Exporting a section of the timeline with FCPx

I've asked for the model number, but the only information that I have right now is that the video was shot with a Panasonic consumer-level, standard definition PAL camcorder.

Most consumer SD camera shoot DV.

That's my experience, too, that consumer SD cameras shoot DV25 video. From what I was told, this camera (which I have never seen) is different than the cameras that I have seen.

Using VLC to export and transcode the audio from the original MPEG2 clips to WAV produced sound files without dropouts. I was able to bring these new sound files into FCP, and sync them with the orginal sound that was part of the imported video clips. Then I detached the original sound and deleted it, and exported short test sections of the project. All my tests had good sound. I'm about to export the entire project.

In doing all these experiments and tests, being able to export short sections of the project has been a very important time saver. So this thread has been a big help. Thanks, Tom, for all your thoughts.

We've just finished a feature documentary in 1080p60 4:2:2 with FCPX, and being an editor for many years of feature films - I have found FCPX to be an amazing tool to help our storytelling.

This range thing is simple as pie. Grab the section (with all the clips you want) and make a Compound Clip. Save it in a project that is just your working clip sections you send to your composers, etc. Now, blow those back up on your timeline. (Shift Command G) and your timeline is intact. Load up the compound clip you just made, and hit the share button.

Can't get much easier than this, but requires new approaches.

1) If you have lots of clips and titles, and graphics, etc, or layered video...

Drag select the section of clip(s) you want to export (use blade if necessary to create a dividing point), right click somewhere on any of them and "Create Compound Clip" Then "Share" the compound clip only. Very simple. If you don't need the compound clip and need to conserve space, tag it with a keyword like Unwanted and you can collect all the things you need to move to the trash later in order to clean house.

2)If you have only a simple segment of video without other layered graphics, video, titles, etc,

Just use the range select tool to select your in and out point on the clip, then click the "Share" icon at the top right of the Timeline window and you'll see it says, "Share this selection" or something like that at the top. It will only render the selection.

I was an editor for half a decade and I was at first upset at how I could do nothing the way I was trained to do it before, that basic functionality seemed missing. But after taking a Lynda.com course "Switching from FCP7 to FCPX" I realized that it wasn't missing functionality, it simply rethought editing from the ground up, instead of building off of decades old thinking and workflow. I frankly couldn't believe how impossible it was to see that until I took the course. It has some deficiencies, but they simply put the old system and workflow to shame. If you embrace this, you'll find yourselves (like me) able to do SO much more, instead of becoming that old linear editor you used to make fun of (we all know people that get stuck in the past, don't be one). It's a better way to work with footage and it has really freed me up to simply tell stories while thinking less about technicalities... and I always loved technicalities 😟

~John

It can actually be done in fewer steps. Even with multiple layers, connected clips, etc, you can use either the range tool or mark in and out points and that section of the segment will export properly.

Russ