Wow ... How to edit Event Browser Clips in Your Events

Question

Maybe it's just me, but this seems very useful.  I recently saw a discusson on the "Open in Timeline" command.  There's not a lot of documentation on it, but if you can use it to open an event browser clip in the timeline.  The video and audio of the clip are detached from each other.  Hafken and some others have noted that you could use this feature to sync audio to the video if there were sync problems.  I agree. 
But it started me thinking ... what else could be done to the clip.  I took the Blade tool and cut off large amounts of the clip off the start and end then deleted the ends.  I then applied a couple of effects with pronounced amounts so I could track whether they "took" in the event browser clip or not.  To my surprise not only did the clip change in start and end and duration due to the Blade tool use, but also the effects remained.  I used the Left Arrow at the upper left of the timeline window to back out of the timeline edit as if I were backing out of a compound clip, and then clicked on the clip in the event browser.  All the edited changes I had made were now on that clip.  It had changed the length, start and end points and the nature of the video, etc ... Now that clip was a part of my event browser without having to render/share it and import the rendered version to get a clip I wanted. 
I know many have asked about how they could get just the parts of the clip that they wanted and make that the clip that remained in their event browser.  We know we can save segments of a clip as favorites, but they are still all in the same clip.  So we cannot simply drag those segments onto the timeline.  It seems the Open in Timeline command can be used quite well to change the clips in the event browser to be just the parts that we want to keep in the event browser (you might have to duplicate the clip to edit out the multiple segments).  Furthermore, we can add processing to them and have them "saved" to the event browser for future use as building blocks.
Is it just me ... did I miss this functionality all along ... or is this something that is really useful?
stephen

Answer 1

I agree it can be a useful feature in certain circumstances. The most obvious to me being the audio/video "sync" and creation of "subclip" equivalents.
I haven't tested it yet, but if you can put content from the timeline into an empty Event Browser compound clip, that could also be very useful, allowing an easier way to reuse content across projects as opposed to copy/paste from/to projects. I wonder what would happen if you paste content from a clip that is from a different Event.
I know many have asked about how they could get just the parts of the clip that they wanted and make that the clip that remained in their event browser.  We know we can save segments of a clip as favorites, but they are still all in the same clip.  So we cannot simply drag those segments onto the timeline.
Actually you can do this using favorites. After you have marked your favorite sections, in the Event Browser, you can just "Show Favorites" (control-F). Now all the favorite sections look like separate clips which you can individually edit into the timeline (either via keyboard or drag/drop).
I think using favorites/keywords to identify the parts you want to keep is preferable to the Open in Timeline use-blade-tool approach; even though it is non-destructive regarding the actual media on disk, it is destructive in the sense that you no longer have access to what you remove unless you re-mport it. In most cases, it is just better to hide that unwanted media rather than make it gone forever.