Send clip to another program from FCP

[Tom Wolsky]

Going to Soundtrack and going to Motion work slightly differently but basically, yes both those functions work in FCP4.5. To Soundtrack you export a sequence or a range in a sequence, to Motion you export selected clips from the timeline. FCP’s fine with 10.3.9.

[Ed Stevens]

I really appreciate the reply. I am very new to a MAC and FCP, about 2 months. How do you do the tasks that you spoke of?
ED

[Bill Lee]

“I really appreciate the reply. I am very new to a MAC and FCP, about 2 months. How do you do the tasks that you spoke of?
ED”

There are two ways of editing clips/material outside of FCP:
1) External Editors,
2) Export and Import.

An External Editor allows you to edit a clip in an external editor and when you save it from your external editing program, FCP will recognise the file has been updated and automatically update it in your timeline without you having to reimport it and reapply Motion effects, Filters or Transitions. Setting this up is described on p184 of the online manual for FCP 4.5.

Exporting a clip, working on it with another application, reimporting it and reapplying effects works, but is so much more complicated than using an external editor. One way of doing this is to use the Batch Export command, which is the easiest way to export existing individual clips for further processing, or to mark a selection in the timeline and export this from the File menu.

Could I suggest that if you are new to FCP, you will get so much more out of the program and become productive so much faster if you take a FCP training course. The standard book used in FCP training is part of the Apple Pro Training series, and can be worked though as self-paced training or as leader-led training. You can buy the book, work through it and if it seems beyond you then you can look at the leader-led training. You’ll be able to find out the shortcuts to productivity from the trainer: questions that appear in this forum on a regular basis. Final Cut Pro allows you a huge amount of freedom to create your workflow – but it can be a freedom that allows you to work very inefficiently or very efficiently. In addition, there is a Prometric test at the end of the training that passing makes you FCP Certified, quite useful if you are trying to sell yourself as a freelance editor to new customers and clients.

Bill Lee

[Ed Stevens]

Thanks very much.
Also I am puzzled about which board to buy. I have a Decklink Extreme and I think it’s defective. The audio capture is ditorted.
I cannot get anyone to respond to my post in the Decklink section.
I was thinking of the AJA io for now and the Kona2 whenI get a demand for HD. Some say the IO has a delay in editing. Can you tell
me what works for you?
Thanks again
ED

[Bill Lee]

Name: Ed Stevens
Date: Apr 24, 2005 at 17:56 gmt
Subject: Re: Send clip to another program from FCP

Ed says:
“Also I am puzzled about which board to buy. I have a Decklink Extreme and I think it’s defective. The audio capture is distorted.
I cannot get anyone to respond to my post in the Decklink section. ”

Some of the Decklink guys were over at NAB, or coming back from NAB, and for others there was the long weekend caused by the commemoration of ANZAC day, combined with a problem with the mail script on the Decklink web site. Kristian Lam on the Decklink forum has asked that support emails to a particular support address (not reproduced here to avoid spammer spidering).

“I was thinking of the AJA io for now and the Kona2 whenI get a demand for HD. Some say the IO has a delay in editing. Can you tell me what works for you?”

My testing has shown all three seem to work fine. If you already have the Decklink, then why spend more money (assuming that the Decklink card is not faulty)? Which is best for you depends on your setup and the type of video you will be working with.

Bill Lee