Timeline in/out?

[Matt Callac]

[Brad Baker] “As I understand it, you can no longer set any in or out points in the timeline. Somehow my timeline has them, and I’m unable to move/delete/etc. When I export only the media between the in/out points is output.

Anyone else seen this?”

Glad you attached a picture. or else I’d have been really confused b/c my timeline does not have in/out brackets…..neither does yours.

You are in a compound clip.

Compound clips can be used as a workaround for setting an In/Out for exporting from your timeline. Select your clips compound them. open the compound clip the export…then hit undo till your compound clip is gone.

-mattyc

[Simon Ubsdell]

[Matt Callac] “hit undo till your compound clip is gone”

Or use Shift/Cmd/G to break it apart …

Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
http://www.tokyo-uk.com

[Matt Callac]

[Simon Ubsdell] “Or use Shift/Cmd/G to break it apart …”

I just assumed use undo b/c I was thinking that sometimes you’d have to use the blade to cut parts of a clip that didn’t need to be on your xport. that was a couple undos would get you to your timeline.

-mattyc

[Brad Baker]

Ahhhhh, got it. Thanks guys.

[Tony Silanskas]

And you could always cross your fingers that those little guys will eventually become In and Out points for the timeline. =) It wouldn’t be the first thing in FCP X that isn’t mentioned anywhere in the manual but is in the program in a currently unusable form (like the Audio Properties of Music, Dialog, Sound Effects, etc.).

tony

http://www.HungryCliff.com

[Simon Ubsdell]

[Tony Silanskas] “a currently unusable form (like the Audio Properties of Music, Dialog, Sound Effects, etc.).”

Actually, there’s been a lot of talk about this “hidden feature” but I think from looking more closely at it today that it’s more of a toy feature for routing your audio in a surround context – the “default” audio output configuration – any easy, no-brainer routing solution that sends the dialogue to the centre, the music left and right and whatever. It may well do a kind of fake surround with stereo stuff (e.g. “ambience”) – but not having surround monitoring connected to my MBP I’m not really in a position to answer that definitively. I don’t now think it’s the kind of audio grouping thing that a lot of people have been hoping it might be.

Though I could be very wrong 😉

Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
http://www.tokyo-uk.com

[Tony Silanskas]

Yah and I think you and I discussed this on here somewhere this past week. Just felt like bringing up the fact Apple enjoys secrecy and surprising people since there isn’t a written explanation (that I have found anyway) of what it does. Maybe Apple is wanting us to tell them. =) They put it there and are like, “We think this could be something professional but don’t know what to do with it yet so let the real editors figure it out for us.”

I’m just joking with this but I think we all need some humor after this past week.

tony

http://www.HungryCliff.com

[Jonathan Hickman]

I’m having this problem and don’t really understand why I should export the edited compound clip project and create another one.

First, I can’t understand why this new FCP doesn’t allow you to export parts of a timeline (project or what we used to call a sequence). That is a whole other issue.

Second, the problem I’m having is that I created a synchronized clip (synced sound with my ILC and my video camera), dumped it into the timeline (project) and then I’m locked into the length of the compound clip on that timeline (project). You can edit that compound clip, but the timeline is locked into a specific length.

Here’s the problem, I can’t add anything to say the middle of that compound clip without going beyond the length of the original synchronized (compound) clip length.

So, for example, if I add a new clip into the middle of the compound clip, and it pushes beyond the in and out points set by the compound, it will not export the entire timeline. The whole show I’m cutting is around 22 minutes, but the compound edited clips is 13 minutes. Anything beyond the 13 will not export.

Can’t I just turn that off and get on with editing?