Is it possible to easily change where a clip is connected?

[Noah Kadner]

Yes- place the mouse over the clip where you want the connection to move to. Command-Option click at that point. Both the playhead and the clip connection will jump to that point.

Noah

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[Michael Reiersgaard]

This is exactly what I was looking for; thank you! I tried command click, option click, but not both together, of course. Is this documented somewhere or was I supposed to magically know this?

[Bill Davis]

Like every complex software package EVER released, you’re supposed to do precisely what you’re doing.
Build comfort and operational expertise day by day, encountering challenges, solving them, adding to your base of operating knowledge step by step over time.

FCP-X may be the first software ever developed that had such a MASSIVE installed base in place when the company realized that to make necessary changes to the underlying engine that they would have to gut and re-build the whole damn thing.

I think there’s bit of a parallel in homebuilding these days.

For decades around my average neighborhood the standard was add a room here and there as the family grew and changed. But after a certain point, people (at least in my neighborhood) looked at the old construction standards and practices and instead of re-modeling – started doing “scrapes” – taking area homes down to the dirt – and installing new everything from the plumbing to the wiring in order to take advantage of modern homebuilding concepts. (Having pulled a LOT of wire into existing walls in my time I have to say it was refreshing the last time to be able to install the outlets, computer wiring and conduit that I WANTED instead of hacking it into a home built to 19th century standards!)

Remodeling and total tear-down/re-build both have their place. And judgements have to be made as to whether the community is better served by working with the old architecture because it’s particularly beloved or unique – or moving on to building something more in line with modern design ideas.

Adobe and AVID have the same opportunities to gut and re-invent and have so far decided to honor their base with nothing beyond solid, functional remodeling. Apple decreed that FCP-X required a teardown in order to make big, substantial changes in how the plumbing works.

They think their plumbing will be a superior platform for the future.

Only time will tell whether their bet on a future where data flexibility and more automation rules the industry. Or loses the competition because more players feel traditional tools and workflows and compatibility with a high end user base are the necessary requirements of on-going success.

Only time will tell.

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[Alex Gollner]

I read it in the online help system. It is the section marked “Adjust the connection point of a connected clip” – it’s on the top of page 82 of the PDF I generated from the help viewer.

It’s in Edit your project > Add and remove clips > Connect clips

I find this sort of thing by reading the manual away from the software – although it’s hard, I try and read every word. It’s tempting to skip sections that I think I already know. Reading away from the app means I don’t get distracted by trying out a specific feature.

While reading I don’t expect to remember how to do everything, just to remember what is possible.

Alex

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[James Bayliss-smith]

OK command option click, got it for connected video but I’m trying to move the connection point for a connected bit of audio (its connected below the primary storyline it wont do it driving me crazy! Any thoughts

[James Bayliss-smith]

Okay works above the primary storyline but not below. I edit news and I always have a voiceover that I need to shift about. Should I just always put that audio above the primary storyline or is this just a bug. I’m still on 10.0.1 so hopefully once I’ve downloaded the update (20 hours from China!!) this may work or is there some other logic behind this?