(Think of the Position tool as an override to the Magnetic Timeline.) The Position tool allows me to quickly leave gaps between clips, which I almost always do when editing talking head interviews so that the pacing sounds right. When you trim clips using the Position tool, clips move without changing their edit points. To convert a connected storyline back to individual clips, select the storyline by clicking the gray bar above the clips, and choose Clip > Break Apart Clip Items (keyboard shortcut: S hift+Cmd+G).Īll the clips in the selected storyline are now individual connected clips.Ī trimming tip that took me a while to discover involves the Position tool. NOTE: If no connected storyline is selected, the clip will be inserted into the Primary Storyline. Poof! Instant inserted clip into the selected storyline. Click the Insert clip button, or type “ W” (without the quotes).Select and mark the clip in the Browser that you want to insert into the storyline.Place the playhead where you want to insert the clip.Select the storyline - NOT the clips in it - by clicking the gray bar above the clips.To insert a clip into a connected storyline: Either shorter…Įven better, when I select the edit point with the Trim tool (keyboard shortcut: T), I can roll trim where two clips touch which changes the timing of the edit without moving the position of any clips. Now, when we grab the edge of a clip and drag left, all the clips in the same connected storyline to the right of the clip being trimmed move as the edge of the clip moves. However, all clips in the same storyline need to be on the same layer, you can’t stack clips inside the same connected storyline. NOTE: There is no limit to the number of connected storylines that you can create in a project.
See the gray bar over the top of the selected clips? This indicates the clips are contained in a storyline. This converts the unrelated connected clips into a single storyline.
To do this, select the clips you want to convert and do one of the following: In order to trim connected clips the way we trim Primary Storyline clips we need to convert them into a Connected Storyline. On the other hand, it is all that connected clips allow me to do. In all these cases, this is not what I want. Then, if I try to insert a clip between two connected clips (keyboard shortcut: W), the clip is always inserted into the Primary Storyline. But, I don’t want a gap and I do want the other clips to move as I move the first clip. Plus, I can’t do a roll trim between two connected clips at all. What I’m doing in both these examples is a trim. …or longer, but all dragging does is either leave a gap or overlap two clips. If I grab the edge of a connected clip, I can make it shorter… Here is a short sequence composed of three sound bites, separated by a small gap to make the pacing of the sound bites sound “normal,” with three B-roll clips covering the gaps and illustrating what the speaker is talking about. Trimming is an essential editing technique to match action between shots or set a particular emotional “feel” for the edit point. To move the point where two clips touch such that the edit point moves, but no other clip moves. To move one edge of a clip earlier or later in the Timeline, which causes all clips to the right of that clip to move by the same amount. To move the edge of a clip either or later in the Timeline without any downstream clips moving. Setting and adjusting the In or Out of a clip in the Browser is called “marking” a clip. Adjusting where two clips touch by adjusting the In, the Out, or both. An edit point is also the edge of a clip (either at the beginning or the end), whether there is another clip touching that clip or not. The vertical point where two clip edges touch with the Out of the out-going clip touching the In of the in-coming clip.
In this article, I want to show you some trimming techniques for connected clips that I use in virtually every edit I do.Įdit Point. The Magnetic Timeline means that anytime we move an edit point, everything to the right (downstream) moves with it. But that is not how connected clips behave.
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With Final Cut Pro X, trimming in the Primary Storyline is easy.
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