Customize how clips display in the Timeline

I have been using Version 3 for a while now. I just bought version 8 so I can run it on Windows 7 on my Dell Aspiron 1450 Laptop. I must say it runs well in that enviornment and is fast.
I am do not getting the thumbnail images in the Timeline. I can't find the Video Display Style button. I have a hard copy of the user's manual and know where the button is supposed to be, but it ain't there.

Unless it's been moved (removed?) in PrE 8, here is the location of the Thumbnail Display icon in PrE 4. It's a toggle w/ 4 possibilities:
1.) First Frame
2.) First & Last Frame
3.) All Frames
4.) Name only - no thumbnails
Hope that it's not been removed, and if it has been moved, then I'm sure that Steve, or others, will know exactly where it is in PrE 8.
Good luck, and hope that this helps,
Hunt

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How do I fix the timeline so both the images and the timeline are 1080p?

Hello everybody. I'm a relative newbie to FCP, but not totally new to the world of video editing. I've got a problem that I hope somebody out there can assist me with.
I've shot a lot of footage in HD (1080p) and have imported everything into a timeline. I've performed all my edits, transitions, music integration etc - now when I go to output the footage I realise I've made the mistake of doing everything in a 576p timeline.
I've figured out how to resize the timeline, but all the clips appear in their original 576p resolution in the middle of the canvas (ie huge bars around the image)..
My question is simple enough.. How do I fix the timeline so both the images and the timeline are 1080p? Is there a method to 'resize' all the clips to the new timeline? Will this resize the 576p clips or will they still be native 1080p?
If importing all those clips into the original timeline has destroyed pixels, then resizing to 1080p is definately not what I want to do. I want to retain all the resolution of the original clips.
Any advice would be very much appreciated. I've created nearly 300 edits in this timeline, not including all the effects and transitions. If I have to redo all this because I set up the timeline incorrectly I'm going to be rather upset!
Thanks everybody.

If you captured the footage as 1080 then the fastest way to re-size all the clips back to 1080 is to select all the clips on the time line and then in the menu bar go to Edit -> Remove Attributes. This will pop up window asking which attributes you want to remove. I would try checking the Basic Motion and Distort attributes and click OK. This should pop everything back to their original size and shape.
However, this will also remove any re-sizing or distortion that is intentional (ie to blow up a particular clip so you can focus on something).

Insert Editing, Why Won't Clips Appear In The Timeline?

Every time I attempt an insert edit, either via the "downward arrow" symbol or via "W" on the keyboard the clip appears in a secondary time/storyline below the Timeline, with a blank space in the main Timeline of exactly the same duration as the clip.
Similarly if I drag a clip from one part of the Timeline to another the clip appears below the Timeline with a corresponding blank space.
I do not want a secondary, or indeed tertiary storyline, I want all my clips to appear on the Timeline. I am not bothered about the length of the project or if I alter the length during the editing process.
Suggestions will be appreciated,
Ron

Couldn't manage that Tom, my hands aren't big enough BUT I have since discovered that what I thought was the Timeline is in fact a secondary storyline, with the Timeline, dark grey, below it. If I insert edit the clip appears correctly on on the Timeline with the two adjacent clips above on the Secondary line.
I have no idea how this happened. I started off my edit by by using the "append" arrow but the clips appeared and lined up together on this Secondary storyline.
A very laborious task in dragging each clip off the Second line and onto the Timeline. Nearly an hours worth of short clips!
I am about to start another project so will want to be certain to get all onto the Timeline. Perhaps my settings were wrong or I've inadvertently pressed the wrong key. Ron

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Hi, thanks all your reply.
You may find "points_to_bar_graph.vi" from this website, I find it by this way.
I will ask a stupid question: I don't have any photo processing software, how can I save the vi into a picture format?
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How to create multiple surveys in a survey list?How to display all the questions in a page and provide feedback button for each question?While giving the feedback user can ab. to see posted question date and posted person name.
sindu

Hi,
To display all the questions in a page instead of in a dialog, you can achieve it by using such an URL:
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You can add a hyperlink with this URL into a page of your site, then you can navigate to the questions page by clicking this hyperlink.
About how to add a hyperlink into a page:
http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/55543/how-to-add-a-hyperlink-anchor-in-a-sharepoint-wiki-page
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Displaying metadata, how to display ONLY the Date

