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Before I begin my edits, I want to permanently delete unneeded portions of my the clips. I start each scene using a ColorChecker. As a one man operation, I have to begin my camera early, I have a few retakes, and I have additional footage before I turn my camera off. All of it is in 4K and 30 FPS with a EOS R using Canon Log or iPhone 12 ProMax using Filmic Pro.
FCPX 10.4.8
macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Thank you.
Carlos
Tom, thank you for your help. I could not figure out how to work VirtualCamCard. So I Imported the ProRes 4-2-2 clip into FCPX. I did my edits on each individual clip and outputed to Compressor. I had Compressor output the clip as a ProRes 4-2-2 clip. I did use Quicktime when all I had to do was Trim the beginning or end of the clip and use the Save command. If I used the Export command the file would compressed/processed and change the format. All this did help me with organizing my media and I learn a lot in the process.
Tom, thank you for your help. I could not figure out how to work VirtualCamCard. So I Imported the ProRes 4-2-2 clip into FCPX. I did my edits on each individual clip and outputed to Compressor. I had Compressor output the clip as a ProRes 4-2-2 clip. I did use Quicktime when all I had to do was Trim the beginning or end of the clip and use the Save command. If I used the Export command the file would compressed/processed and change the format. All this did help me with organizing my media and I learn a lot in the process.
I was unaware that you could do trim edits in the import window. Before reading Tom’s solution I would open each long clip in QuickTime and use its trim tool to select the sections I wanted to use. Then save the section as a new file and import that.
Andreas Kiel's Film Tools has a utility called VirtualCamCard
http://www.spherico.com/filmtools/
It lets you put clips into the utility can creates a sparsebundle, which appears in FCP as camera card. You can edit them in the Import window. The files have to be in a format compatible with FCP.
But how can you do the trim there ? I cannot find it :
For most cameras you can make selects in the import window. It would be best to trim the slates or other extraneous material there.
Tom mentioned CAMERA clips.
This means directly importing from a Camera or Camera card.
If the files are already on a hard drive there are no options for in/out options.
Al
I see ... sometimes I use some atmospheric video as a background that I have to download from 10 hour youtube file, so the only way how to use just 3 needed minutes is to cut it and export first ?
If you know what you are going to need, you can cut just a section in Quicktime Player before importing.
How to Permanently delete unneeded portions of clips
