FCP 7 - make a bunch of small clips already in TL - same duration

looked at copy paste attribs but this doesnt seem to allow this
tried multiselecting and option-drag (doesnt work)
is there not some easier way to change the duration of multiple clips at the with a simple keyboard command or GUI technique ?

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How do i break 1 long clip into a bunch of small clips

ok so i captured "now" about 60 min of footage. then i pressed dv start stop which made a bunch of markers. i selected all the markers and pressed "make sublip". now I want to make all the subclips except for like 2 - into their own independent quicktime movie. but for some reason every way I try it, it always makes another big single quicktime movie. what am I doing wrong?

I think you're making life a little tricky for yourself. read up on 'Log and Capture' and 'Batch Capture' as the appropriate way of capturing media.

Mashing small clips together to make one large one!?

i figured ou thow to do this once, but now i cant remember.
i need to mesh a bunch of small clips together to make a large one so i can do a longer transition.

.. if You had some short clips and applyed a text on them.
And the text just using some spaces (no letters) then it would merge the
clips together...
never tried (.. never needed.. ), but a clever one!!
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How to Turn Long DV video into Smaller Clips to Edit

Hi everyone, I've googled and fiddled around for hours trying to figure out how to splice up my rather long DV file (converted over from a home wedding DVD) to begin editting. I've tried creating markers and then subclipping - but that doesn't seem to work. Nothing happens. Is there an easy way to do this?
How I've been doing it:
Create new project. Then import the DV file. There appears in the browser the 'sequence1' and then the DV file. I grab it into the viewer and then drag it also into the timeline. However, I get a red bar, so I render it. After this, the the canvas displays the timeline video but the viewer video is completely separate. They still play the same DV but not simultaneously. I don't know how to go about clipping this large file so that I can edit each scene separately. How do I splice this long segment into smaller clips that show up in my browser for editting?
Thank you so much for your help!!

Well... I'd suggest you either reconvert that file to a dv codec .mov file, or start again with the dvd file conversion.
You've got to forget everything you knew about imovie. FCP and imovie are built on completely different paradigms. Final cut is a non-destructive editor. No matter WHAT you do in FCP, the actual media clip remains unchanged, just like your father's face a week after you tell him you wrecked the family car.
After you've got your correct .mov file, import it into fcp. Open it in the viewer. Play down until you find the first part you want to use. Press "I" for an in point, play down until you want it to end, then press "O" for out. Then press command U, or go to the modify menu and select Make Subclip.
You'll get a little jagged media icon in your browser window. It makes good sense to name it something more than what fcp names it., so you'll be able to find it again.
I personally don't like to work with subclips. Usually I'll capture in logical chunks. But you can't do that with your one long file. What I do instead of subclipping is to add my select shots into a sequence. Then I'll duplicate the sequence and start working with that- rearranging, deleting etc, until I'm happy.
Hope this is useful.

Why does FCP X chop import files into tiny clips?

When I import from my mini DV camcorder or my mini DV videodeck, the video is chopped up into hundreds or thousands of small files, some shorter than 1 second in length. This happens on all tapes I try to use, and all tapes have continuous time codes. When I simply play the video (using the space bar or the 'j,k,l' keys) from either the camcorder or videodeck, the video is seen to play smoothly in the import monitoring window. But as soon as I click 'import', the video display is very rough and cuts out frequently, sometimes with audio pops, even though there is no sound recorded with the video. I have tried saving the video to a video archive, but when I import the archive into FCP X, the same problem of hundreds of small files recurs. I have tried deleting my FCP preferences and restarting, but nothing helps. This makes importing usable files very problematic. Even if I save the files as a compound clip, some of the little mini-clips have not imported properly and can't be used, which creates little blank spaces in the output video. This problem did not exist using the same mini DV video equipment and the Log and Capture window in FCP 7 and it should not be occurring in FCP X. It's as if Apple has engineered FCP to be too tight around video clips which may have a tiny time code problem. The problem seems to be getting worse, since now a 1 hour videotape results in over 1,500 individual clips.
I am using a Mac Pro tower, OS X 19.7.4, recording to a 2 disc RAID array with 2.6 TB free space available.

