Comments on: FCP TIP: CUTTING IN FOOTAGE FROM ANOTHER SEQUENCE

By: shaneross

shaneross — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:46:08 +0000

I never had that issue. Always worked…oh, except when I didn’t have a few of the AUTO SELECT buttons checked. make sure you do that.

yes, this is…er…was a professional editing program. Every NLE has oddness occur, even Avid and Premiere.

By: ppadilha

ppadilha — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:43:11 +0000

that’s great and all, except for when FCP doesn’t paste what you selected into the new sequence. I’ve been having this problem A LOT. I copy a selected area of an old sequence, but when I paste into the new one, it doesn’t paste all of it, usually leaving parts of the audio or the video out. And it seems to do this randomly. Seriously, how is this supposed to a professional editing program?

By: RobShaver

RobShaver — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:19:36 +0000

This is very useful. As a long-time software programmer I’d love to see a definition of how and when to use/make master clips and nesting in FCP. I’ve really gotten myself into trouble several times using nested sequences like software subroutines. I thought the nested sequence was a copy (what us programmers would call a “deep copy”) of the sequence. But when I modified something in the nested sequence it unexpectedly changed something in another part of the project.

As a result of this pain I’ve been avoiding nested sequences even though it seems like a powerful concept. Oh, and nested sequences seem to add a big hit to rendering and other processing.

I don’t really expect an answer to all this in the comments here, but perhaps a separate blog post.

By: DC_Reels

DC_Reels — Mon, 31 May 2010 17:29:04 +0000

Great post, I’ve been using sequences as clip reels for over a year now and I love it. It lets you memorize your B’Roll much faster and it saves time by not digging through folder trees in the Browser.
If your final sequence has many video layers make sure to work the Toggle Auto Select buttons so you paste clips to the proper video layer.

By: yuke

yuke — Sun, 30 May 2010 11:40:49 +0000

One thing that I think actually works better in FC, or at least is more practical, is trimming a nested sequence. I’m not an avid expert so sometimes, f.ex. when offlining stop-motion sequences or re-using elaborate multitratrack graphic packages I use collapsed track to maintain my main sequence “clean”. In avid I can “trim-in” those collapsed clips making the shorter but if I later try to “trim-back”the same clips it won’t extend the collapsed sequence, just the nested clip that happenes to be at that edit-point.

By: Martin Baker

Martin Baker — Sat, 29 May 2010 10:02:40 +0000

Yes Shane, in the Auto Select section on page 47.

By: Kevin Monahan

Kevin Monahan — Fri, 28 May 2010 21:59:01 +0000

I always do a Deselect All before CMD A or OPT A. Keep in mind that these are sensitive to auto-select buttons.

By: Michael Heldman

Michael Heldman — Fri, 28 May 2010 02:37:03 +0000

Yes, you can skip the opt-A, but beware: if something else in your sequence is highlighted, THAT will be copied, not the section between the in and out. Highlighted material takes precedence. So the option-A command is good insurance against inadvertently copying the wrong material.

Actually, very early in my FCP learning curve, I mapped OPT-A (select in-to-out) to F1: copy to F2, “paste sequence content”s to F3; and “insert sequence contents” to F4.

SO: if I’m copying from sequence to sequence, I set my in and out points, press F1, then F2, move to the destination sequence and hit either F3 or F4. Very easy, fast. Almost musical.

I still miss the way Avid does it though. On the few occasions when I use Avid these days, the way it handles sequence to sequence editing seems so right…

By: shaneross

shaneross — Thu, 27 May 2010 15:41:01 +0000

Martin, that is darn cool. Just Mark IN and OUT and copy…that simple? Is this in the KILLER TIPS PDF? I haven’t read the whole thing yet.

This is a killer tip.

By: strypes

strypes — Thu, 27 May 2010 14:04:26 +0000

Also, tracks that are locked will not be copied, so unlock all tracks before copying and pasting, unless you don’t want the locked tracks.

By: Martin Baker

Martin Baker — Thu, 27 May 2010 10:10:33 +0000

Shane, it’s even easier than that – you can skip pressing Option-A.

Just mark in, mark out, command-C. Any tracks with auto select enabled will be copied to the clipboard and you can paste them elsewhere. The section between in/out will get highlighted brighter for the currently auto selected tracks so you can see what will get copied.

By: Justin Barham

Justin Barham — Thu, 27 May 2010 04:13:06 +0000

OPT-A. Didn’t know about that one. Should be hugely useful. Thanks!

By: shaneross

shaneross — Thu, 27 May 2010 02:48:37 +0000

YES! The COPY to Preview monitor (Viewer), or Cut and Copy to Preview monitor…I use those a lot too.

By: Tom Meegan

Tom Meegan — Thu, 27 May 2010 02:35:50 +0000

Cntr-Alt or Cmd-Opt C in Avid is one of my favorites – it allows me to replicate that Insert Paste FCP goodness, and has several side benefits.

I had forgotten the Cmd-F10 short cut – good stuff!