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Opening a selection from timeline clip into viewer
I am tearing my hair out. I have just moved over from avid and I cannot find a way to do this:
1. Mark an in and out on a clip in the sequence.
2. Load that particular selection into the viewer (either on its own or as the master clip with the in and out just marked).When I try to do a match frame it won’t take the new in/outs into the viewer but just shows the full clip’s in and outs.
I’m sure you must be able to do this in FCP.
I am currently reading through “Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors” and in there it claims that:
“If you initiate a match from the Timeline or Canvas, your source will appear in the Viewer with the marks used in the sequence clip and the playhead parked on the matching frame”The trouble is that it doesn’t. The newly created marks do not appear there. The marks that come up in the Viewer are the original ones marking the beginning and ending of the clip in the Timeline.
This is driving me mad so any help would be very appreciated.
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Marking In and Out on the timeline ruler will not load that section into the Viewer. Only a clip can be loaded into the viewer. Even if you have a portion of the clip marked in the timeline ruler, whole clip will load into the viewer as it is marked in the timeline.
The book is exactly correct. “The newly created marks do not appear there. The marks that come up in the Viewer are the original ones marking the beginning and ending of the clip in the Timeline.” This paragraph exactly confirms what the book is saying. Match frame loads the browser clip marked with the same in and out points that are on the clip in the sequence. Marking In and Out points on the timeline ruler have no affect on the match frame function at all.
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 3.5 HD Editing Workshop” -
So, that is not something that people do in FCP?
In avid it can be pretty handy to be able to just load up a selection in the viewer.
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That’s not the way the Viewer works in FCP. It’s for single items only, either single clips, graphics, text, or a nested sequence. It does not load a section of a clip or a section of the timeline. It’s a source monitor in the traditional linear tape sense.
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 3.5 HD Editing Workshop”
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