I've given up with Final Cut X. For the beginner it may be an easy way to learn to edit video but it is far removed from the professional editors such as Mediacomposer, Finalcut Pro, Premier Pro etc, that we were hoping it could grow towards in the future.
I know that Apple decided they wanted to deal only with the consumer and created an enormous backlash from the broadcast TV community who had invested in Macs and FCP but I would have expected the application to have been tested properly with all versions of the OS. Apple afterall have full control of the platform unlike any other software developer.
What greatly disappoints me though is to come to this app and to immediately find a problem with it. I can only assume this has been broken by Mountain Lion as it did work briefly under Lion.
So, back to Final Cut Pro, which incidently ingested all the clips that failed under FC X without issue.
Richard.

Debate on effect of single large clip vs smaller clips

Here's the situation: I shot a competition in 1 take per tape, no breaks, in HD. I have an external drive with plenty of room. I'd love to just feed these tapes to the monster and walk away to do something else. However, a friend of mine says that will slow everything down during editing and that I need to digitize individual performances as smaller clips. On the other hand, someone else told me the size of the source file doesn't matter.
Since I never stopped the camera, there are no time code breaks to automatically separate the files. My plan was to feed them in, then quickly go through and make subclips. I would edit based on the subclips.
Has anyone tried both techniques and found any difference in rendering or exporting time? Thanks.

FCE is a non-destructive editor. Whether you have a bunch of small imported clips or one big chunk will not make any difference to the performance.
You could save some drive space by capturing judiciously. Your call on that.
There's no need to make sub-clips unless there is a special need.
Open one big clip in the Viewer from the Browser, set an In/Out point and edit that to the Timeline.
Repeat the same procedure using different In/Out points from the same big clip and so on.
Non-destructive means you call up the media stored on the Scratch Disc. No media is duplicated in the Browser, Viewer or Timeline. All things here are file-paths to the actual media on the Scratch Disc.
Al

In making a "highlights" movie, using clips from different imported iMovie events, can I delete the larger iMovie event file from the Events browser and still work w the smaller clips in the Projects browser w/o having the larger files still loaded?

I have sucessfully imported 150 Sony digital 8mm movies (each one hour in length) into iMovie as 150 iMovie events. I have since successfully converted them from their original 13 Gb (.dv) file to an exported smaller 1.3 Gb (.4mv "large file") movie that I am happy with, using the iMovie projects browser. So now I have 150 " .4mv" movies on my internal HD as well as about half of my original raw data " .dv " movies on my internal hard drive.
Due to their large size (over 2 Tb), I do not have all the larger raw data (.dv) files on my 2Tb internal drive, just about half of them. What I want to do now is to create a new project in the Projects browser for each of my kids, and reload, starting with Tape #1, each of these larger files and do a highlights movie for each of my kids, wherein I pick out smaller clips from each 1 hour .dv iMovie event and paste them into the appropriate kid's Highlights project in the Projects browser.
Here's my question: If I load the first 5 large files back onto my internal HD, and paste in various shorter clips into each of my kids' Highlights project, and then if I delete those first 5 large files (they are backed up on 2 other 3Tb external HDs), can I keep doing this (reloading the next 5 large .dv files to work with), and ultimately take each of my kid's Highlights project and export as a .4mv movie EVEN THOUGH the earlier large .dv files are no longer on my internal HD, OR does my iMac need to have all these larger files loaded on my internal HD for me to eventually export each of my kid's Highlights project to a .4mv movie?
I have a 2011 era 27" iMac desktop w 2Tb HD internal and 250 Gb flash drive, and Lion OSX and iMovie 11.

