Guidelines to line up multiple clips in split screen

The screen in a video series I'm doing needs to be split into 3 parts, each one with a different clip (multi cam recording).
Since I need to work with lots of different clips it would help to be able to align them perfectly every time again.
Also, snapping a clip window to the outer edges of the canvas would be great.
Screenflow does this, is this possible in Final Cut Pro X?
Thanks a lot for your help!

Thanks a lot, Russ!
I'd need Final Cut to recognise the borders of other clips in the canvas and snap to them, just like in Pages, Sketch etc.
I thought this was pretty much an Apple thing.
However, my workaround is simply copy and pasting a lot of cropping values all over my clips...

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Some time ago I encountered a rather weird problem in iMovie:
I imported several (3 to be exact) HD clips from my camera (each about 60 minutes long) into a single iMovie project. As I wanted to discard several parts of the last clip, I split that clip into several parts and then deleted the unwanted parts. The result however was that some piece of footage of the length I was "removing" was removed somewhere else (I can't remember where exactly but can most probably reproduce it if someone needs to know) while the unwanted part was still shown on playback.
Has anyone else experienced this problem in iMovie 6, and if so, is it solved in a later version ?

Hi
Only times my Mac starts to behave in an occult fashion is
• when iMovie pref file get corrupt - trash it and eventually start a new account
• or when free space on internal boot hard disk goes low eg under 10Gb. Then my Mac
get's confused and does a lot of silly things.
• Or when I try to do something even the program maker didn't think of. So easy to
take things for granted. Then figuring out that it wasn't the way to do it.
Else
*Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows:*
• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk if it is less than 10Gb should rather have 25Gb
• Hard disk is untidy: Repair Permissions, Repair Hard disk (Apple Disc Util tool)
• Garageband-fix. Start it and Close it. Re-try
• Delete iMovie pref file - or rather start a new user/account - log into this and re-try
iMovie pref file resides:
Mac Hard Disk (start-up HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences and is named: com.apple.iMovie.plist
While iMovie is NOT RUNNING - move this file out to desk-top.
Now restart iMovie.
• Third party plug-ins that doesn't work OK (not relevant for iMovie’08)
• Program miss-match: iMovie 5.0.2, up to Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK
• Program miss-match: iMovie 6.0.3 or 6.0.4, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• Program miss-match: iMovie’08 v. 7.0.1, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• Screen must be set to Million-colors
From LKN 1935: (in this case = iMovie HD (5), I tried it all, but nothing worked.
Your answer (above) has been helpfull insofar as all the different trials led to the conclusion that
there was something wrong with my iMovie software. I therefore threw everything away and reinstalled
iMovie from the HD. After that the exportation of DV videos (there has not been any problem with HDV videos)
to my Sony camcorders worked properly as it did before.

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how can I edit multiple clips with different frame rates on the same timeline

You do not want to edit material from different frame rates on one timeline. You CAN do this, but it is a very bad idea - and this is why.
Once you establish the sequence frame rate - lets say it is PAL material at 25fps, any material that you drop into the sequence other than 25 fps will have to be changed to play at 25 fps. If the material you add is NTSC (29.97), FCP will DROP 5 frames per sec to bring the frame rate down to 25 fps. Which 5 get thrown away? Every 6th one. This yields a funky cadence that becomes even more complex as as there are also interlaced fields (DV/NTSC is an interlaced format). Oh, and by the way, the image sizes are different as well. DV/PAL has 576 lines of resolution and DV/NTSC has 480. FCP has to scale up the NTSC to fit the PAL frame.
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x

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Hi Kevin, I resurrected this old thread today so I'm not sure if the original poster is still around but thanks for the replies.
Sure, no problem.
The After Effects work around is quite long winded for what seems like a very simple task, but I do appreciate your point about how FCP was designed differently from the beginning.
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Sure it would be better if Premiere Pro had all the goodies FCP had (like this feature), but it's a totally different application and so you may have to adjust your expectations.
I'm sure it's not the case of just changing a couple of lines of code in Premiere, unfortunately! Hopefully the "multiple clip parameter editing" and "horizontal/vertical lock" features can be implemented in the future.
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Sig. T.T. Romano,
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