Ben Low

Q: Marking segments of clips as favourites IN timeline?

I know we can mark selections of clips in the Browser as favourites.  And then build a keyword collection / project from these 'F' selects.

 

I find doing this very very slow.

 

I like to skim through the clips in the timeline.  Just blading out the segments I want and bopping them up to next 'track' (Alt Com upper arrow).  X'cuse, I know we no longer have tracks ... but up out of the main storyline.  Once I get through a set of clips I delete all the not-wanted storyline clips and bring my selects back down to the storyline.  Or just lasso copy all the upper clips and bring them to another timeline (project).  And then begin to work with them there.

 

I'm wondering if there is a way to do this more efficiently?  If I could choose 'Favorites' in the storyline, and somehow translate them to a new timeline/project ... I know I can't.

 

So maybe I'm just wondering if there is a more efficient way to make selects IN the timeline?  Without using the Browser?  Something I haven't come across yet in the diverse tutorials.  Which all seem to favour the Browser / Favorite method.

 

All ears and curiosity...

 

Ben

MacBook Pro (15-inch Glossy), Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on May 8, 2016 7:09 PM

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  • by Karsten Schlüter,

    Karsten Schlüter Karsten Schlüter May 10, 2016 6:27 AM in response to Ben Low
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    May 10, 2016 6:27 AM in response to Ben Low

    Ben Low wrote:

    Use the Timeline Index all the time.  And 'roles' et al.  Love it all.

     

    A full day ahead ... I'm getting super fast at the Browser selection / favourites routine.  Thank you for that.

    ...

    hmmm... seems like you have inhaled the WarpSpeed Techniqués of rippletraining, but missed for two years something so fundamental as skimming in the Event bowser - what a story LOL!!

     

    'A full day ahead' - if this isn't 'pro', then I don't know.-

    If a tool saves you so much time = money, then it's hard to argue other tools as 'better'.

    In context the making-of Tiny Fey's *** << I love the word filter here!! WhiskeyTangoFoxtrott, the same was said… "if it saves you money, than it beats any competition"

     

    or, as Philip The Voice Hodgetts phrased it (for his FCPX-exclusive live-logger.app Lumberjack) :

    "What best can be said: it allows you to sleep longer!"

  • by Ben Low,

    Ben Low Ben Low May 10, 2016 8:59 AM in response to Karsten Schlüter
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    May 10, 2016 8:59 AM in response to Karsten Schlüter

    K

     

    That's the thing about this monster.  I learn something, use it.  Go out and shoot a film.  Come back ... 'Now was that thing that I used that was so cool???'  Like the skimmer.  I think I found it annoying on the timeline (especially with the audio turned on) ... and thus dis-remembered it.  But in the Browser it is soooo cool.

     

    First cup of coffee.  Back to work.  Let's see if I can remember what I learned from you yesterday.

     

     

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