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om28 wrote:
I will do that but still... if the Date could be ONLY the Date "without time and time zone", I would be able to display more information.. and it will look nicer.
I said at the top of my first response above: +Afaik, there is no way within Aperture to change the date format of the date metadata overlay.+
Send Aperture feedback to Apple via "Aperture→Provide Aperture Feedback"
In the past I used Expression Media and the config for displaying such info was better.
Aperture has a strange interface for it (and for other parameters), it does not behave at all like an Apple software (for the GUI), probably an external development team... but I agree it is more complex than iPhoto.
Aperture is 10x more complex than iPhoto.
If you want to see a rigid, boxed, "engineer"-style image database interface, take a look at Lightroom 3. It's a great program -- but it's a very different concept of information presentation and interaction.
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How to display all the surveys using content query web part

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OOTB Survey List does not contain any
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Cant move audio clips around in the timeline? Help?

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How do i reposition the timeline to the left margin?

I dip into FCP Pro X when I have a new project to edit - in between doing other things. The interface reminds me of the dash on my old Merc A160. It has very few buttons and they have multiple functions, but to change the time on the clock I always have to consult the manual. Less is not always more - something Apple struggle to understand sometimes. If I was using FCP all the time (heaven would be not having several different jobs) I would probably figure it out - but, because there is nothing intuitive about the interface, I have to relearn how to use it every time I come back to it. Just like the buttons on my Merc. I have completed a couple of editing projects in FCP. But I haven't looked at it for some months. In between I have been using Resolve (because a lot of my footage is shot in Log mode - something FCP doesn't handle at all - and I have to use a LUT to make the clips usable in the editing process).
I have a wedding to edit. Three cameras, three audio tracks on the cameras plus the church PA audio and a Roderick recording from a mic work by the groom. I would like to choose an audio track and sync the video to that - but I learned last time that is not possible (or not easy).
I looked at multicam sync clips but I can't see how I can use this to fit my workflow - it requires too many decisions up front and I don't have small clips - I have two 1hr "clips" and some smaller ones from the handheld camera. I don't want to chop up the "master" clip and I can't see how to easily sync everything together in such a way that I can see it all.   Yes I see that I can choose different angles in a different editor, but I don't want to get into that at this stage - I just want to see all my material in a timeline so I can make major edit decisions first. Oh I wish I had not thrown out FCP 10...
So what I want to do this morning is just drop clips into the timeline from the main camera, chop it up and remove the bits of the ceremony that I don't want in the final video and then choose clips from the other cameras to replace the main camera.
So, I drop a clip in the timeline. Its the warmup to the wedding. People are sitting down. The organ is playing. I don't want this in this timelines. So I trim the clip from left to where I want it to start. Great. Except...
... the timeline now starts halfway across the display and I have a blank black box to the left. I cannot, for the life of me, see how to move the start of the clip back to the left margin. Nor can I imagine why anyone at Apple thinks this is a useful thing to do?
In between all of this I have the usual Yosemite instability issues and, for whatever reason, Preview keeps crashing so using the FCP User Guide is more or less impossible.
Any clues?
And don't say use Resolve on Windows instead. I don't need much persuasion, and I hate Windows.

