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Set Clip Range
Just trying to figure the X “set Clip range” shortcut.
Can’t quite figure what it does that other tools don’t…simply moving the skimmer over a clip and hitting X dos not seem to do much for me.
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Set Clip Range (X) works in the event browser. Hold your cursor over the clip and hit X. It will range select the entire clip. The equivalent in the timeline is the C key (by default).
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Thanks okay got it… I just click on it at the moment…I don’t find clicking to be so much extra work but most people seem to find it rather tedious it seems. I kind of like clicking…feels like I’m splicing a piece of film.
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The reason for the c key is pretty obvious. Clicking on a clip moves the playhead which you often don’t want. I often work with skimming off, but even then clicking moves the playhead.
X also works in the timeline. I think it sets a range instead of selecting the clip, but for most purposes it’s the same thing.
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One of the changes in 10.06 is you can now park the playhead and if you click in the timeline where the skimmer is the playhead does not move until you click in the bar at the top…but if you click in a clip the playhead dos not come and reintroduce itself in a rather antisocial way. I think I read Apple admitted this was a bug
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[Bret Williams] “The reason for the c key is pretty obvious. Clicking on a clip moves the playhead which you often don’t want. I often work with skimming off, but even then clicking moves the playhead.
Not anymore. 🙂
[Bret Williams] X also works in the timeline. I think it sets a range instead of selecting the clip, but for most purposes it’s the same thing.”
In the timeline, X selects a range defined by whatever clip (or chunk of gap/slug) in the primary storyline the playhead is positioned over. The c key still selects whatever clip (connected or primary) your pointer is hovering over…
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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
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well for me even with skimming off if I click a clip n the timeline the playhead does not come and say hello but remains obediently where I left it until I click in the bar above…but I may have got the wrong end of the stick.
On one hand I understand new software needs new language…on the other I think the wider (Avid, FCP7 and premiere0 communities would embrace the software more readily if there were not a new language to learn.
i’m kind of enjoying being a pioneer but I am not an online editor with transmission deadlines
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well for me even with skimming off if I click a clip n the timeline the playhead does not come and say hello but remains obediently where I left it until I click in the bar above.
Click on a clip in the timeline and the playhead remains…click above clips in timeline and playhead will mosey over and say hello.
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James, I think you misread Charlie. He agreed with you. I hadn’t noticed this new functionality. If its true, then your original assertion of what’s the point between pressing c or clicking a clip holds true. There is no difference and pressing c instead of simply pressing the mouse is pretty pointless.
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In find hover c much faster than hover click, especially with a Wacom.
Please don’t kill all that’s good about fcpx becuase it does some things differently.
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I must try a wacom…I think the are more ergonomic and might help me with shoulder issues?
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