[Matt Callac]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Who said this new interface wasn’t intuitive? ;)”

hahah
only every person complaining about things in the FCP X forum. Though I’d wager a guess that most of them have almost as much experience with the program as you do.

-mattyc

[Matt Callac]

[Jeremy Garchow] “I saw music down below and a secondary storyline connected on one of these screen grabs somewhere”

Yeah, it just looks like it’s connected to a secondary story…what you don’t really see is that the little attatcher point is going behind that secondary story and attaching to the primary storyline.

[Jeremy Garchow] ”
I’ll shut up now.”

no way dude. I enjoy your ability to somehow help people even though you’ve never used the program.

-mattyc

[Matt Callac]

ah… yes. that makes sense

[Michael Garber] ” I have already timed the top layer to a beat in the music and I’m just trying to finagle v1″

that’s a tough situation. You’d think there were a way to link 2 different storylines together whitout them being linked to the primary storyline. or at least a way to link a clip only to a secondary storyline…b/c sometimes (as you pointed out) the sync doesn’t need to be with the primary storyline. If there is a way to do this I have not found it.

-mattyc

[Matt Callac]

[Scott Sheriff] “I saw a 14 year old doing some rail grinding with a GoPro on his skateboard“

Ouch. Scott,
why you always gotta get personal.

-mattyc

[Matt Callac]

[David Roth Weiss] ” I’m from NOLA you know.”
interesting. I grew up on the NorthShore (slidell).

-mattyc

[Matt Callac]

[Tim Wilson] “In any case, it’s hard to imagine that something like this isn’t coming from Apple, and soon.”

Pretty neat, wonder how pissed they apple is that someone beat them to the punch.

-mattyc

[Matt Callac]

[David Roth Weiss] “Too bad you did that Matt, this one might have been an interesting thread. :)”

eh… i figure most everyone stopped reading my comments in this thread by this point.

-mattyc

[Matt Callac]

I’ll tell you whose opinion matters to me the least….

David Roth Weiss

simicolon Parenthesis

-mattyc

[Matt Callac]

[Michael Garber] ” it just seems odd that it would work while slipping on the bottom layer. i guess that’s just one of my “old school” fcp ways of thinking ;)”

Yeah, the problem is unlearning the way that something would work in FCP7.

[Michael Garber] “unfortunately, the only way this solution will work (from what I can tell) is if the clip on v2 is longer than the main storyline clip. in this particular case, the v2 clip is shorter and doesn’t hover over the next clip. too bad there isn’t a lock method for the connected clips – or a way to just say “I don’t want this crazy clip to be connected! ;)””

I may not understand you correctly, but if you just have this random clip above the primary storyline but it’s not necessarily timed out to a specific spot in the primary storyline, why does it even matter that it’s moving when you slide a clip in the primary storyline?

-mattyc

[Matt Callac]

That’s sort of the point of the clip connections, that when you move an element in the primary storyline other clips stay connected.

If you’re trying to slip/slide something and don’t want it to move the clips above it hold opt+cmmd and then click a new section of the clips(or secondary storyline above it) and it’ll put a new connection point onto the primary story line.

I just realized reading over that, that it isn’t super clear.
Clips are connected to the primary storyline with those little bitty lines. Any clip you connect to the primary story line will default the clips connection point to the front of the clip(first frame) to the place where you connected it to the primary story line. So if you want to move the link point you have to cmmd+opt+click a new part of the clip. So link it to a clip further down on your primary storyline.

-mattyc