I don't agree with you here. Resolve is much easier to use - I don't have to try and get into the heads of the developers and its is easy to see how my material slots into the editor.
I am still trying to get my head around the way FCP organises the material. Events/Projects? What are they thinking here? How does this fit into a wedding video? I can create meaningful "events" (wedding/photoshoot/reception) etc but why would I?. Is a "project" just a timeline - a "sequence" in normal film editors? Why not call it that then? I cannot figure out what kind of environment Apple were imagining when they came up with this way of organising things? They must have had some kind of job in mind where events and projects make sense. The manual is silent on where the clips actually go - are they organised within events? within projects" or within both? Whatever it is, it might be easier to understand what FCP is doing if Apple explained what this structure means and why they have adopted it. I am left to guess.
What I can't seem to get rid of is the groups (I have no idea what else to call them) which are just a date and under which my clips appear. I don't want this hierarchy but I can't see how to get rid of it...   Clips that should be together, but were filmed on different dates, are in different places - and I cannot see how to group them together without these dates imposing another level of hierarchy, I struggled through the last couple of videos not really understanding where my clips were and ended up with multiple copies all over the place. Right now I don't know if I have all my footage in the library or not - its so hard to construct a meaningful organisation in this crazy interface. I just deleted 8 copies of a lapel mic audio track - I have no idea how I got 8 copies of that into this library. Does FCP just import duplicates without warning? Its so hard to correlate what is in the library with my folder structure on disk...
To my mind, this is one project - a wedding video. And this video will include multiple sequences. But my clips need to be ordered in such a away that makes sense to me - I am not sure how to do that in FCP, but its easy in file manager. The clips were shot in various locations on multiple occasions. But this has nothing to do with the finished product, which will have its own order of things, not necessarily related to the order of shooting. In FCP (or Resolve) I would have the clips in bins and my various sequences which I could then assemble.   Now I guess these are projects? They aren't "projects" at all - at least to in my mind. I don't like having to think about this project (the wedding video) in some weird way which only makes sense to the FCP developers. Maybe they never filmed a wedding!
Thanks for the advice re multicam clips. I came to the same conclusion but there is an awful lot of stuff to synchronise and I am not confident that FCP will do this in one go. But now I have to learn and get familiar with the different editing environment for multicam clips. Oh joy! I am hoping I can add more clips to a multicam clip afterwards - once I sort out how to get my footage into some meaningful structure without all these surplus dates... The clips have been imported so that the file structure creates keywords - which would be ok, perhaps, except for this extra date-related hierarchy which means I have to keep expanding the tabs to see the clips.
As for Synchronised clips, if you read the user guide there is nothing to warn you that this is an audio-only sync. Or which video track you are going to end up with. "For example, if you select two video clips and three audio clips from different sources that were all recorded during the same take, Final Cut Pro automatically analyzes and syncs the clips together into a new clip in the Browser." Perhaps, when they wrote this manual, they were thinking this would create a multicam clip. Or maybe its an old manual - I don't suppose they get updated automatically. Maybe I better go look to see if there is a newer version on Apple's website.
I seem to spend a lot of my time undoing the default settings in FCP. I don't want my footage disappearing into an impenetrable amorphous mass in some hidden library somewhere, so I have to remember to change that default - the wording in the inspector is not very clear and sometimes I find that it is importing the material into its library and creating another copy. I generally only notice when my backup software suddenly starts copying gigabytes of data to tape...
I don't want to see my footage an in iMovie layout with no tracks either. Especially my audio tracks, so I always have to unpack them. I miss the little buttons to turn off different audio tracks - yes I know there is another way to do this, but its not obvious (as with everything else in this software) and means fumbling around in the interface to find how to do it - and its slower if you want to flip between audio tracks to decide which one to use at any given point. Its the same with synchronising clips. You expect to select the clip, right click and get a sync option. But its in a separate menu under Clip. Why? If you want to copy a clip to another library its not under a clip menu - but under the file menu? Why? I think its a terrible mess - and I think that Apple introduced a level of complexity to this interface with little to show for it. I am new to Resolve. It looks complicated with all its colour wheels and stuff, but actually its very intuitive and easy to use. And its very easy to structure clips and sequences without having to spend hours trying to figure out how Apple think you should do things. if you use FCP all the time then fine - you get used to it. But is it truly a better way to work?   I like structure - it helps me to understand my material - but FCP is anti-structure and forces a virtual schema on its users. If you like that, well and good - but it shouldn't be compulsory.
I got my head around using keywords - but I hate it - its just extra work for me and I hate the loss of the direct relationship with my material. Its very hard to see whether I have used all the material or not and how it all fits together. Now I have duplicated stuff everywhere and lots of things missing - but no real organisation. And I have to remember how I keyworded clips to find them - not easy in a big project. And since I have lots of big clips I have to remember not to change the I/O points without first saving the subclip and assigning a keyword. Extra work and easy to stuff up. Its a problem too if you edit a subclass without realising it is just a virtual clip so every instance will be edited. Sometimes thats a good thing, but not always. The issue is that this happens invisibly so you have to be very careful working with these virtual clips. Subclips are safer - you always know whats happening - and that's increasingly difficult when you have lots of subclips which are really the same material but grouped separately.
Its much the same with all Apple's software today - its all written from some other planet. I have had to take out a subscription to Office 365, use Dropbox and oneDrive instead if iCloud and download Resolve to deal with my Blackmagic camera. Its a consumer world at Apple now - and an iMovie view of the world. Apple like to hide half the functionality because they think it makes things look easy. Their manuals are useless and their online Help worse.
And yes, thanks for the Shift-Z. That works, though finding it in the manual is another matter. But why this behaviour in the first place? Is there any reason why you would want your timeline to start halfway across the screen? Why doesn't the clip just snap back to the left as it would in any other editor? Its little quirks like this that make this a very frustrating experience. I am not editing all the time - I am just as likely to be in Dreamweaver, Indesign, Illustrator or Photoshop - or working on business projects. I don't feel I should have to wade through a badly written user guide or ask basic questions in this forum every time I come back to FCP Pro X - that was never the case with the old FCP. Its just like the clock on my car - daylight saving happens here twice every year and the time has to be changed. I always need to refer to the manual. To my mind that is a crap user interface.
FCP Pro X has some nice new features. But its hard to justify this when everything else is so hard to use. Its like connected tracks. Why is that an improvement? I always start with an audio track from my master camera - because its on tape and runs for the whole take - but its impossible (or very difficult) to do this in FCP Pro X. If I have a jumble of clips and its not clear where they fit, I can't assemble them, in sequence on a separate track - I have to connect them, arbitrarily, to an existing track. And then undo that connection later. I have to rethink my workflow every time to try and fit in with FCP Pro X.
In an earlier life I was a software developer. The golden rule of applications in business was that you built your application to suit the workflow of the user. You could streamline it, but not change the sequence unless the business had made a decision to do that already. I wrote quite a few large applications for various areas of the business - I used them to make sure they worked, and I used the existing workflow. A user could come back from holidays and know immediately how to use the app to do their job. A new user could use the app without weeks of training. Its not hard to write intuitive software - but its impossible if you set out to impose a new workflow or method of organisation on a user.
Apple seem to have missed this altogether. FCP will always be a dog, for that reason alone. I have never used Avid or Premiere Pro, but I imagine no-one else has adopted Apple's upside-down way of doing things. That spells lots of training issues for anyone adopting FCP Pro X. And now since you have to work with colour grading apps, like Resolve, users have to work backwards for Apple and forwards for everyone else, in the same project.
After this project I am going to look seriously at Premiere Pro - but only if I decide I can't use Resolve on its own for everything. I have been an Apple diehard for 12 years after being a Windows guru for a decade before that. I am close to giving up on Apple. Having to buy Office was very difficult - but the Apple apps have been dumbed down (Pages) or were never up to the mark (Numbers). I can't use iCloud because it doesn't support half my material so I have Microsoft oneDrive which also goes against the grain. And I am running Yosemite which means crashes at regular intervals and reboots several times a day.
I am an Apple shareholder too. But I beginning to think they have lost the plot. I hope not.

