Rejoining split clips in FCP?

Jeff Brown

Jeff Brown

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Chaps,

I've been shooting narrative stuff on 4 gigg cards with quite a few long takes that run over the split. Now in FCP I'm left with a lot of tkaes that are split half way through and are pretty much identical. Other than manually putting on the time line to see which fits, is there a way of rejoining them so I don't have to treat them as two separate clips?

Thanks in advance...


Jeff Brown
 
If you sort your bin by Start TC then you will see the clips in the order they were shot and your split clips will show up sequentially. Then select all of the pieces of your shot and drag them into an empty sequence. They will be in the correct order thanks to sorting on TC and draging multiple clips to the timeline automatically edits them all head to tail. You can then edit using this sequence as your new source or export the sequence and reimport if having a single clip is critical to your editing style.

I have been playing with using a multicam clip to work the same way but haven't fully tested a procedure.

Hopefully FCP will start supporting P2 more fully in coming releases (metadata, lastclip auto clip joining, and allowing the Paste command to be used for filling out the Source Name in the P2 Import Dialog to name a few)

Happy cutting!

-filmstox
 
Just afew notes:

- Start TC is called "media Start" in the browser. Can be a bit confusing....

- Creating Subsequences from the syncsequence also works well, especially because the original files are referenced, which is not the case with export/import:
To create a subsequence: Mark in, mark out, APPLE+U
To open a subsequence in the viewer: Doubleclick while holding down "option/alt" key.
 
Thanks for the tips chaps - shall give it a go.

Cheers


Jeff Brown

PS Anders, used p2 Genie on my shoot and it was great - took a lot of the stress out of offloading at the end of a 12 hour day!
 
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