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Music Videos in Final Cut Pro X
I mostly do hip hop music videos, so I do an extreme amount of syncing with the music. Every time i want to go back and add/subtract a clip, the clips that i already have “timed” to the music moves and throws off the entire music video. is there a way to “lock” a clip to the timeline and not to a gap or another clip?
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[Rolando Martinez] “is there a way to “lock” a clip to the timeline and not to a gap or another clip?”
No, there is no other behaviour available. You are better off cutting a music promo by connecting your shots (Q) to the primary storyline so they sit above it rather than putting them on the primary storyline where any changes you make will ripple the edit – the last thing you want to happen 😉
Simon Ubsdell
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I meant to add that you’re best off editing the music into the primary storyline (rather than connecting it to it) so that it makes the spine for everything else.
Simon Ubsdell
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Looks its me – the ranting banshee of a thousand ranting posts. But simon, isn’t that kind of surprising? that the default, the main, primary storyline location for edited video is completely inappropriate for edits timed to music?
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Is there even a “Mark To Markers” function or a way to put markers on the sequence like there was in FCP7 and before? Mark To Markers is my bread and butter when cutting anything to music and it would be a shame if that was one more thing missing from X.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “But simon, isn’t that kind of surprising? that the default, the main, primary storyline location for edited video is completely inappropriate for edits timed to music?”
Leave me alone – I was just trying to help the guy out! I didn’t say it wasn’t an a**e-about-face way to work.
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Simon Ubsdell
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[Owen Wexler] “Is there even a “Mark To Markers” function or a way to put markers on the sequence like there was in FCP7 and before?”
Yikes, you want it to behave like a real, grown-up editing application!?
You’re out of luck, sorry. Markers are about as basic as it gets in FCPX – and you can’t apply markers to the timeline, only to clips.
You could apply markers to the master music clip which might help a bit but that’s about it.
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Simon Ubsdell
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In addition to Connected clips you can do an Overwrite by hitting D
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hahahaha. fair ball. man, I am *such* a gripey sod about this whole thing. I think I need to see a therapist about my bruised emotional relationship with apple or something, punch a cushion of the logo.. ohhh dear.
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[Craig Seeman] “In addition to Connected clips you can do an Overwrite by hitting D”
I don’t think this is a good idea for cutting music promos – you really don’t want to have anything on the primary storyline so you don’t have to think about any kind of rippling behaviour throwing you out of sync (oh the irony!). Of course you could do it if you were super-careful …
Simon Ubsdell
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “Looks its me – the ranting banshee of a thousand ranting posts. But simon, isn’t that kind of surprising? that the default, the main, primary storyline location for edited video is completely inappropriate for edits timed to music?”
This is your track-oriented brain talking. Simon’s suggested approach of putting the music in the primary storyline isn’t some crazy workaround; it actually makes sense conceptually for a music video, once you wrap your head around the storyline concept. And it’s not an accident that the program lets you do this.
This is actually a rather neat example of how comprehensive the new timeline paradigm is. If you’d added the automatic rippling features but kept traditional separated audio/video tracks, you’d be screwed in this situation. Apple realized this, and didn’t do that. The folks claiming Apple never thought through real world editing tasks when designing this new paradigm are just hilariously wrong. The more I use FCP X, the more I realize just how meticulously the new approach has been thought out.
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