How do you change the timeline duration in Photoshop CC?

There seems to be 5 second limit on the duration of the timeline in Photoshop version 2014.
How can you extend the duration of the animation? There's a timeline window, but no "animation" window as mentioned in many of the help files.
How do you change the duration in Photoshop 2014?
I'm using Windows 8.1 as my OS.
Thanks.

Thanks for the reply, but my point was not about the lack of creating animations.
It seems that in Photoshop CC, you cannot change the duration of the timeline unless you click on the end of a clip and drag it out which will then give you more time. As the original post mentioned, you automatically get a 5 second duration unless you have a video clip that is of longer time. This all makes sense for videos, I understand that nobody (usually) wants to stretch video. Video by nature will extend the timeline based on how much footage is present.
Now take an animation scenario where you want to create something from scratch that spans longer than the default 5 seconds. There is no option!!! No document settings, nothing that will allow you to extend the timeline. I now have to click and drag each layer clip on the timeline to give it more time for the animation, one by one might I add (you can't even highlight multiple clips and extend them all at once, which is crazy).
So what does this mean? Well if you create a mockup of something with all of these intricate layers including backgrounds, copy etc. and you only intended to animate a certain piece for say 8 seconds, you'll have to extend each and every single layer clip in the timeline otherwise they will magically disappear and the only thing displaying is that which you have extended manually.
The reason why you need a document settings in the timeline is to prevent content from disappearing if something extends for a certain amount of time.
Frame by frame animations only allow for so much functionality, try to animate multiple objects at once with frames and go back and make a change to one part...
CS5 would simply show everything regardless if they did nothing on the timeline, it allowed you to see all of your elements present.
Again, I stand by my statement saying that the new timeline is flawed.