Thanks. I tested it out and you were correct. I loaded 2 .dv movies from my external HD back onto my internal HD, and got them re-imported into iMovie, took a few short clips from each of the 2 iMovie events and pasted them into a new project in the Project Browser. Then I deleted these 2 "source clips" from my internal HD, closed iMovie and then re-opened it and found that iMovie would NOT export the smaller clips for a "highlights" .4mv movie without the "source clips" being available.
I read your link on Quicktime. It talks about mostly trimming, which is what I did with each iMovie event before I took each one as a project to export as a smaller .4mv file. But if I use Quicktime (do I need QT Pro or basic), what advantage is it to me to use QT over iMovie (I must admit I am a novice at iMovie and have never used QT or QT Pro as a tool)? Will it then convert any edits I make to a .m4v movie or do I need iMovie to do that?
Does QT allow trimming multiple segments out of a movie during one edit session, or can you only do 1 at a time? By that I mean that, for example, when I use Sonys Picture Motion Browser for my .mts movies, you can only set one Start and one End point for each edit/trim you do: it does not allow you to set multiple Start Stop points like iMovie allows in its Event or Project browser. You can only do one "trim" at a time, save it and then reopen to do another trim. not very useful.

FCP 5.1.4 no longer playing clips it used to play w/o rendering first

G5 2.7 Dual GHz PPC, 4.5 GB SDRAM, OSX 10.4.11
I haven’t used FCP 5.1.4 for quite a while. I digitized some home movie footage from miniDV directly into FCP 5.1.4. It plays back fine in the preview window. It plays fine if I open it up and play it from Quicktime v 7.6.4 (518.35). But when I put the FCP digitized clip in the timeline I get the red line indicating that it has to be rendered before I can see it play back in the canvas window. I tried to digitize new footage thru firewire directly into FCP with the same result – plays fine in the preview window and in QT. But it won’t play in the timeline / canvas window until I render it first. And the render file is twice the size of the original footage I digitized directly into FCP.
Also, playback is getting stuck on footage that used to play fine. The audio keeps playing alright, but the video gets stuck, then catches up and plays a bit, then gets stuck again, sometimes never coming back. If I export the file as a QT movie, the QT movie plays with the video getting stuck – I don’t know if it’s in the same places. But it makes exporting a waste of time as an option to “work around” the problem.
Did something change in FCP in the last year that I am not aware of? Like, maybe, FCP now upconverts / up-renders DV footage as HD footage as a default, or something like that? I used to just digitize 4:3 standard def footage into FCP, then drag it down into the time line, hit the space bar, and FCP would just play the files. Trim, delete sections, normal edits, and FCP would always play w/o rendering.
I don’t want to upconvert any of my standard def 4:3 home movies. I just want to digitize the footage thru / via DV, make some straight cuts, adjust low volume, put in some chapter markers, and send the edited home movies to Compressor so I can make DVD’s out of my home movies. I’m not even putting in transitions and FCP says I have to render the entire file from beginning to end!
I did add an iPhone to the scenario since I last used FCP. I noticed that the syncing that seems to go on constantly as a result of / related to the iPhone seems to reek havoc with FCP. So I shut auto-sync off. Now I have double everything in my iPhone again. But I’ll do whatever I have to in order to be able to use FCP to make DVD’s of all my old home movies.
I stopped using this USB 2.0 drive. The last time I tried to digitize something it was on an internal hard drive – separate from my boot drive, and not a partition of my boot drive, a separate internal hard drive, which should be even faster than the firewire 400 hard drives I used to use.
Please tell me if there is something I have to unselect to make FCP 5.1.4 just stay in Standard Def 4:3 so I can just edit my home movies without having to use 166% more hard drive space and wait for rendering on most everything I do.
If my session is corrupt and I have to start all over in a new session, please let me know whether there is a way to export the chapter markers that I’ve already painstakingly inserted on the home movies I’ve already struggled through, so I don’t have to re-figure, re-locate, re-name, and recreate them again. Even a printout of the chapter marker location times and the names of the chapters in simple text format would be better than having to recreate each and every one of them from scratch all over again.
Thank you.
Options – that were already – selected in User Prefs:
Sync audio capture to video source if present
Warn when importing non-optimized media
Auto-render
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Render RT Segments
Message was edited by: Tone Sanchez

