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Sliding multiple clips in the timeline
Duplicate a 10 sec video clip 5 times in a timeline.
Select 2nd and 3rd clips
Press S twice to go into slide mode
Slide 1 sec earlier in timeline.
I would expect this to keep 2 & 3 locked in duration and relationshipt to each other by shortening the tail of clip 1 and adding frames to the head of clip 4
Clip 2 now starts at TL 9.00 – as expected BUT is 9 secs long
Clip 3 starts at TL 19.00 – as expected BUT is 11 sec long
Clips 4 starts at TL 29.00 – and is 11 sec long – as expected
So my problem is the slide also moves the edit point between clips 2 and 3… is this normal behaviour? I can’t see why anyone would use slide on multiple clips if it is because you can’t predict what you are doing.
Here’s an example (slid 9 secs for effect)
Before:
After :
What I Expected:
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2 Replies
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yeah, you cant slide multiple clips in FCP lie you can in Avid.
what happens is always really weird.
i cant even figure out what it’s trying to do!if you want to work like that, best way so to drag the range of clips up to V2,
extend the ends of the clips on V1, and just NUDGE the V2 clips as a group.nick
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It seems to do a trim in 4 places at once… a ‘slide’ around the 2 clips and a roll edit on the edit in between… presumably on all the edits in between.
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