How can I view the timeline for a event

I'm a bit of a newbie in iMovie 10 and don't seem to be able to find a way to turn on a timeline display for a Project. In other words, if I want to start a clip at 11:54 and end it at 13:10, where can I see that information? Shouldn't there be a continuous display showing me where I am in a Project?
Many thanks for any help.

Hello BocaBoy
You should see the timeline in the middle of the window and it will be above the string of clips for your movie that you are currently making. For the events and the collection of clips, you will need to import them in and then trim down or you can select the section of the clip and drag in down to the timeline. Check out the articles below to go over using iMovie.
Select clips
http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/#move8b2e15e3
Trim, split, and move clips
http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/#movf8b8fc9b2
Regards,
-Norm G.

How do i pause the timeline cursor at the point where i press the spacebar

Right now the cursor always goes to the start of the timeline after i press the spacebar.

You have received 40 or so views in less than an hour. Sometimes it takes days for other suers to drop by and your post is arriving during the start of a long holiday weekend in the Sates so it might not be till next week befor someone who really knows how to answer this shows up. Your post is being viewed by people who want to know if you are serious but have no help to offer. Woudl you rather they posted nonsense? I have never had AE jumpt back to the start of the timeline and posting that information does not help you. I can assume you have a some sort of pref incorrectly set or your keyboard has been tweaked at the OS level to interpret a spacebar in AE as a Media Start command.
From the AE help system:
To modify keyboard shortcuts, use the KeyEd Up script from Jeff Almasol, which is available on the Adobe After Effects Exchange website.
Sebastien Perier provides instructions on his website for assigning keyboard shortcuts to scripts so that you can run a script with a single keystroke. This technique relies on the KeyEd Up script.
For information on remapping keyboard shortcuts for keyboard layouts other than the standard US English layout, see Jonas Hummelstrand’s website.
For a reference of keyboard shortcuts, see Keyboard shortcuts reference.
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Time navigation (keyboard shortcuts)
Go to specific time
Alt+Shift+J
Option+Shift+J
Go to beginning or end of work area
Shift+Home or Shift+End
Shift+Home or Shift+End
Go to previous or next visible item in time ruler (keyframe, layer marker, work area beginning or end)
Note: Also goes to beginning, end, or base frame of Roto Brush span if viewing Roto Brush in Layer panel.
J or K
J or K
Go to beginning of composition, layer, or footage item
Home or Ctrl+Alt+Left Arrow
Home or Command+Option+Left Arrow
Go to end of composition, layer, or footage item
End or Ctrl+Alt+Right Arrow
End or Command+Option+Right Arrow
Go forward 1 frame
Page Down or Ctrl+Right Arrow
Page Down or Command+Right Arrow
Go forward 10 frames
Shift+Page Down or Ctrl+Shift+Right Arrow
Shift+Page Down or Command+Shift+Right Arrow
Go backward 1 frame
Page Up or Ctrl+Left Arrow
Page Up or Command+Left Arrow
Go backward 10 frames
Shift+Page Up or Ctrl+Shift+Left Arrow
Shift+Page Up or Command+Shift+Left Arrow
Go to layer In point
I
I
Go to layer Out point
O
O
Go to previous In point or Out point
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Left Arrow
Command+Option+Shift+Left Arrow
Go to next In point or Out point
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Right Arrow
Command+Option+Shift+Right Arrow
Scroll to current time in Timeline panel
D
D
To the top
Previews (keyboard shortcuts)
Start or stop standard preview
spacebar
spacebar
RAM preview
0 on numeric keypad*
0 on numeric keypad* or Control+0 (zero) on main keyboard
RAM preview with alternate settings
Shift+0 on numeric keypad*
Shift+0 on numeric keypad* or Shift+Control+0 (zero) on main keyboard
Save RAM preview
Ctrl-click RAM Preview button or press Ctrl+0 on numeric keypad*
Command-click RAM Preview button or press Command+0 on numeric keypad*
Save RAM preview with alternate settings
Ctrl+Shift-click RAM Preview button or press Ctrl+Shift+0 on numeric keypad*
Command+Shift-click RAM Preview button or press Command+Shift+0 on numeric keypad*
Preview only audio, from current time
. (decimal point) on numeric keypad*
. (decimal point) on numeric keypad* or Control+. (period) on main keyboard
Preview only audio, in work area
Alt+. (decimal point) on numeric keypad*
Option+. (decimal point) on numeric keypad* or Control+Option+. (period) on main keyboard
Manually preview (scrub) video
Drag or Alt-drag current-time indicator, depending on Live Update setting
Drag or Option-drag current-time indicator, depending on Live Update setting
Manually preview (scrub) audio
Ctrl-drag current-time indicator
Command-drag current-time indicator
RAM preview number of frames specified by Alternate RAM Preview preference (defaults to 5)
Alt+0 on numeric keypad*
Option+0 on numeric keypad* or Control+Option+0 (zero) on main keyboard
Show current frame on video preview device
/ (on numeric keypad)
/ (on numeric keypad)
Toggle Output Device preference between Desktop Only and video preview device
Ctrl+/ (on numeric keypad)
Command+/ (on numeric keypad)
Take snapshot
Shift+F5, Shift+F6, Shift+F7, or Shift+F8
Shift+F5, Shift+F6, Shift+F7, or Shift+F8
Display snapshot in active viewer
F5, F6, F7, or F8
F5, F6, F7, or F8
Purge snapshot
Ctrl+Shift+F5, Ctrl+Shift+F6, Ctrl+Shift+F7, or Ctrl+Shift+F8
Command+Shift+F5, Command+Shift+F6, Command+Shift+F7, or Command+Shift+F8
Note: Some shortcuts are marked with an asterisk (*) to remind you to make sure that Num Lock is on when you use the numeric keypad.

