Mark Morache
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Robert Jan…
The trim functions act normally for me. These all shorten clips.
I’m finding this issue when I extend the end of a clip.
If I want to extend the end of a clip, to the point where it rolls completely over another clip, it doesn’t.
It extend the end of the clip up to the point where it will leave exactly one frame of the clip you are rolling over.
If that clip you are rolling over is gap, it will leave a zero frame clip.
This might just be another time I need to rethink the way I edit, but I enjoy having full use of all the trimming controls, and I seem to keep bumping into walls where I expect to find doors.
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I’m calling it FCX. They took the “pro” out, so I will too.
I’ll reconsider after the first upgrade.Mark Morache
Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
blogging at https://fcpx.wordpress.com -
After you roll out an edit to make the gap nothing, check the timeline index. (SHFT-CMD-2) I think you will see in the list a gap that you can’t see in the timeline.
Select the gap in the timeline index, and open the inspector. (CMD-4). Select the “info” tab. It shows the info for the gap, and I see that the gap has a length of zero.
What’s up with that?
I think this was messing me up for making other trims and moving clips around the track, but now I’m not so sure. It looks like if there’s this invisible bit of gap between two clips, I can still roll the editpoint, and extend the clips before and after this invisible gap.
Perhaps it’s just an anomaly and doesn’t hurt anything, but I find it curious, and I’ll bet it might be one of the many reasons that things don’t always act like either I expect them to act, or how the manual says it should act.
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I’m calling it FCX. They took the “pro” out, so I will too.
I’ll reconsider after the first upgrade.Mark Morache
Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
blogging at https://fcpx.wordpress.com -
Tom… thanks for the reply.
As usual, I don’t think I’m being very clear.
I use the comma and period keys all the time. I like the pacman metaphor.
So I know that if I select an entire clip, the pacman keys bump the entire clip up or down the timeline a frame at a time. Ten frames if I hold the shift key.
If I select an edit, it will roll or extend the edit likewise.
Here’s my question: I’ve got a bit of gap between two clips. Selecting the gap and deleting it isn’t good because my timeline will collapse and I have my audio timed out. I simply want to roll the end of the first clip to the beginning of the third clip, eliminating the gap.
Using the trim tool, I select end of the first clip, making sure I have both sides of the edit selected (I press the key). I use the period key (with shift key pressed for speed) until that edit stops moving because it’s bumped into the beginning of the third clip.
It looks like I’ve extended the first clip to the beginning of the third clip, eliminating the gap.
I haven’t. There is a very small bit of gap that still lives between the two clips. You can barely see it if you zoom the timeline in to maximum view. You can also see it and delete it in the timeline index.
Is there a better way to extend the first clip to the third, and eliminate what’s in-between?
In FCP7, I could select an edit point, and move the timeline past several clips, and extend the edit as far as the media would let me go.
In FCX, it only extends as far as the next edit, and leaves a bit of zero length gap in there.
Perhaps my problem is that I’m still thinking with the old paradigm, and even though they give us the method of extending a clip (shift-x) they don’t intend for us to use it because there is a newer, smarter way to deal trimming.
Thanks for listening. My brain hurts.
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I’m calling it FCX. They took the “pro” out, so I will too.
I’ll reconsider after the first upgrade.Mark Morache
Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
blogging at https://fcpx.wordpress.com -
What if you put this compound clip BELOW your timeline? Then you could place some gap in your timeline if there’s anything on the lower track that you want to show through?
You could put bars and tone at the top, or a slate, then your compound sequence.
I don’t think I’d like the mess of having a reference track in my timeline, but maybe not.
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I’m calling it FCX. They took the “pro” out, so I will too.
I’ll reconsider after the first upgrade.Mark Morache
Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
blogging at https://fcpx.wordpress.com -
Here’s a creative solution I bet you’ll like. I think it’s cleaner than having a clip floating beneath your timeline during your entire edit, and I honestly don’t know if it will cause you any problems later.
Put 26:46 of something/anything in your timeline. Select it all and OPT-G to create a compound clip.
Now open the compound clip and edit your entire show in the compound clip. You’ll notice when you’re in the compound clip, the time beyond the duration of the clip is marked with hash lines, so you are functionally locked into the edit being a specific duration. You will be able to edit clips beyond the 26:46, but the part that extends the 26:46 will be covered with a hash field.
Anyone know if there are any limitations on compound clips? Can they have as many elements as a project?
I’d be afraid that you might do something to the database by editing this way. If I did this, I would make backup copies of my project every ten minutes or so to make sure you don’t lose all your work.
Personally, I think you should just learn to do the math, and watch for the timecode. Jumping to the end of the timeline, er, project by hitting the “end” key will take you to the end. (fn-right arrow on my MBP) or hit CNTL-P and type in your 26:46:00 to go to the point your show should end.
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I’m calling it FCX. They took the “pro” out, so I will too.
I’ll reconsider after the first upgrade.Mark Morache
Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
blogging at https://fcpx.wordpress.com -
Likewise… I’ve had no problem with both on the same partition.
I followed Apple’s suggestions for installing them on the same disk.
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT4722
I’m wondering why they even suggested putting them on separate partitions?
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I’m calling it FCX. They took the “pro” out, so I will too.
I’ll reconsider after the first upgrade.Mark Morache
Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
blogging at https://fcpx.wordpress.com -
I was wondering about that. How does that work?
If I take a clip from the event browser and open in timeline, balance the two audio channels and go back to my main timeline, does that mean that every time I pull part of that clip down, the audio fixes I did will be there?
I do that in FCP7 all the time.
That would be helpful. Now if I could just get my audio automation back.
Thx.
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I’ve recompressed it and re-uploaded it. It’s in a new post.
Sorry.
Anyone have the issue with quicktime screen capture and audio with youtube. I was able to upload the .mov file just fine. The video looks good. The audio is gone.
Original audio is encoded as aac at 44.1. Guess youtube doesn’t like aac.
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I’m calling it FCX. They took the “pro” out, so I will too.
I’ll reconsider after the first upgrade.Mark Morache
Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
blogging at https://fcpx.wordpress.com -
I did not Jason. I’m actually taking this week off. It was probably Darrell. I’ll watch it on the dvr.
Keep watching! We need the viewers 😉
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Oops… it’s on the quicktime file on my hard drive. Youtube must have lost it. I’m re-encoding it now. Thanks for the heads up.
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I’m calling it FCX. They took the “pro” out, so I will too.
I’ll reconsider after the first upgrade.Mark Morache
Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
blogging at https://fcpx.wordpress.com