Peter Durso
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Hi,
Thanks for the video link. I will look at it later. I figured out the meaning of that line and then I went back to the main timeline and shortened it up as you suggested here. I didn’t realize that the compound clip itself was that dynamic, instead of just being a static container. Now I’m working on a credits scroll.
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Thanks again,
Pete D -
Here is a screenshot..
The white line past the end of the clips does represent the end of the compound clip before I trimmed the end of the dance. I used the razor tool and I deleted the unwanted material at the end of the clips. How do i get the compound container to “close up” and match the new end of the clips? what is the right way to delete material from the end of the clips in the compound clip and have the compound clip tighten up after the delete?
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I know I’m a dinosaur but I had a perfectly well functioning 2008 Mac Pro that bit the dust and I took the leap to a 2017 5k iMac with FCP X. The lack of DVDSP and the different paradigm from legacy FCP is killing me. In legacy FCP I could make a nest, go into the nest, edit the beginning points of the clips in there if needed without the mess that now happens if I select a short range at the beginning of one clip in the compound clip and then delete it. The issue here is that in Olde days FCP I could go to the beginning (left edge) of the stacked clips (whether they were in a nest or on the main timeline) and right click and there was a choice to apply the default fade. That action went across all clips at the left edge, even if one of the tracks was a tad shorter. This is driving me bats because as I edit I keep making a right click at the beginning of a bunch of clips and I get the new selection of actions-and none of them is to apply the default fade. Right now if I have two stacked video clips and a lower third above those so far all I see that I can do is select each clip individually and go to the menu at the top of the page and apply the fade. If I select all of the clips at once and do that is still seems stupid clunky. I can do it to the compound clip itself, but again I want to be able to trim the beginning of one of the clips to start a little later occasionally. When I apply the fade on the compound clip it just happens at the beiginning of the compound clip regardless of what is inside it. This might not bug me so much except that I need to do this at the beginning of about 60 clips and it seems clunky. That’s why I feel I’m missing something. This can’t be an unusual workflow.
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Jeff,
Thanks for the fast response. In the past (forgive me!) I was able to either right click or option click, I forget which, and a drop down would have a string of options, one of which was to apply the default transition. If I had my cursor over the left edge of the track, the transition was applied to the two tracks there, as well as to the Lower Third Scroll on the third track. One Click.
Am I to understand that I can apply the transition to the compound (container?) clip, unlike Nests previously?
As you can see I’m still in the steep learning phase part. Thanks again!
Pete D.
