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
Ben Low wrote:
… Which all seem to favour the Browser / Favorite method.
yep, because that's the concept of using FCPX
I don't see any advantage in pulling everything into a timeline, blading it, pushing it on tracks, lasso it, erasing it, copying it .... phewww!
What you do in a timeline, you do exactly like that, but faster and easier, in the EventBrowser:
first, arrange windows ... this is my 'taggIng mode layout'
I'm hopping thru each clip with J/K/L, set I/O (eyes on screen, even without being a typist you can do that), and with the other hand just hammering on F
=> within less than 20min, I found my materiial for edit from ~2h of source
switching to Favorites Only...
.... hit cmd-A, hit E, hit cmd-T to apply my custom transition, and 80% of edit done!
What follows are fine tuning, lots of slowmo/replay/diff cam angle stuff (sports), 'packaging' .... = hours
plus, when I need some additional material from some situation, I just change the display filter, no manual search "where was that scene wiith...."
I really, really recommend to change your habitual workflow! a) no good plan to 'crank' a tool off its concept (you can use a screw driver to hammer a nail, but ...), b) when gears make click, it is much faster, more convenient, by far more powerful ....
Posted on May 9, 2016 11:25 AM

