Trim in and out….

[Jeremy Garchow]

As FCPs layers work totally different than AE layers, this process doesn’t work the same. In AE, each piece of video is it’s own layer, in FCP, you have a track that can contain multiple pieces of video. SO in AE you can trim that one layer, but in FCP you would have to define which piece of video to trim, which could really screw you up as it would ripple the whole track and possibly knock your whole timeline out of sync. That being said, there are multiple ways to do this. The easiest way to do what you want to do is simply blade the clip and delete the part you don’t want.

B to bring up the blade, click on the clip on where to trim, select the extraneous video and press delete.

The other (and possibly better for you) way to do it is to load the clip in to the viewer from the timeline by double clicking it. You will notice that the little scrub bar on the bottom of the viewer is full of dots. That means that this clip is in a timeline. If you were to load a clip form the browser, the scrub bar would have no dots. Anyway, double click the clip in the timeline to load in to the viewer then simply mark you in and out points. NLEs usually follow a three point edit system while AE does not.

Jeremy

[Dave Hirschberg]

Thanks Jeremy. I have been doing the old blade and delete for years now and I’m just frustrated because the old NLE I used to work on had the function I am looking for. I was able to turn off the ripple so that when I trimmed, it didn’t move all the layers around. While I understand that it works differently than AE, I still would like a way to combine the blade and delete into a single key stroke or shortcut. Just saves time.

Dave

Dave Hirschberg
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[Jeremy Garchow]

Did you try the other method?

[Kylee Pena]

Another way to do this which I think would be closest (ish) to the way AE does it would be to position your playhead where you want the cut to be, select the edit point of the clip you want to be trimmed to that point, and hit the E key.

Illustrated: https://www.geniusdv.com/weblog/archives/extending_an_edit_in_final_cut_pro.php

[Dave Hirschberg]

Yep but again… it is adding additional steps. I’m being picky, I know…. it’s just frustrating. I LOVE this program, this is just a little shortcoming I guess.

Dave

Dave Hirschberg
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Art Director | WNJU Telemundo/NBC
2200 Fletcher Ave 6th Floor Fort Lee, NJ 07024
Office: 201.969.4204 | Cell: 201.304.1057
david.hirschberg@nbcuni.com

[Jeremy Garchow]

Nice one. That’s it!

Jeremy

[Dave Hirschberg]

DAMN that is almost it!!!!! Exactly what I’m looking for save for having to select the head or tail of the clip. Thanks a million. I guess this is better than what I’ve been doing.

Dave

Dave Hirschberg
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Art Director | WNJU Telemundo/NBC
2200 Fletcher Ave 6th Floor Fort Lee, NJ 07024
Office: 201.969.4204 | Cell: 201.304.1057
david.hirschberg@nbcuni.com

[Kylee Pena]

There is a keyboard shortcut for selecting the nearest edit (v) that might make it quicker for you, though I’m not exactly sure how you’re working. If you’re laying things into the timeline by just dragging them and then trimming, you’ll find that finding footage and marking the ins and outs in the viewer and THEN placing them in the timeline is much quicker. But like I said, I’m not exactly sure what you’re doing 🙂

PS If you’re just working with one video track, you’re fine, but when you start using keyboard shortcuts like that V with multple tracks, things won’t work how you expect. Google auto select and source panel.

[Tom Wolsky]

Unfortunately an extend edit is roll edit. I’ve never understood why this cannot be made to work the same way when the edit is selected in ripple mode, but it doesn’t.

One simple way is to activate the ripple tool RR and open the clip into the viewer. Then marking In or Out points will ripple the sequence.

All the best,

Tom

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