As far as I can tell, they are not different, except for:
Aud Rate: 48001.8Hz on the older clip
Aud Rate: 48001.9Hz on the new clip
I cannot explain why the sample rates are not 48000 exactly. I didn't try to digitize them at the rates they digitized. The first, older clip came off of a miniDV tape via firewire from a JVC SR-VS30 miniDV / S-VHS deck. The second, new clip was digitized from the original BetaMax recording, in real time, through the same JVC SR-VS30 miniDV / S-VHS deck configuration, FCP set to DVDVCPRO50, the standard setting for DV that was the preset, that I have always used, using the miniDV deck as a "non-controllable device" source, recording into FCP in real time "Capture Now". Below are the Item Properties and the Sequence Settings:
Item Properties for “GM reads letter pt 1” older clip – this file has been rendered:
Creator: QuickTime Player
Size: 3.9 GB
Tracks 1V, 2A
Vid Rate: 29.97
Frame Size: 720 x 480
Compressor: DV/DVCPRO – NTSC
Data Rate: 3.6 MB/sec
Pixel Aspect: NTSC – CCIR 601
Field Dominance: Lower (Even)
Alpha: None/Ignore
Composite: Normal
Audio: Stereo
Aud Rate: 48001.8Hz
Aud Format: 16-bit Integer
Item Properties for “GM Pete Beg to end real time” new clip – this file has NOT been rendered:
Creator: QuickTime Player
Size: 16.6 GB
Tracks 1V, 2A
Vid Rate: 29.97
Frame Size: 720 x 480
Compressor: DV/DVCPRO – NTSC
Data Rate: 3.6 MB/sec
Pixel Aspect: NTSC – CCIR 601
Field Dominance: Lower (Even)
Alpha: None/Ignore
Composite: Normal
Audio: Stereo
Aud Rate: 48001.9Hz
Aud Format: 16-bit Integer
Sequence Settings – General for GM reads letter pt 1 clip:
720 x 480 NTSC DV (3:2)
NTSC – CCIR 601 / DV (720 x 480)
Lower (Even)
Editing Timebase: 29.97
Compressor DVCPRO50 – NTSC
Quality: 100%
Audio Settings: 48 kHz
Depth: 16-bit
Config: Default
Sequence Settings – Video Processing for GM reads letter pt 1 clip:
Render in 8-bit YUV
Process Maximum White as: White
Motion Filtering Quality: Normal
Sequence Settings – Timeline Options for GM reads letter pt 1 clip:
Starting TC: 01:00:00:00 Non-Drop Frame
Track Display Selected:
Show Keyframe Overlays
Show Audio Waveforms
Show Through Edits
Show Duplicate Frames
Video:
Motion Bar
Filters Bar
Keyframe Editor
Speed Indicators
Audio:
Filters Bar
Keyframe Editor
Speed Indicators
Render & Playback:
Filters
Frame Blending For Speed
Motion Blur
Render:
Frame Rate: 100%
Resolution: 100%
Audio Outputs: 2
Downmix: 0
Grouping: Stereo

IMovie HD 6.0.3: After making 10 movies where I clipped portions from a larger clip (and exported the smaller clips), suddenly iMovie clips are much shorter after I export them.

Hi there,
I am using iMovie HD 6.0.3 on an older MacBookPro (OS X, 10.4.11).
I took an AVI video and imported that into iMovie HD.
I then created smaller clips out of that - like editing a 20 minute video into small, 30 second clips.
I made about 10 of these smaller clips, exported them using "expert settings," and burned the results to DVD. These all worked fine.
Suddenly, the final product that I export is much shorter than the clip I created. For example, I'll create a 30 second smaller clip from the original. When I review this 30 second clip, it is what I wanted.
When I export this 30 second clip, it makes a QuickTime movie that is only 23 seconds. (The first 10 I made did not do this).
I tried extending my clip by 7 seconds, hoping to end up with a 30 second clip after exporting. The result was even shorter - like 15 seconds.
I have checked disk space - it has at least 500 GB free space. I have tried exporting the clip to both my laptop and to an external hard drive. The results are the same.
I just tried using the "crop" feature to see if my end product was better - but it was the same.
Does anyone know what is going on? Why did this start after making 10 successful exports? What can I do to get it working right again, as I have 3 more clips to make and am running up against a deadline.
Thanks so much!
Heidi

Since I can't edit this post... (Why?) I'd add: fast forwarding and fast reverse (shift key and arrow left or right) the HA files is also not smooth. They play alright. I'm surprised iMovie can't handle them either. I didn't have a problem with the earlier camcorder's HA files... (All were converted MTS files using Movie Converter.)

