Changing track order

Eddie B

Eddie B

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I'm coming from a Sony Vegas background and have just started editing with Final Cut Pro. With Vegas, I'm used to being able to rearrange the track order. For example, if I have a clip on Track 1 and a clip on Track 2 and I want to bring in a new clip under Track 1 making it the new track one (say a solid color background). Is there a way to do this with FCP?
 
Eddie,
Bresson fans are welcome ;)
As far as i know the answer is no, but there is a fast way without adding a new track: Lets say there are only 2 video tracks, and you want to create and add a 3rd; select a clip either on V1 or V2, press shift and drag the clip upwards, it will automatically create a new V3 track. {Pressing shift prevents moving clip sideways on the track} Then simply following the same method, organize the clips the way you wanton 3 tracks
 
Ah, thank you.

For Final Cut to be so more highly regarded than Vegas, I'm finding I'm missing a LOT of features that Vegas offers such as this one and the ability to apply filters to entire tracks, as opposed to merely individual clips. But oh well.
 
I think you should explore FCP more... You can apply filters to an entire track or tracks by simply selecting all clips and dragging the filter you want on it.
 
Every NLE has good and not as good points.

But you need to learn FCP better; the one enumerated complaint about applying a filter to an entire track does work in FCP.

What other functions do you need to use in FCP that you believe are missing?
 
I understand that I can select a filter to however many tracks, but as far as I and my far more experienced co-workers know, you have to edit each clip's settings individually. I realize you can copy and paste attributes but to our knowledge, there's no way to control a master video or audio correction.

I'm hoping you guys are about to explain to me that is possible, because that would be fantastic.

For the record, I wasn't trying to start an argument about Final Cut. I appreciate everyone's help and I look forward to learning more about this program.
 
Well, there is no direct way to adjust all clips at the same time BUT, you can achieve this by nesting your sequence in another one. So say you have sequence A with all of your clips and edits. You create sequence B and then drag sequence A into it. It will behave much like an individual clip so when you apply a filter to that, you essentially adjust just one instance of the filter. Hope that makes sense.
 
you CAN adjust the audio (and their key frames) of multiple clips all simultaneously
in increments of +/- 1db or 3db

first select the clips you want then use CTRL square bracket for a 3 db increase or decrease
ctrl [
ctrl ]
for a 1 db increase decrease its CTRL plus or minus

This option can also be seen in the menus under modify/audio


for applying audio filters on a track by track basis you need to roundtrip to Sound Track Pro, you can then apply as many effects as you want per track
or to a bus
 
J Davis said:
for applying audio filters on a track by track basis you need to roundtrip to Sound Track Pro, you can then apply as many effects as you want per track
or to a bus
Click to expand...

Yeah, that's one of the reasons I still prefer Vegas, but unfortunately Final Cut Pro is the industry standard. The nesting workaround should serve me well, though.
 
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