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One of the best features in FCP7
… was the ‘all tracks forward’ (TTTT) command (& siblings) to select all clips from this point to the end of time…
Avid copied it but didn’t get it right.
Now in FCPx there are no tracks… but surely there is an ‘all clips forward’ command? or similar?
(e.g. I want to select all clips on the primary storyline and ‘lift from storyline’)
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Nope. It’s the magnetic timeline, baby!
Oliver
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[Trevor Asquerthian] “(e.g. I want to select all clips on the primary storyline and ‘lift from storyline’)”
Hover your cursor over the first clip and hit “c” to select. Go to the last clip you want in the primary, hold shift and select that clip.
Everything in between the first and last clip will get selected in the primary.
Hit command-option-uparrow. Everything but gaps will get moved out of the primary.
Jeremy
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Thanks, I had figured the click / shift click. Keyboard will always beat the mouse 😉
Hopefully TTTT will make it back in some guise… (without the tracks, of course)
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[Trevor Asquerthian] ”
Hopefully TTTT will make it back in some guise… (without the tracks, of course)
“Just curious.
Why would you need it?
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Just grab the beginning/end of a Gap on a storyline, shorten/lenghten it! Tadaaa! Forget lasso, tttt, sh-click! Just ripple trim the Gap!
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Why would you need it?”
T – to select all clips forward on this storyline from the selection point – e.g. to apply the same filter
TT – to select all clips backward on this storyline from the selection point – e.g. to delete them
TTT – to select all clips in the storyline at the selection point – e.g. to apply the same surround pan setting
TTTT – To select all the clips & connected clips, in all storylines from the selection point to the end of the timeline – e.g. to drag an opening or close a gap.
The question is the same as ‘why would you need to select any clip or selection of clips?’ really.
Why I would want to select them *that way* is that it’s quick… keyboard, click in one place and away we go.
T doesn’t make sense as they are no longer tracks.
Also a feature that allowed quick selection by roles could prove very useful.
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[Trevor Asquerthian] “TTTT – To select all the clips & connected clips, in all storylines from the selection point to the end of the timeline – e.g. to drag an opening or close a gap.”
I don’t disagree that there are some T-type features missing that it would be good to have back, but this particular one is what gaps are ideally suited to addressing:
Insert, delete or trim a gap to achieve what you are describing.
To my mind this is quite a lot better than TTTT because of how the clip connections keep everything pretty much where you’d hope it to be.
Conversely with TTTT (or for the truly initiated Shift T, which is sooo much handier), you would often have to make fiddly extra selections or deselections, and transitions would often get picked up (or not) when you didn’t want them to be.
Simon Ubsdell
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[Simon Ubsdell] ”
Conversely with TTTT”Actually neither of us meant TTTT which is select everything backwards – what you described and what I meant to comment on was TTT which is select everything forwards.
Also, for the sake of clarity, the preferable shortcut for TTT that I was referring to is to hit T once and then hold down the Shift key so that the tool becomes the equivalent of having hit TTT.
Simon Ubsdell
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[Trevor Asquerthian] “T – to select all clips forward on this storyline from the selection point – e.g. to apply the same filter”
Select in storyline. I could see how that might be useful. You can easily do this with a lasso or shift click today.
[Trevor Asquerthian] “TT – to select all clips backward on this storyline from the selection point – e.g. to delete them”
Same thing. Also, if you select primary clips and delete, all connected clips will get deleted too.
Same for triple t.
[Trevor Asquerthian] “TTTT – To select all the clips & connected clips, in all storylines from the selection point to the end of the timeline – e.g. to drag an opening or close a gap.”
This is where the magnetic timeline helps. So place a gap in a timeline, simply select a starting pony and hit option-w. then select that gap, hit control-d and type a duration, or simply trim that gap. Alternatively, you could use the position tool to move clips in the primary apart, but you must shift select from the selection point forward.
[Trevor Asquerthian] “The question is the same as ‘why would you need to select any clip or selection of clips?’ really.”
The reason I asked is I wanted to see how you were using it.
[Trevor Asquerthian] “Also a feature that allowed quick selection by roles could prove very useful.”
I agree. You can do it now in the timeline index by typing in the name of the Role in the search bubble and selecting the clips in the index which will select clips on the timeline, but it’s not super efficient and could be better. It will work, though.
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If you have a storyline or sequence 30 minutes long or more it’s really handy to be able to select everything forward of the timeline…I don’t see how gaps gets around the very handy t, tt, and ttt tool in FCP 7. Surely there must be a way???
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