[David Lawrence]

[Oliver Peters] “I think that’s descriptive enough. Yes, you overwrite. No, it’s not destructive.”

Yep, exactly right.

“Destructive” in the NLE context is actually a technical term. It should be used accurately.

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[Bret Williams] “And if I scroll my mouse up and down while hovering over the timeline, I DO NOT want it to go left and right. As far as I can tell the only way to scroll up or down is to use the little bar on the right.

Can I turn off the zoom in/out effect when I scroll my mouse when hovered over the canvas too? AE does this as well and it drives me batty when I touch my mouse and it zooms into 5000% or something.”

This isn’t a problem if you use USB Overdrive:

https://www.usboverdrive.com/USBOverdrive/Information.html

It lets you customize every button and wheel action on your mouse and you can create different actions for different applications. I use it with the Logitech Anywhere Mouse MX and I have complete control over scrolling and zooming in Premiere (and everything else I use). It’s a great tool and well worth the low price. Highly recommended.

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[TImothy Auld] “And that’s great David. But I suggest you go a few posts back before you accuse me of being uncivil.”

Tim, I only saw your recent post, but if it helps, I’m directing my statement to everyone –

Hey everyone – let’s keep it civil, on topic, and talk about the cool stuff. It’s much more fun. Thanks.

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[TImothy Auld] “And if you go so far as to tell us about your f*#king Emmy, then, pray, tell us what you got your f*#king Emmy for.”

Tim, I started this thread to share a new FCPX workflow I’m very excited about. I apologize if in my enthusiasm, my use of the word “universal” offended you. Perhaps it would have been more accurate to say “universal for any NLE that reads XML.” Apologies.

None the less, I’m using this workflow with researchers in the field right now and it’s working brilliantly.

Let’s keep this thread civil and on topic please.

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[Richard Herd] “Thanks again. I tried that and it did not work. In a minute I will try again with the following change. I will put the clip in the timeline and then edit the subclip.”

I don’t think it’ll work from the timeline. You need to make it a master clip with in and out set to the subclip range before you put it on the timeline.

Make sure that the sub clip is loaded in the source viewer then set in and out for the entire sub clip duration. Then select the subclip in the browser and select the Edit Subclip… menu.

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[Craig Alan] “I think this would work.

Forgive me if this has been covered.

Select range or clip in the timeline.

copy then paste as a connected clip or any where it is convenient.

position tool drag the copied clip where you want to overwrite.”

Thank you Craig. Yes this does work, but I want it to work completely from the keyboard without having to use a mouse. AFAIK, this can’t be done. I’d be happy to be proven wrong.

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[Andy Neil] “David’s desire for a paste overwrite is more likely because it can be accomplished without an extra shortcut. Simply work the code so that copy/paste inserts if you have the selection tool active, and overwrites if you have the position tool active.”

[Charlie Austin] “If David was talking about copy/pasting from the browserI totally agree. Theres no reason I can think of to do that. But I do think the ability to paste overwrite into a primary an secondary could be useful, as well as being able to paste from outside a secondary into it if you select it. Again, I actually didn’t realize you couldn’t because I never do, but I don’t think adding another (modifier)-V command would hurt…”

Exactly! That’s all I’m talking about – having another modifier key that overwrite pastes instead of the default insert paste.

And just to be clear, I’m not talking about using the browser. Just the opposite. I want to be able to select a range, cut or copy, and overwrite paste directly from the primary into the primary. I don’t want to go back to the browser at all.

[Andy Neil] “The only time I found copy/paste to be that effective as a tool in editing was using it to copy/paste clips from clips already in the sequence or from one sequence to another.”

Yes, that’s exactly what I’m talking about. I use this technique all the time when cutting dialogue and interviews.

BTW, Shift-F only works if the entire clip is selected. What do you do if you want to select a range inside the primarily and cut/copy or paste from that?

I can option-V paste as connected, then option-command-down to overwrite to primary, but that only overwrites video not audio. Now I have to trim back the incoming clip’s audio that just dropped below what should have been an overwrite. Fail.

I don’t see any easy way to do what should be a trivially simple edit this way, using just the primary.

Am I missing something?

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[Richard Herd] “THANK YOU!!!”

You’re welcome! 😀

I did another CS6 test and it’s actually even easier than I described above –

1) open the subclip in the source browser, mark in and out for the entire sub clip
2) selected the Edit Subclip… menu item
3) check the “convert to master clip” checkbox

Done! No need to re-edit the subclip’s start and end times.

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[Andy Neil] “BTW, how is SHIFT+F and D more of a workaround than CMD+C / CMD+V? I can matchframe/overwrite just as fast as I can copy/paste.”

Glad it works for you Andy, I’m just not interested. I guess 30-years of muscle memory is just too much to break 😉

I’m not talking about anything fancy. I’m talking about copying and pasting from the simplest video clip with one channel of mono audio directly on the timeline without bouncing back and forth to the browser.

Overwrite paste is something even the simplest text editor does with ease. There’s simply no reason why this can’t be an option in FCPX as well. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it! 🙂

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[Charlie Austin] “And David… it is a pretty cool use of fcpxml huh? I’d bet there’s more to come. And you really ought try to cut in X again since you’ll be spending some time in it now. 🙂 It’s pretty damn awesome.”

Way cool, Charlie. I look forward to seeing how it evolves. 🙂

I’ll probably do some tinkering and quick assemblies but for me, that timeline still needs work.

I don’t even care about tracks. I’d settle for being able to select, copy, and overwrite paste both audio and video directly in the primary. I do this all the time when cutting dialogue and interviews. It’s one of the simplest possible things an NLE can do, right? I mean really… there’s no excuse for any workarounds. As soon as paste with audio overwrite becomes possible, I’ll be much more interested in cutting in X.

Until then, it’s still cool to be able to use it, especially on this particular project!

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