HT204986: Final Cut Pro X video tutorials
Learn about Final Cut Pro X video tutorials
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Oct 9, 2015 6:11 AM in response to World_Nateby Russ H,Select your clips and hit P to bring up the position tool. See it to drag the clips to the position on the timeline where you want them to be. FCP will insert a gap clip automatically between the original and new position.
Russ
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Oct 9, 2015 6:29 AM in response to World_Nateby Luis Sequeira1,You are seeing the magnetic timeline in action.
Thanks to the magnetic timeline, clips automatically move when you insert things and everything remains in sync.
There are no empty portions of the timeline.
There is really no need, but if you still want to do what you said, you should switch to the Position tool (press 'p'), and you will be able to, er, position clips anywhere you want.
This will add a 'gap clip' to your timeline to fill the empty space.
Press 'a' to return to the usual Arrow tool.
You are obviously new to FCP X and as such I think you will benefit from following a few tutorials on it.
Look at fcpxbook.com, izzyvideo.com (the basic course is free and quite good), rippletraining.com, for some great instructional material.
Bear in mind that there is a lot of misinformation around and a lot of obsolete or poor quality videos about FCP X.
And, of course, there is this forum :-)