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Make a matte in Photoshop.
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I switched from Final Cut and I absolutely love premiere pro.
The ONLY THING... that I can't seem to get past is that it's incredibly hard to select the center of small clips, because as i hover my mouse towards the center of the clip, the edges always want to seize the attention of my cursor as if I might want to drag the edge of the clip or apply a transition. I guess it's determining the number of pixels that my cursor is away from the edge of a clip, but I want to turn that number down.
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I have a similar issue with clip stickiness.
In regard to your issue...zooming in is the only thing I have found.
My issue.!
If one has a bunch of clips butted together (same video track) and one wishes to Nudge any one of them... CTRL-Shift->....the edge of all adjoining clips get affected and dragged by the action. Works like a Rolling Trim Edit.
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How would I cut one long clip in to many smaller clips and then put those clips back in to the bin for later
I have a few long clips but only want peices of them

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1) leave extra room on the in out points when the big clip is in the source monitor and you are deciding on the subciip length...so if you have to adjust later you have "handles" to expand a little bit ...
2) if you dont have to make subclips "dont" ...just drag from source monitor to timeline...using the in out points...as it makes no real difference to the original video file...its just code in the program... however, in my case I wanted to the subclips due to learning about "scripted" stuff and 3 cameras...
Then I discovered (tutorial) that by choosing in out points in the source monitor and dragging that straight to the project panel it automatically creates the subclip and all you have to do is "name" it...or leave default timecode name...saved a lot of time cause I was using the mouse to choose "create subclip" etc before I learned about that shortcut

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I captured several one-hour tapes with an older version of Windows Movie Maker.
They are AVI files.
I'd like to work with the footage when I purchase Premiere Pro CS5.5 or CS6.
Each tape is composed of several starts and stops of the record button, so lots of individual clips inside of the hour-long captured footage.
In Premiere Pro CS 5.5, is there a way to automatically split a large clip into smaller clips at the points where I started and stopped the camera?
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Flyingfish,
I cannot tell you that.
Historically, with "consumer" CODEC's, PrE often gets native support, before PrPro.
However, with "professional" CODEC's, such as RED, PrPro has those, but PrE will likely never get them. There are some pro CODEC's, that PrPro does have, that PrE is missing, but I do not have a list.
Good luck, and wish that I had more info for you.
Hunt

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Great place for help...here goes again!
I am going through 15 years of tapes and making a backup DVD of each one for archive. Fine and dandy...and quite fun.
I am trying to save various 1-10 minute clips from these 50 tapes (now in iMovie ) to pull together something for grandmas.
So, when I save a 1 min clip (and sending to a new project that I'm building up), I guess the computer (in the new project) is saving the entire clip/segment it came from--not just the 1-2 minutes I had edited. In some cases, this is 1 hour (PS: When I import tape from older analog 8mm format it does not make automatic chapters....I could import 60 minutes with some 20 scenes, it adds it to iMovie as one 60 min clip...I have to then cut and splice and add chaptesr later).
So.....if I have a one hour iMovie, and wish to export one 2 min clip to another project, and takes a ton of memory, and my new proj. is approaching 60 GIG.
I REALIZE I could save the new clips in quick time. But is there a way to save these smaller clips in the highest of quality and export them to the newer project I am building up?
Jon
G5 Desktop Mac OS X (10.4.3)

I REALIZE I could save the new clips in quick time.
But is there a way to save these smaller clips in the
highest of quality and export them to the newer
project I am building up?
Select the clip in iMovie and Share it to a Full Quality movie. In the Share dialog, turn on the checkbox "Export selected clips only". That exports only the clip, not its entire source file.
Later, import that movie to your grandmas project.
Theoretically, you can export a single clip to tape that way too. Sometimes the export fails to stop at the selected clip, so you have to stop it manually.
That's a good way to use the method Bengt suggested which may be easiest, and it saves disk space. Start a new grandmas tape, and export all the grandmas clips to that tape as you encounter them. Later, import the grandmas tape to a new grandmas project.
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