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Making a rapid cut back and forth between two clips
Hi all,
I’ve only just started using final cut hence the really obvious question which will probably cause most of you to shake your heads at me. I’m a cameraman/photographer first and foremost but I’m moving into doing more post work and I’m cutting a sequence at the moment that I’d love to get some help with.
I have a music track running underneath two clips which has the following words:
“looking for dirty dancing and pounding pounding techno music”
As the word ‘music’ ends I currently cut to a new clip. What I want to do is cut quickly, back and forth from the 1st video clip to the second, back to the first and then finally back to the second clip, over the words ‘pounding pounding’.
I’m trying to get a bit more energy into it and before I laboriously insert and trim tiny clips to get this effect, I wanted to check whether there wasn’t a quicker and easier way of doing it? If anyone can point me to a tutorial covering that sort of video transition, or just describe an easier method, I’d be really grateful.
Sorry for asking such a basic question, and thanks in advance
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4 Replies
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Line up the clips on v1 and v2, any time you want to see the video on v1 you cut out that section of v2.
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Easy. Stack up two clips in the timeline. Add the blink filter to the clip on the upper track. Tweak to taste.
Kevin Monahan
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Thanks both,
I’ll try both methods and see which i prefer. Exactly the kind of answers I was hoping for 🙂
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Those two ways are probably easier ways.
Another way is to do a multiclip and then cut between the two as needed. If you’re just doing this for a fast back-and-forth do as they suggest above. But in the future if you have multiple cameras or need to go back and forth over a longer period of time using multiclip is another way to go about it easily. But probably a little bit more frustrating to figure out at first, but once you understand how it works, it’s pretty snazzy, especially if you have several simultaneous shots. Just another tool which may be of use to you in the future.
Good luck!
Regards,
Chris
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