One of the best features in FCP7

[Jeremy Garchow]

You simply “move” clips in the primary storyline by trimming with position tool or other method (insert edit) and everything moves.

What do you need to do precisely?

[James Ewart]

Well I would like to select everything in front of my played…including stuff I cannot see and move it forwards to create a bigger gap…or even just delete it all without having to zoom out of time line and physically “lasso” it all.
I have been using FCP since version 1.2 and understand I have to learn this software from scratch and am beginning to see how profound it is in certain ways but selecting everything in front of the timeline “ttt” was very useful and I am not sure FCPX has a replication for this very useful function.
If I am in a twenty minute timeline and want to delete everything from ten minutes forwards of the pay head how would I select only that which was to the right of the playhead?
Thanks for your help

[Jeremy Garchow]

Select the last clip you want to delete in the primary.

Shift Select the first clip in the primary press delete.

[James Ewart]

Thanks for this I’m all to aware of the shift click….but in a long timeline it’s a rather convoluted compared to FCP 7 “ttt”
Hopefully a shortcut they will add but along with snapping and now the dreaded “p” tool to deactivate magnetic timeline “select all tracks forward or back” is the tool I miss the most in FCPX. I would also like to. E able to perma enu toggle on and off the MT
Thanks for the feedback

[James Ewart]

and if you have a fourth and fifth and sixth layer some ten minutes or more down the timeline you need to be able to make sure you are selecting EVERYTHING before you shunt the three layers you can see forwards down the timeline or they will remain in place. And that just messes it all up.

Without the “ttt/tt” (select all tracks forwards or backwards) this is impossible without having to zoom out first which, quite frankly, is a massive pain in the neck.

I have tried to get to grips with it but I jet don’t think this software cuts it for projects of any duration over the length of what you can see in the timeline.

Have you worked much with FCP7 or Premiere or Avid?

[Jeremy Garchow]

[James Ewart] “and if you have a fourth and fifth and sixth layer some ten minutes or more down the timeline you need to be able to make sure you are selecting EVERYTHING before you shunt the three layers you can see forwards down the timeline or they will remain in place. And that just messes it all up.

Without the “ttt/tt” (select all tracks forwards or backwards) this is impossible without having to zoom out first which, quite frankly, is a massive pain in the neck.

I have tried to get to grips with it but I jet don’t think this software cuts it for projects of any duration over the length of what you can see in the timeline.”

I hear you, but FCPX is different is really my only response. The timeline works very very different and therefore the timeline is organized differently and it takes some getting used to. Selecting all forward or all backward isn’t as necessary as it is in track based editors once you know how the timeline “moves”. Since everything is related to the primary storyline, and if you extend/contract the primary storyline, everything will move on lock step. If you need to move specific items, you will need to select them, just like any other NLE.

And to qualify your answer, yes, I’ve been editing in Final Cut Legend daily for 10 years, media 100 for years before that, and Avid before that, but I don’t count my avid years as I was a pup.

If you give me some screen grabs, I would live to help you out. I’m not saying you have to like FCPX, but I’m willing to help you. Also, why dread the position tool? It really is more fcp7 like when editing with that tool on all the time (without tracks of course).

You can also use the zoom tool to move in and out of the timeline fairly easily.

Jeremy

[James Ewart]

OK thanks.

I really want to like it because I can see the beauty of it…

But I think I
ve nailed it…you extend right the gap before the clips and then they ALL move…if you try and shunt clips it doesn’t work but if there is a nice gap in front of them 9 to the left) then that works a that.

It’s hard to learn to work in a completely different way.

The occasionally you see the light!

Takes me back to my early traumas eleven odd years ago!

I appreciate your feedback

Thanks