[Michael Leavitt]

This is an older thread but I had the same problem and just figured it out (I think).

• First in the browser choose your clip, make sure you don’t have any ranges (Mark>Clear Selected Ranges)
• Press Control+P (on the Mac) and numerically key in your frame 4500 becomes 00:00:45:00.
• Press “I” to set In-point
• Press Control+P again and numerically key your end point
• Press “O” to set out-point
• Now grab the selection in the browser (it will have a yellow box around it)
• Drag it to your main timeline

I’ve found I don’t have to make compound clips or insert timecode generators.

Hope this is helpful ????

[Michael Leavitt]

Bret-

Thanks, I’ll try that technique too. And you’re exactly right, their reviewing the quicktime MOV on a regular computer.

thanks

[Michael Leavitt]

Oliver-

I don’t know about the whole “go back to school” – they reviewed the .MOV files on their computer, in quicktime viewer which started each clip at zero, then and sent their script it back to me based on what they saw in quicktime. Not sure they could have done it any different based on how they review the clips.

But I get your point, making compound clips seems the easiest way to get the appropriate portions of the clips.

Thanks

[Michael Leavitt]

The reason I’m asking is I receive a script from the office with SOT timecodes as if each b-roll clip started at zero and they don’t align with the *actual* digital timecode of each clip when viewed from inside FCPX