[Gregor Myller]

Since you are using three different clips, you can use the multicam option within FCP.

You select the three clips in the browser part and right click to create a new multicam clip and then select the method of synchronization (audio or timecode) and you get a new clip you can open by double clicking and then you can move any clip around.

Here is a tutorial on YouTube: How to do Multicam Editing in Final Cut Pro | FCPX Tutorial

And here is the search I used to find that: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=final+cut+pro+multicam+editing

If you do not want to use multicam editing, you can insert a gap clip (CMD+W) at the position of the red timeline marker. That moves the clip 3 to the right and you can move clips 2 and 1 to the left.

Or you trim clips 2 and 1 at the beginning, then they can be moved around as well. But multicam editing is the way to go with multiple cameras.

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[Gregor Myller]

This lengthy article helped me overcome my track based thinking: https://library.creativecow.net/austin_charlie/FCPX-Timeline/1

And when I saw this, I was flabbergasted:

It is from this article: https://www.fcp.co/final-cut-pro/articles/1538-how-honda-s-interactive-commercial-the-other-side-was-edited-in-final-cut-pro-x

As I don’t make my main income with video editing, I could try FCP X without a lot of pressure and just decided to edit a music video I shot in it and while it was slow compared to PPro and MC, I could start to see its value.

Since then I converted all my old PPro projects (converted from MC earlier) to FCP X and got rid of Adobe completely, and I don’t regret it.
I am by no means a professional in FCP X, but it helped me edit tremendously. I even could use a pesky 12″ MacBook to edit 26+ “vacation” music videos, which took around two months in my free time. FCP X makes storytelling much easier, even though I am no storyteller. Well.

https://vimeo.com/user74949585

[Gregor Myller]

Hi,

I recently had to rip a BluRay using MakeMKV to get that MKV.

Well, since I was active at some time on MacRumors, wonderful place for negativity, I remembered a small tool Calle Video Container Switcher, programmed by kind user, which could do things like ClipWrap, just for free though. It hasn’t been updated since 2015, but it worked for me to get a workable MOV file, which I then transcoded to ProRes 422 in Compressor for a future project, though FCP X does not have a problem with that H.264 MOV either.

Have a look at this thread: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/small-tool-to-convert-video-containers-without-reencoding.1433969/

[Gregor Myller]

I also have had good experiences with proxies for the rough cut using Multicam objects with 32 angles and 16 being displayed at one time while editing on a 12″ MacBook using a 4TB My Passport drive.

I never thought an NLE could do that, as even Avid MC had problems displaying two DNxHD 120 streams from one 7200 RPM HDD.