Move multiple clip using nesting

[Shane Ross]

[Mike Allen] “I want to move a number of clips relative to each other. I understand that I should nest those clips and then move the nest,”

I wouldn’t. You can drag a box around the clips and move them all at once. Or my favorite tool, TTTT (press T four times) and you will get a double arrow that points right. That will select all the clips from the point you click, and too the right. Then you can move everything where you want.

Shane

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[David Roth weiss]

[Shane Ross] “Or my favorite tool, TTTT (press T four times) and you will get a double arrow that points right.”

Or hit Shift + T, which does the same thing.

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[Tom Wolsky]

Not quite. Shift-T is the track height or some such. You press T then hold the Shift key to toggle it to the multitrack selection tool.

But I don’t think that’s what Greg’s really looking for. It sounded like he wanted to select non-contiguous clips and group them keeping the spacing. Or maybe I was making it more complicated than it is.

All the best,

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[David Roth weiss]

[Tom Wolsky] “Not quite. Shift-T is the track height or some such.”

You are absolutely correct Tom, my bad.

The proper keyboard sequence is T, then hold down Shift, which indeed fires up the double right arrows.

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[Michael Allen]

“It sounded like he wanted to select non-contiguous clips and group them keeping the spacing. Or maybe I was making it more complicated than it is.”

This is what I want to do. I want to use the motion tab and keyframes to move multiple items together. Will shift T do this?

[Michael Allen]

I realize that I can highlight multiple clips and move them around, but I cannot use the motion tab to give the grouped clips a motion path in relation to one another. When I do this after nesting, only one clip moves on the motion path. I know that I do not have to figure the motion path one at a time. Also, If I copy and paste, all the clips sit on top of one another. This is not the desired outcome.

Mike

[Shane Ross]

[Mike Allen] “but I cannot use the motion tab to give the grouped clips a motion path in relation to one another.”

PARENTING…that is something After Effects does. You can’t do that in FCP…sorry. Motion, yes. AE, yes. FCP…nope. It is an NLE, not compositing application.

Shane

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[Michael Allen]

It is good to know that I cannot do this. However, your comment that “It is an NLE, not a compositing application.” is funny to me. There are many things that FCP now does that had to be done in a compositing application not too long ago. I did not know that this was not one of those things.

Mike

[Shane Ross]

Well, it can do some pretty good basic compositing, but not the advanced stuff like parenting.

Shane

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[Michael Allen]

One way to accomplish this it seems is to export the clip through quicktime conversion as an animation file to keep the alpha channel. Then re-import the clip and apply motion. This will work, if one does not have an FX program I guess. I was thinking there might be a better solution.

Mike