[Joseph Barnett]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for your post. that works but I was more thinking of an option where you could group a section of clips and maintain there cut points and position. Then turn them off again as a group if you wanted to move them individually.

Thanks again.

Joe

[Joseph Barnett]

Okay, thanks for your posts though very much appreciated. Just out of interest though outside of my problem there isn’t a function to group a set of clips as segments say if I was happy with a section of a sequence and wanted it to act as one clip just for the purposes of drop and drag around the timeline with the arrow tool? You have answered already I know in relation to my problem, but I just wanted to double check there wasn’t a simple fix keeping a segment linked for quick drop and drag. thanks again, im always amzed and thankful how helpful people are on forums like these.

Joe

[Joseph Barnett]

Hi Jerry,

Sorry my previous post is a little jumbled. Essentially what im looking for is an option that if I command clip several clips, I can then set them so they act as one. so if I where to click on anyone of them they would all highlight and I could slip them as a group.

Thanks for the reply. Much appreciated. Below is a detailed short novel of the initial problem that forced me to search for this function. Joe

The background to my initial Problem:

I had a project that took over and had to recapture and reconnect master clips in order to output a full res output (i used their emailed project file). The problem was that one of the low res QT clips they worked off had dropped frames, but final cut had read as a continuous TC. The clip was heavily cut into the main sequence, but I found it actually fell into 3 sections on the sequence. For simplicity lets say every 10 minutes on the sequence on that particular reel I had a frame difference, say first 10mins was 2 frames second 10 minutes was 3 and the last 4. i used the search function to isolate the reel on the sequence, then I could easily slip. I could of course correct one segment, but then when I search again it brought up all of them including the corrected ones. I figured if there was a way i group/gang them into 3 sections then i could easily turn them off and on for slipping. I had to get the project out, so eventually i just raced through and slipped them according to the offline. But ive used simular group/gang functions in other editing aplications but I can’t for the life of me find it a simular tool in FCP.

[Joseph Barnett]

Hello all,

Im having the same problem, how do i change the bitrate manually as it always seems to appear greyed out?

Any advice gratefully received.

Thanks

Joe