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Magnetic Timeline and Broadcast Programming
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I get a bit confused by some of the “parlance” do you mean by that the option command click to move the connector?
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OPT+CMD clicking to move the anchor for a connect clip is the feature called: Flexible Clip Connections
Holding the ~ key while slipping, sliding, or moving a clip in the primary without affecting connected clips is the feature called: Override Clip Connections.
Brett was most likely talking about the latter which is new to 10.0.6.
Hope that clears it up.
Andy
https://www.timesavertutorials.com
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Cheers
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[Andy Neil] “OPT+CMD clicking to move the anchor for a connect clip is the feature called: Flexible Clip Connections
Holding the ~ key while slipping, sliding, or moving a clip in the primary without affecting connected clips is the feature called: Override Clip Connections.
Brett was most likely talking about the latter which is new to 10.0.6.
Hope that clears it up.”
Sorry, it was my bad.
On this site (https://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/whats-new/), it says this:
“Flexible Clip Connections
Control how Connected Clips respond to changes in your timeline. Choose to keep them connected to clips as you edit or — with a simple modifier key — have them remain in place when slipping, sliding, or moving clips in the Primary Storyline.”I was talking about the ~ modifier when I said flexible clip connections.
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Huh. I’ve never heard the phrase flexible clip connections until Apple called it that on their list of new features. What was flexible before? Nothing. You could change or adjust the connection point with cmd+option click, but I wouldn’t have used the phrase flexible in conjunction with that.
But yes I was referring to the override function. But the real point of my post was that the real problem many were having with FCP X wasn’t magnetism. Magnetism was in fact just full time ripple and can be overridden with the position tool in most circumstances. The real problem was clip connections which were not overridden with the P tool. But the latest update fixes the majority of the issues I had with connections. I’d love a toggle however instead of a modifier. When slipping/sliding I NEVER want the clip connections to move. And probably 90% of the time I’d like to move my clips independently of connections. The only real need I see for connections is during ripple (magnetic) functions when clips are being shuffled around as a result of OTHER parts of the timeline being adjusted. And FCP functioned this way without any connections at all. Unless you had a track locked.
So really, for the way I work, I don’t even see the need for connections at all. I guess they’re helpful if you break apart audio, but I’ve yet to ever find a need to do that. If I could toggle the tilde key to on, I could pretty much ignore connection points as long as they were at the default and hadn’t been adjusted to some weird spot like at the end of a clip
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[Bret Williams] “If I could toggle the tilde key to on, I could pretty much ignore connection points as long as they were at the default and hadn’t been adjusted to some weird spot like at the end of a clip”
Supposedly, you can press the tilde key and while holding it down, option click on a clip to keep persistent mode. Tap tilde again to turn it off. It’s not documented, and some folks can’t get it to work consistently, but I guess you can try…
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Really? Cool. Gonna try that. If that works I could turn off the display of connections and clean up the interface.
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[Bret Williams] “Really? Cool. Gonna try that. If that works I could turn off the display of connections and clean up the interface.”
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[Bret Williams] “Really? Cool. Gonna try that. If that works I could turn off the display of connections and clean up the interface.”
I haven’t tried it either, heard about it on facebook of all places. Here’s a video someone made about it, though it seems preety self explanatory.. 😉
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