Whats the equivalent of select track forward or key (T) in FCPX?

There isn't one. You can't have a track forward tool when you don't have tracks. It all just flows, so go with the flow. Bottom line: you can't do what you want to do or work the way you're used to working.

Fit to window and drag selecting is the only way. Converting to a compound clip might make it easier to move around afterward. You can always break the compound apart when you need to.

I thought the Beeb was moving to Premiere.

Too funny Craig! I know AP is probably very good, but I am not loving the interface - and it is for some reason stuttering when I rearrange clips etc. For me though, I purchased CS5.5 simply to have ai, ae, and ps. But I hear you, not loving premiere. My wife keeps asking me how it's going - she's curious, and I told her, "I'll work on FCPX and learn it completely before I ever go to Premiere!"

I had a situation today that massively called out for "select all tracks forward" because it was a connected clip that I wanted to nudge back in the timeline and I wanted it to take everything else with it by the same number of frames.

I worked round it by nudging it six frames back and then closing the gap and remembering how many frames so I could close up the gap in the primary storyline by the same number of frames.

It's a tool I am not sure I can live without.

Select everything on the same layer and press Cmd-G to make it a secondary storyline. Select the storyline shelf and nudge the whole thing.

Thanks for this Tom.

I have clips on three or four other "tracks" though so that means I have to bring everything down into v2 (for want of a better word) first whch would be a little convoluted in a half hour timeline.

Good old "select everything forward" would be quicker and better IMHO.

I can't help thinking some of the tools they have dispensed with came into being for really good reasons and they need really really really good reasons to get rid of them.

That said I am getting the hang of it and enjoying a lot about it (finally!)

Incidentally how do you undo "create storyline" I cannot find a command for it?

cheers

James

Hi,

The baseclip (the one on the bottom of the timeline - which can be an "empty" track or e.g. the audio track) can be cut and the in/out points deleted, stretched or shortened. This moves everything else later in the timeline forward or backward. A little bit different than select-forward, but actually helps you do just the same (as far as moving clips is concerned)

Gee

You can break apart a storyline with Shift-Cmd-G.

Hmm thanks but that dos not work when you want to move a connected clip alomng a timeline and everything else with it. And the only track that is truly magneric to which all other clips are connected is the Primary Storyline.

So if the clip you want to move and have everything move along with it is a connected clip whether a secondary storyline or stand alone clip it's a bit of a convoluted workround so far as I can see at the moment.

And Shift - Cmd - G breaks apart the clip items (seems to detach the audio actually) but it does not "undo" the "Create Stroyline" function.

Cmd - Z will "undo create stroryline" omly immediately after you have performed it.

But what if you want to change it three days later?

I'm not sure I entirley understand what break apart clip items does other than detach audio if you are not using within a compound clips scenario?

Thanks all for input and feedback

If you select the whole storyline (by clicking in the black border above the clips), them cmd-Shift-G does just what you want to, like Tom said.

Maybe you selected the individual clips rather the storyline itself, so that is why it did not work for you.

Regarding to your saying "the only track that is magnetic is the primary storyline": if you try them, you'll find that secondary storylines behave just like the primary storyline; and they are magnetic as well.

Many thanks for that...got it!