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Insert Edit
After making an insert edit or cutaway how do I get back to the original clip if the client lets me know the cutaway is wrong?
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Step 1) Delete the inserted clip leaving a hole, make sure your cursor is the arrow tool, mouse over the rightmost edge of the clip before the hole, when the cursor becomes two vertical lines with arrows pointing horizontally, click and drag the edge of the clip to the right over the hole.
Step 2) Read up on Final Cut Pro and hang out at the following link a lot:
https://creativecalf.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_view_posts.cgi?forumid=8
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…and from now on, do your cutaways on a separate track above the main track. Makes it much easier to slide them around and remove them all together without having to futz with the main track every time there’s a tiny change.
debe
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Ahhh!!! Thanks!!!
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[debe] “…and from now on, do your cutaways on a separate track above the main track. Makes it much easier to slide them around and remove them all together without having to futz with the main track every time there’s a tiny change.”
That sounds kinda like the old A / B track editing.
is that what it is essentially?
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Well, sorta, but for different reasons.
This way, you don’t mess with the main, or “A” layer, and it gives you much nore freedom to scoot “B”-Roll around without worrying about leaving a gap or a flash frame, or having to fill a hole if you move something. Fewer keystrokes/mouse moves makes for more efficient editing.
FCP has virtually limitless video layers. I say use ’em!
debe
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[debe] “do your cutaways on a separate track above the main track”
I do this when working (when I’m “just” the editor) with a producer sitting “behind me”.
(S)he can change the decision as much as needed without affecting the solid “base” that’s being “covered” by the cutaways.
It also makes the cutaways easy to see on the timeline, and easy to color-correct separately from the “base” track after-the-fact. -
As an aside on working with producer or director, a trick of multiple video lines I have used:
The directors says “no, get rid of that shot, I don’t want it” but it has been in a long time, I will leave the clip in location on another track (my “potentially returning clips” track), and turn off “clip enable” (makes it invisible).
That way, when he inevitably changes his mind and wants that exact clip again, I know exactly where it is.
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[Steven Gonzales] “when he inevitably changes his mind and wants that exact clip again, I know exactly where it is.”
But that NEVER happens to me! 😉
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Yeah, but you can’t use the trim window then. I love rippling and rolling in the trim window. I also like keeping everything on one track if possible for EDL purposes.
Whatever works best for your own style is the way to go, though.
Don’t you like the trim edit window, though, Debe?
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It depends on the project.
Most of the time, by the time I get to B-Roll, content is already nailed down. There should be no need to trim or ripple the main layer.
But that is a very good point for when you are still futzing with contnet and trying to add B-Roll at the same time.
debe
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