[Andy Neil]

If you’re using the trim tool, you should be able to perform a roll edit on clips in a secondary storyline. This doesn’t work if the clips are merely connected clips, so maybe that’s your problem?

Andy

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[Andy Neil]

No. Not really. It just means that your camera records the video anamorphically because it doesn’t have a large enough sensor to record the pixels at full resolution. Your final video would be viewed 1280×720 anyway.

Andy

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[Andy Neil]

Either you’re not understanding my point, or I have no idea what you mean. Your first post mentioned a 4 camera multiclip with 4 tracks of audio (1 for each camera). You said that you wanted to keep the audio as is and only edit the video.

I was suggesting that you lay the audio into the timeline separate because then it’s not part of the multiclip which only allows for audio from one camera.

You mentioned that you were taking the audio from each camera, exporting it and bringing it back into FCPX. I was saying that’s not necessary since the audio is already in your project. So clearly there is some element I don’t understand about your workflow.

Have you already edited the audio from your original multiclip and now want to edit more, but only video? That’s the only thing I can think of that fits with the other things you’re saying.

Andy

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[Andy Neil]

There’s no need to export the audio and reimport it. you can add the audio to your project using the individual camera clips and just edit audio only into the timeline. This keeps your audio tracks separate from your multiclip and then you just cut between video angles.

Andy

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[Andy Neil]

You can do this by creating custom titles in Motion and the applying them in FCP X. If you’re not sure how to to it, you can check out my tutorial here:

Motion Quick Tip: Custom Titles for FCP X

It doesn’t address the specific animation you’re talking about, but there are text behaviors inside Motion that will animate tracking or scale or individual letter position. Once you have the animation working in Motion, then you can save it as a reusable title template in FCPX.

Andy

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[Andy Neil]

[Advanced Spectrum] “I wanted to add an additional clip to an existing multi-cam clip I already have in FCPX and have started making cuts. “

Select the multiclip in the browser, double click it to open the Angle Editor. Click the down-facing arrow on any of the angle tracks and choose Add Angle from the menu.

Drag and drop new clip into the empty angle. Select it and whatever clip you are using for monitoring, and from that same dropdown menu, choose synchronize selection to monitoring angle.

[Advanced Spectrum] “Also, it appears I can’t see the additional clip once I have imported it in the Event Library.”

You have some kind of filtering on preventing you from seeing your imported clip. Make sure that you don’t have a collection selected instead of the entire event. Make sure that view menu isn’t filtering clips.

Andy

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[Andy Neil]

There’s actually a fairly easy way to do this. I’m going to make a few assumptions about your project so correct me if I’m wrong about what you’re trying to do.

I’m assuming you want the video to remain upside right while it orbits the text layer. This is easily achieved using the Motion Path behavior.

First, create your text layer and place in the center of your project (you can place everything in a group and move it all later.

Create your four drop zones and place them around the text. You’ll probably want to make sure that each drop zone is set distance away from your text, but considering the 16×9 nature of most frame aspects, the top and bottom zones will likely be closer to the text than the left and right ones.

This will mean your orbit will be an elliptical one instead of circular. But don’t worry, if that assumption is wrong, this technique works with circular orbital paths as well.

Then grab your circular shape tool and starting from the center, drag out an ellipse, holding down the OPT button so that the ellipse draws from the center outward. Basically drag it out until the edges of the ellipse run through the center of each drop zone that you have placed. When you get it close, release the mouse to finish the ellipse.

In the inspector, click the reset transformation button (the curved arrow at the top right of the properties tab) to center the ellipse. Then in the shape tab, deselect Fill and select Outline.

Select your first drop zone and go to Behaviors/Basic Motion/Motion Path. In the behaviors tab, change the Path Shape to Geometry. Then drag your shape ellipse into the shape well for the behavior.

To copy the behavior to the other drop zones, just select it in the layers pane, hold down OPT and drag onto the next drop zone layer. Once all the drop zones have the behavior on them, go into the behaviors tab for drop zone 2 and change the offset to 25 percent. Change drop zone 3’s offset to 50 percent, and drop zone 4’s to 75 percent. That will realign all the drop zones to the positions you initially had them in.

And you’re done. Shorten or lengthen the behaviors to adjust the speed of the orbit.

Andy

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[Andy Neil]

Yeah, some of the transitions will affect layers below them. Here’s how you can use them for titles and other overlays.

Select the Zoom Blur transition, right click and choose: Open Copy in Motion.

When Motion opens, deactivate the drop zone layer called Transition B.

Save As: Call the new transition Zoom Blur OUT for Titles, or something. Save it to the same category: Blurs.

Back in FCPX, apply the Zoom Blur OUT for Titles onto the end of your title and it should work as needed.

Couple of caveats:

This new transition only works for flyouts. If you want to Zoom Blur IN as well, you need to create another copy where you deactivate the Transition A layer and not Transition B.

Also, you will continue to have this Zoom Blur Copy transition in your effects browser unless you delete it manually. There’s nothing wrong with that, but I don’t like to have multiple copies of the same transition lying around. To delete it, go to your Movies folder on your system drive. Then navigate to Motion Templates/Transitions/Blurs and there you can delete the Copy project. You’ll also see your modified project there in case you ever want to get rid of it later.

Hope this helps.

Andy

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[Andy Neil]

There would not be a need for another shortcut. Simply a designation that gaps can be edited into secondary storylines as well as primaries.

For example, if you want to insert a clip from your event browser into your project, you hit W. If you want to do the same into a secondary storyline, you simply select the storyline bar to make it active and then hit W. It’s the same shortcut for both functions, you’re just telling X which storyline you want to insert the clip. That’s what I’m talking about.

Andy

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[Andy Neil]

[Kyle Bass] “In a secondary storyline, can’t you just use the position tool in combination with the plus and minus keys?”

Yes, but you have to first select all the clips to the right of where you want the gap or risk overwriting one clip with another. Having an “insert gap” shortcut respecting the active storyline would be much faster/easier.

Andy

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