Is there a way to see all my compound clips created on the timeline, in the browser as an accessible thumbnail list....?

I am facing a problem that
due to big footage I first extracted the seemingly fine clips in chunks in one timeline in various layers which is still enormous for my RAM
now I have to take out smaller and more appropriate bits from this timeline
I have opened another timeline where I just copy paste the best shots from my previous enormous timeline and this works fine due to less media for 6gb RAM mac pro
but it is really tedious to go back and forth to copy paste
it would be so wonderful if I could extract those bits from the clips just like we do with any other new footage from the browser window with all the clips visible
I think one way can be to export these compound clips seperately and import them as events into the browser but that would be a generation loss
is there any other way.....? to view these compound clips infront of my eyes all at once or keeping all that footage on the timeline besides the finalising layer is the only option...?
I am facing this rare problem because I'm editing a music video and no shot is more than 2 seconds and that too from several groups of footage that has to be mixed.....so all the data has to be visible to decide if a bit of guitar piece would look good here or drums or close up or long shot.....so everything has to be seen....can you suggest me a smarter workaround please ?

Thank you.Ok say for e.g.
500 video files imported in fcpx
800 clips extracted from these obviously on the timeline and joined/compounded according to their content in say 15 layers according to 15 instruments used ,so now just to see the entire usable footage ....
now one 7 minute song sequence has to be made where bits would be simultaneously taken from these 15 layers as all instruments are playing simultaneously
these shots are not more than 2 secs each according to the beat........
when I try to work with these 15 layers as well as the Final primary layer that I'm making in the same timeline my fcpx becomes slow
but when I drag individual layer to individual timelines it is fine so that is the only option
but now for every 2 second bit I have to go back to the 15 layered timeline and find one single suitable shot
So I was wondering is there a way to be able to see these layers and clips on the timeline in the browser in a systematic fashion like the way we get with keywords ?
and keywords can only be used in the imported clips already in the browser ,and not after we drag it on the timeline.....
Till now I think exporting and importing back is the only option ...but is there another work around ?

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