Music Videos in Final Cut Pro X

[Justin Mac]

It seems as though connected clips (attached to the audio track on the main storyline) cannot use transitions?

There must be a better way of editing to timed music

[Craig Seeman]

Easy. Select the Connected Clips and make them a Storyline. Command G.

[Justin Mac]

Thanks Craig!

[Craig Seeman]

You’re welcome.

Basically one can add “tracks” that way. You have a choice between Connected Clips and Secondary Storylines (similar to tracks). It would be good if one could set a preference setting or have a “row” selection tool to make a bunch of connected clips into a storyline though.

[Araby Patch]

Hello all…

A question: putting the music in the main story line works for keeping clips locked to certain music cues, but when I’m moving the clips around, I end up with all the old spacing problems of FCP 7, but worse, I have to keep zooming in and out to close the gaps. No longer can I find the select all from the little arrow function. Kind of a step back, don’t you think… or am I missing something?

[Harald Sandø]

But Apple COULD enable a ‘lock clip’ feature without any problem, though. I don’t see why not. It would have been handy in many cases. For instance when you want the magnetic timeline feature, but still want to ‘cut to’ some different music tracks at certain times.

Right now, for instance, I am cutting a promo of about 3-4 minutes for a tourist place in Sweden. I have chosen the music and the approximate length of the film, and put the music clips where I want them. But they of course get moved here and there whenever I move the clips they are connected to. I could of course move ALL the clips except the music into a separate storyline above the main story line, but that seems very cumbersome…

Actually, I don’t see why fcpx couldn’t incorporate some ‘track behavior’ that could be optional at times. Sometimes I get confused when I for instance have several clips with narrator voice together with several music clips. When I move them around the clips jump up and down and ‘glue’ themselves as close to the primary storyline as possible. In this case I would have liked to have a (lockable) ‘track utility’ where the narrator stayed at one ‘track’ position and the music at another. I could of course create one storyline for music and one for the narrator, but then the single clips in the storyline doesn’t connect to the clips in the primary storyline…

😉

[Elena Cebrian]

I can´t find how to lock a non existing track (miss my tracks), but one way can be making the cut with the blade tool (Cmd+B) just cuts the video track, no audio track and then delete with TAB. Deleting with TAB leaves the gap in the place.