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Vegas does it easy…FCP wants to make it hard.
Thanks in advance to any Vegas users who also use FCP.
When you drag a clip in the Vegas timeline, the preview shows the video scrubbing under the current playhead position. Perform the same simple process in the FCP timeline and you get black, two-up displays. Any way to make the FCP Canvas diplay a single image of the video at the current playhead position?
Also, any way to make FCP default to create a crossfade when two clips are overlapped, as Vegas does?
Thanks mucho.
Warren Sampson
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I’m not entirely sure I understand your first question, but it sounds like you are using the slip tool, so FCP is showing the in and out frames of the clip on the timeline. This is fairly handy once you get used to it. You could double-click the shot back into the source window and scrub thru it there, but you won’t be able to modify it past in or out points previously selected.
Question two: Instead of dragging shots from the source window to the the timeline, drag them over the “canvas” and hover a moment. Options will appear to do either insert or overwrite edits, with or without transitions (and some other options.) If you want to do an insert edit with transition, drop the clip into the appropriate box and the shot with transition will be added at the cusor position or in point.
Or…mark your clip in source viewer, hit F9 for insert, shift-F9 for insert with transistion, or F10/shift-F10 for overwrite edits. There’s a place to change the default transition, but I don’t recall how at the moment.
Don’t get me started on what a pain FCP can be. Vegas spoiled me.
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