[Richard Herd]

If I understand it right. YOu have a collection of timelines with the footage you want to use.

I would one by one, select a clip, hit Shift-F, then F.

With the View Favorites option selected, they should all show up.

[Richard Herd]

HEre’s a copy/pasta from a “tipps” link, below:
HOpe it helps.

2. Copy/Paste ColourEffects without other effects!
Many people complain (and I agree) that FCPX does not allow to copy/paste selected effects from one clip to the next. Whenever you do so you apply ALL effects to the new clip. This includes the Audio-effects. So when you have different resizing and compressor settings on one clip and want to copy the resizing, you also paste the wrong compressor settings into the audio.

At least (and not many people know this) you can copy/paste the COLOURBOARD effect alone. So this command only pasts your colour-correction with its masks to another clip. All other effects and the audio stay untouched. Here´s how:

Go to the menu of “Final Cut Pro” and select “Commands…”-> Customize

Now search for the word “APPLY”. You will find 3 commands that “APPLY the Colour Correction to previous clip” second last and third last clip.

[Richard Herd]

[Marcus Moore] “down the CMD+OPT keys”

THANK YOU!!

I have been looking all over for that piece of information. I don’t have X in front of me right now, but will that retain the Audio clips current location?

[Richard Herd]

Whoa! How did you change the colors of your audio tracks?! Wait, did you do that?

Color coding is huge, though, and I sent it to apple too.

Also it’d be great if I could control click the little link-line and move it.

[Richard Herd]

Are you on x.0.4?

[Richard Herd]

and another good one:

2. Copy/Paste ColourEffects without other effects!
Many people complain (and I agree) that FCPX does not allow to copy/paste selected effects from one clip to the next. Whenever you do so you apply ALL effects to the new clip. This includes the Audio-effects. So when you have different resizing and compressor settings on one clip and want to copy the resizing, you also paste the wrong compressor settings into the audio.

At least (and not many people know this) you can copy/paste the COLOURBOARD effect alone. So this command only pasts your colour-correction with its masks to another clip. All other effects and the audio stay untouched. Here´s how:

Go to the menu of “Final Cut Pro” and select “Commands…”-> Customize

Now search for the word “APPLY”. You will find 3 commands that “APPLY the Colour Correction to previous clip” second last and third last clip.

This is not ideal….you might wanna take some clip that is on the timeline 50 cuts earlier. But you can workaround it and it is a hint that are many features hidden in the command-set. Go look through it!

[Richard Herd]

Here’s a good tipp (sic): if you have a hard time getting used to a trackless timeline, simply create secondary storylines or compound clips for certain “tracks” like the Lower 3rds, Sound FX, Music etc. In the image below you see a compound clip handling a certain role of audio. You could do that to all of the roles. But after a while I got used to roles and the item list, so giving up on tracks altogether ;-)” (emphasis added).

[Richard Herd]

Watch out for Bill’s comment. He might state something to the effect of “events are not the same as capture scratch.” And then he might explain the databasiness.

[Richard Herd]

There’s an FCPX Technique forum, but sometimes stuff gets posted over here. Just want to make sure someone needing help gets it 😉

[Richard Herd]

[Warren Eig] “How can you without tracks?”

Are you really asking this? Or is it rhetorical?