Is it possible to add an edit in FCPX without using the blade tool???

[Julian Bowman]

It’s not the same. You highlight the clips (in itself taking longer than the f6 key I had bound) and then you do a cut and the highlight is removed, or remains to the left of the cut… so you need to highlight them all again to do the next cut. I often just go through and strike a handful of cuts, or sometimes across the length of a song on the beat.

Anyway, it is just a limitation of the design philosophy, and one that obviously not all editors using it will come across because not all editors edit in that manner. I do at times, therefore I would like to at least lock everything below the primary.

[Charlie Austin]

[Julian Bowman] “It’s not the same. You highlight the clips (in itself taking longer than the f6 key I had bound) and then you do a cut and the highlight is removed, or remains to the left of the cut… so you need to highlight them all again to do the next cut. I often just go through and strike a handful of cuts, or sometimes across the length of a song on the beat.

Anyway, it is just a limitation of the design philosophy, and one that obviously not all editors using it will come across because not all editors edit in that manner. I do at times, therefore I would like to at least lock everything below the primary.
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Got it, makes sense… The ability to maybe lock by Role would be nice. I think it would solve your issue… as well as the problem created when a chunk of cut music, which you don’t want to move as it’s cut relative to other music, is connected to a clip you’re moving. You can work around it with the ~ key, but if there are, say, FX connected to that clip that you “do” want to move with it, you either need to move the MX connection snorkel to another clip (if you can) or pop the clip out of the primary and drag everything old skool style.

So… I’m off to send feedback to Apple to suggest Role Locking. 🙂

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[Julian Bowman]

Aye, I guess locking roles would work. Would have to mean I’d have to bother learning about them 🙂 but a small price to pay. It would lock and protect all the audio in one keystroke, so great.

(I do actually have a rudimentary understanding of them, just never use them in my editing style/workflow)

And yes to the music. I would actually like to be able to connect clips to other clips not on the primary. Came across some limitations of the current rules which forced me into making compound clips just to circumnavigate issues created by everything attaching itself to a primary clip.

[Nick Natteau]

Just did the same. Thanks everyone for your replies.