Join “all” through edits?

[Larry Asbell]

Right click on any through edit and select from menu.

Be careful because I found that if segments joined by a through edit have different speeds they will rejoin anyhow and the second segment will take on the speed of the first.

[Elijah Lynn]

Thanks for your reply Larry,

That works if I just have one or two but I need to do a mass action on all my through edits. I was editing a multicam and just letting it roll while making realtime cuts between cameras. I went back and changed some camera angles back to the surrounding ones.

Now I have a sequence with 20-30 through edits and would like to rejoin all of them without doing it the hard way. Is this possible?

[Neil Evans]

When you right click on a through edit as Larry suggests there is an option for “Join all through edits” in the contextual menu. That will do what you want (with Larry’s caveat about speed changes, etc). However, I think that option was added in FCP 7, which I’m guessing you aren’t using. I don’t believe the feature existed in earlier versions.

Time to do it the hard way…

[Elijah Lynn]

Thanks Neil! At least you confirmed that there isn’t a way to do it in FCP 6.

I guess that will get me motivated to spend a weekend reinstalling the OS and Final Cut Pro 7!

[Michael Craven]

A slightly faster way than right clicking each edit and using the contextual menu would be to select each edit point and simply hit “delete.”

[Elijah Lynn]

Great tip! I am using it!

Thanks