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Unlink and DELETE audio and video from frustated FCPx newbie
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[Jeffrey Carter] “On an Avid (and FCP 7), if you wanted a B-roll cutaway in an interview, you would lay it over the video on V1. FCPX doesn’t work that way – you have to connect the B-roll shot above the video (almost like putting it on V2).”
Works just the same for me. I would never put broll in V1. Always above. On Avid, FCP, FCP X. Editing it into V1 would be akin to working with tape to me. Destructive. There is an overwrite command. D. But whether you overwrite video or audio or both, it’s going to delete the video and audio in the sequence where you overwrite. You could of course expand the tracks and extend the audio back under but that would get pretty tiresome after awhile. Just edit as a connected clip.
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Quick nod to editing b-roll in the V1 track. It’s easy-peasy and Bret, it is NOT destructive, in the way I understand destructive.
Once I lay down my “A-roll” soundbite, I select the portion of the bite I want to cover up. Perhaps for a 10 second bite, I want to cover the last 5 seconds. I park the skimmer where I want the b-roll to start, press “I” for In. I find a b-roll shot and hit Q to connect this to the timeline.
Now the easy-peasy part is to drop this connected clip into the primary storyline (OPT-CMD Down-arrow). It automatically covers the video, leaves the audio extended, and it’s simple to take this long b-roll shot and chop it up either using the replace from start (or end) or the D key to put just the shots I want into the cover.
I find editing in the secondary storyline awkward. I cannot use the I and O keys to mark a selection.
Trust me Dionne, connect a long-ish clip onto the timeline with that Q key, then drop it and chop it.
Need to edit a soundbite into bits to clean up a bunch of ums, ahs and pauses? Trim it up in the primary, set an I and an O to cover as much of the video as you’d like. Connect a longish clip with the Q key, then select that connected clip and drop it to the primary. Any clip in the primary that was covered by the connected clip is now an audio only clip. Works great.
Also I recommend that you never detatch your audio from the video unless you absolutely must.
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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.Mark Morache
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Good tips. Obviously no right and wrong way to drive this bus. But I like to always see what portions of V1 is continuous and what parts have been edited together. Helps to know when broll is a neccessary to cover an edit and when it’s “optional.” I like to delete the broll and not be left with a hole. I wouldn’t put broll in a secondary unless a dissolve was needed. That way they’re generally connected to the spot the pertain to.
Whenever I use the D key, it obliterates existing audio btw.
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I totally feel your pain! Im in the same boat and find FCPX to be a real pain in the ass! Why did they not have a “Unlink” feature or in preferences to not unlink anything. Why Apple chose to listen to a hand full of editors to create unecessary features on FCPX was selfish and obviously did not give a s*** about the mass of other Final Cut uesers.
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[Frank Velasco] “If you find out how to “unlink” the “Link” feature please let me know.”
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FWIW, this post is over a year old, and written by someone who had absolutely no clue what they were doing. Doing what the OP described is trivially easy and takes at most 2 keystrokes. Read the Manual.
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I tried it and doesn’t work. Is it because I have 10.1.1?
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[Frank Velasco] “I tried it and doesn’t work. Is it because I have 10.1.1?”
Nope… it’s always been that command, unless I’m misunderstanding. Are you just trying to detach the Audio from a video clip? Like this?
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Detach the audio and video. Copy the audio (command-C) and paste it at the end of the other audio. Delete the video clip. It will take out the original audio with it, but the audio-only copy will still be there.
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Wow. A zombie thread!
Born in 2013. Resurrected for a while in 2014. And back to visit us in 2016!
Sure hope the OP isn’t STILL frustrated after 4 years!
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It was the first link I found when I searched, so after I discovered a solution I thought I’d share it for the next person who finds it!
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