Locking in and outs in Bin (or what ever they call it now)

[Tony Silanskas]

If you’re talking about having your “range” marks stay with the clip after you clip off of it then no, and I have not found a workaround for this. I agree that this is annoying as I frequently want to go back to certain clips and can’t remember where I last left off.

As long as you don’t click off the clip the range markers (in and out points) won’t move. You can use the “Insert” and “Overwrite” keyboard shortcuts while scrubbing through a clip with “J K and L” which will put the part of the clip you selected in the timeline but not deselect the clip in the Event browser.

tony

http://www.HungryCliff.com

[Craig Seeman]

For the time being you could use markers.
You could keyword the range which would make it a “Collection” and then delete it when you’re done. That might get messy if you forget to delete them though.

[Eric Mellor]

I was having this same problem. Once you have selected your “range” hit “F” and it marks it as a “Favorite” and denotes the in/out range by a green bar at the top.

[Eddie Torre]

I thought turning off the skimmer might help, but it didn’t.

[Elliott Dunwody]

Well, thank goodness I’m not the only one having the issue. To be honest, I’m not sure why I’m even trying. I’m still one of them old worn out tape guys using P2 Bcam footage to work trying to learn this thing.
Maybe I’m to old to learn new tricks.
Just seems that the work arounds take more time than why doesn’t it do things that it should just do.
Thanks to all, I’m sure the is the only the beginning to many more questions. Wouldn’t know that I’ve been editing for more than 15 years. But darn, in and outs of a clip shouldn’t be this hard.

Bright Blue Sky Productions
4811 Rivoli Dr
Macon, GA 31210

http://www.brightbluesky.com

[Craig Seeman]

[Eric Mellor] “I was having this same problem. Once you have selected your “range” hit “F” and it marks it as a “Favorite” and denotes the in/out range by a green bar at the top.”

… and then you can change All Clips to Favorites in the Upper Left and you have your clip with the favorites range.

and you can go through a bunch of clips and mark in and out points (ranges) and Favorite them. You can even have several Favorited ranges in a single clip.

Sort of instant temp subclipping.

Done with the range. Select the clip and hit U or hit the clear star on the left side of the toolbar.

[Elliott Dunwody]

Thank you sir.

Bright Blue Sky Productions
4811 Rivoli Dr
Macon, GA 31210

http://www.brightbluesky.com

[Eddie Torre]

You could change the appearance of your clips in the browser by choosing “List View”.

From there you could right click which columns you’d like to see. Might be better for the time being

[Craig Seeman]

Further refining the technique in which in and out points (range) is EASILY remembered.
Mark In and Out point (range).
Press F to make range a Favorite (remembers range).
Note Green bar at top of clip where range was.
Go do whatever
Go back to clip and click on Green bar
Voilà. Range appears again.
Press U to remove Favorited range as desired.

So simply click F on range and it will be easily remembered.

FCPX Range (in and out points) remembered

[Simon Ubsdell]

Great tip, thanks Craig – I was sceptical that this would be a workable workaround for losing I/O points but the way you’re now recommending doing it it’s actually a very powerful way of working. It’s like keeping a running log of all your Browser edit activity. (The only issue is I can see is the Favourites folder getting unwieldy pretty quickly in the course of a day’s work).

I’d still like the I/O points to stick though as well, but then I’m greedy 😉

Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
http://www.tokyo-uk.com