swapping two shots

[Andrew Kimery]

I was hoping for Yakety Sax.

[James Ewart]

How easily one forgets.

lt is utterly brilliant.

[Robin S. kurz]

😀 … nice. To think that some are literally still having to do the exact same timeline Tango with the most current version of their NLE. Unless there were some MAJOR changes in other NLEs that I missed? And the same people make sure to never miss a beat when it comes time to tell everyone what a massive f***-up the magnetic timeline is, how Apple betrayed them, yadda yadda yadda… 😉

– RK

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[Steve Connor]

Nice!

[Bret Williams]

Do I have to be the one who makes the video showing the correct way to actually swap shots in FCP 7? Yeah it’s a little easier in X, but there is a swap command. Just marquee the clips, hold option if I remember right, and drag to the new location and the two will swap. It’s a little magnetic timeline-like function that’s been there since 1999.

All the same issues with your music going out of sync will still apply in both apps.

[Robin S. kurz]

[Bret Williams] “Do I have to be the one who makes the video showing the correct way to actually swap shots in FCP 7?”

You could be. But then I’d have to be the one that tells you

a) that doesn’t work if dragging multiple clips (say a V1 with V2 clip). No resulting gaps are closed

and

b) that even then it wouldn’t work, because that wouldn’t solve the massive clip collisions that he has in this video (notice the little, oh so well known timeline-tango he does at 0:09 and 0:13), for which there’s no shortcut that could spare you that.

… unless of course you were fine with truncating various audio-clips uncontrollably. In which case, you’re right. Same thing. 😉

Otherwise your assertion is unfortunately false.

– RK

p.s. I just double-checked a) btw, just to be sure.

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[Bret Williams]

You’re right I think. Bad memory. That cool little function in 7 only works in T mode with single clips. So a single clip swap. I could’ve sworn I’ve done it with entire sections at a time. But doesn’t seem to work in 7. My bad.

However it certainly isn’t as hard as that video made it out to be. A simple copy and paste insert would’ve been a better start.

[Robin S. kurz]

[Bret Williams] “However it certainly isn’t as hard as that video made it out to be. A simple copy and paste insert would’ve been a better start.”

Oh c’mon Bret. b) would still apply.

Fact is, like it or not, there is no way of doing the same anywhere near as simple and fast in any other track-based NLE as with X, as… surprise surprise… the video illustrates perfectly. No one is saying it can’t be done AT ALL elsewhere.

– RK

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[Bret Williams]

Attemp to save face thwarted. Must resist urge to delete original post… 🙂

[Robin S. kurz]

+1 for trying though. ;-D

– RK

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