at only one point to the primary, instead of every connected clip having it’s own connection point. It allows you to place dissolves in between connected clips as well.

One other tip, you can take a connected clip grab hit, press and hold g, and touch the edge of another connected clip and it will automatically form a storyline.

Hope that helps.

Jeremy

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[Matias Canelson]

James, here is an explanation about the differences between secondary storylines vs compound clips I wrote in another forum, I think it will help you.

https://fcp.co/forum/4-final-cut-pro-x-fcpx/14172-secondary-storyline-vs-compounds-clip

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MatiasCanelson
http://www.canelson.com.ar

[Jeff Kirkland]

If the primary storyline is the spine of your edit, then connected clips are best used for single shot cutaways. Whenever the cutaway consists of a sequence of clips, group them as a secondary storyline to keep them together and allow you to add transitions between them, etc. Essentially, as the name suggests, create a secondary story within the main story.

Compound clips can be resource hogs and I’d always recommend avoiding them unless absolutely necessary. They are best used to create timelines that can be shared between projects, or for creating a single virtual clip from a group of clips in order to apply a single effect across them all at once.

Jeff Kirkland | Southern Creative Media
video * audio * post * production
Melbourne, Australia

[Bret Williams]

I wasn’t aware there was any confusion. Though you can use a compound clip for a full sequence, I generally use them only for compositing purposes. Mostly things like multiple layers of graphics doing their thing that need to be moved or transitioned all at once. Same way I used nests in FCP or PreComps in AE.

[James Ewart]

that makes sense to me. It is nesting really isn’t it.