Multiple Blade tool cuts

[Tom Wolsky]

Put the clip in the timeline, select the clip, press Shift-down arrow, Control-V, repeat. Not sure why you’d want to do this, but that’s one way.

All the best,

Tom

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[Lulu Malmgren]

Hi

Sorry I didn’t get that..

Pressing Shift then down arrow doesn’t seem to do anything. Pressing down arrow on it’s own take it to the next edit point. Doesn’t recognise where there are the original dv start/stop points…

x

[Tom Wolsky]

Not Shift then down arrow, Shift together with the down arrow key to go to the next marker. The clip has to be selected to do this.

All the best,

Tom

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Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Lulu Malmgren]

Hey thanks, I get that now, but it’s still quite time consuming as have to re-select the clip aster each blade cut…

[Tom Wolsky]

That’s it. Not sure why you want a lot of clips, each if which is 40 minutes long. Perhaps if you explained how you were trying to work we might be able to offer another solution that suits the application better.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Lulu Malmgren]

I have roughly 9 hrs of footage in total, which I will creatively edit down into a short observational film.

I haven’t batch captured so I have 16 thirty minute chunks of captured footage, so I thought the best way to work through it all was to just put everything in the timeline and work through it all like a sculpture. I’m basically watching it all through chronologically and cutting out all the dud bits, to see how much footage I actually have to work with – and using the blade tool to cut up the original 30 minute chunks up into clips I want to use.

Hopefully will end up with around 4 hrs on my timeline – which should be a good amount to start playing with for the 10 minute film.

[David Roth weiss]

[Lulu Malmgren] “I thought the best way to work through it all was to just put everything in the timeline and work through it all like a sculpture.”

Lulu,

Been there, done that, always regretted it… That technique is a sure fire way to turn a non-linear editor into a linear editor.

A better technique with FCP I’ve found is to simply load the clip into the viewer and put a marker at the head of every select clip. After doing that, if you check in the browser you will notice a twirl-down and that FCP has actually created a separate listing for each clip you’ve marked, just in case you’d like log it and find it by name, etc. You don’t have to log, but it’s a nice feature.

Later, when you load the marked media into the viewer, its very simple to move down the line between marks to find what you’re looking for at high speed, just as the NLE was designed. When doing it your way on the timeline finding shots is usually much more cumbersome.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[Lulu Malmgren]

Yes of course – you’re right. I made my first film in iMovie and haven’t released my linear editing habits. But I like the idea of sculpting it down – as i’m not following a storyboard, and have complete free reign. I might (though) try your suggested way on the next clip and see which fits better. Any other technique tips that you couldn’t edit without?

Thanks