Feature request: Connect a clip in between other clips shortcut

One of the things that slows me down the most when editing in FCPX is the ability to connect a clip and have it go where I want it vertically in the timeline (above or below other connected clips in the timeline). It would be GREAT to be able to just hover the mouse pointer in the space in between two clips in the timeline and then hit a shortcut key (similar to Q) a "Connect Between Clips" shortcut key to connect a clip and have it go into that space.
If you feel this feature request would benefit you as well please submit a feature request to Apple.
Thank you!

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So i've been editing for hours, and somehow, the first 30 seconds of my movie were screwed up. So now i'm trying to re-edit the first 30 seconds. When i try to delete a clip, the rest of the clips following the deleted one, move over to this empty space. I do not want this to happen!!!!! I want the other clips to stay in the same place!!!! How do I delete a clip without having all the clips after it move over to the deleted space????
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Hello, richardzulu!
Welcome to the discussions.
In answer to your question, the clips behind the one you delete must move over to close the gap between the clips, an empty space left by the clip that you deleted. Otherwise, you would have a black/blank part in your movie.
You CAN purposely create a black clip if you wish, but probably you just want the movie to continue as you have created it, leaving out the deleted clip. If your movie is just video, it should work out to be the same once the deleted clip is gone.
However, if you have added some other audio, and not locked it to its corresponding video clip, the timing of the audio to the video will be off. Use the "Advanced" tool to select 'Lock audio clip at playhead' to avoid this. Once the audio is locked to a specific video clip, edits to other clips can be done without separating the audio and video. Occasionally, they still do get misaligned, so you do have to keep checking.
If you really want to keep all the other clips the same without doing anything else, switch to Timeline view, and move the trailing movie over from the clip you want to delete, making sure that the length you move is the same as the clip to be deleted. Then, delete the clip. iMovie will create a black clip in that space and the rest of your clips will remain untouched. However, as I said, the movie will be interupted by this black clip.

Smooth transition from (warp) Stabilized clip to the other clips on the timeline

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But you said "transition" - first word, second line?
If you stabilise and export a clip with handles, you can then apply transitions without problem, to the new clip.
Applying the stabiliser to the entire 2 minute clip, if that is what you mean, would not work. There would be too much motion overall for the stabiliser to achieve an acceptable result.
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How can I squeeze a clip in between another clip?

I'm not sure if there is a better way to explain my question than simply writing it out: Imagine Clips A, B and C
A=====B======C=====
I want to move C between A and B so it looks like this:
A=====C=====B======
Notice how C just gets nicely squeezed between A and B with no space or gaps between the clips. Everything just sort of snaps into place.
I know something similar is possible when you insert a clip for the first time with the "insert edit" tool. But that seems to just be for clips that are in the 'All Clips' bank. What I want to do is move/insert clips that are already in the story line.
If I try to "squeeze" a clip in between 2 other clips (with the Select tool), it pushes the other clips above or below the clip I am trying to squeeze in between. I don't want it above or below--I want it in between them!
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vwg wrote:
… all of my clips have that. is there a way to detach or remove those? thanks!
… sorry to say - your discription/screen-shot confuses me a bit …
it looks like, your work-flow doesn't match with the intended one in FCPX:
• everything is based upon a 'storyline' - a 'main track'
• 'docking' anything (clips, stills, audio) upon or below it, gives the question: Why not IN the storyline?
• if you 'compose' such a cluster of clips, you'll notice those tiny 'legs' you called it - because, the storyline is The Master - if the storyline's clip, that other clips are connected to, is moved, everything's connected to it moves with it = magnetic timeline
• if you do NOT want that additional material being connected to a 'Master' - then, why not putting it into the storyline
• I use tons of cut-aways in my lil' sport-documentaries - for a quick 'first sight/first snych' I put'em on top of the main storyline; but the moment, I decided "yes, fits!", I press cmd-alt-down arrow: instantly, the connected clip gets a normal clip in the storyline - where it belongs! … and behaves like any other clip
the easiest way to understand that concept:
• think of a Lower-third-Title you add to some clip (e.g. person's name) - you move the video clip = the title SHOULD move too!
• but… if the Title is a clip of its own (e.g. "Here comes the bride") - it shouldn't be 'connected' to anything - it HAS to be part of the storyline! When you realize, the bride comes later, you can move it… that simple.
stacking clips: only, when a 'Master', a Main Cam content or just audio, e.g. music or an interview exists, and this is additional material
in all other cases, your material should be in the Storyline.
Even if you show a dozen pictures and 300 soundeffects simultanously - there's allways just ONE 'pace maker' - the story(line).
btw: this is one of the very major differences to other NLEs - and it needs a while to 'get it'

Pasting clips in between existing clips without Splitting

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Rich,
You are correct, regarding the Audio Tracks. PE doesn't know if those are Audio from the Video Clips, or something else entirely. The same would happen, if you had, say a Title, spanning across the gap, on Video Track 2. No "Delete and Close Gaps."
In these cases, you can Lasso all of the Video Clips beyond the gap (they will appear Selected/purple) and then you can move them, as one.
I wish that there was a keystroke combo to basically, "select all Clips on this Track, beyond the point of the CTI." Even PrPro does not offer that. Personally, I'd make it Ctrl-Alt-L (for Lasso), but so far, Adobe has not seen fit to incorporate this, per my feature requests.
Now, in PrPro CS4, there is an added feature Track Targeting. For some old-time users, it gets in the way, but it should allow for more things like Lasso'ing all remaining Clips, etc. Since there is no "Delete and Close Gaps," that entire feature would have to be added, and maybe with Track Targeting, it could work like you wish PE to. Trust me, you are not alone and the Audio (or other Video Track) material gets in a lot of people's way.
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Hi Todd,
Sorry I replied to you in the Creative Cow forum. Just in case you didn't see my reply there, I'm reposting it here:
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2. Export this small section as, say, ProRes
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Good morning from Tanzania!
I have exported a movie (around 2mins) from windows media format to M4v format, for use in quicktime.
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Of course. Split at playhead using Command-T.

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Artistry wrote:
ETA; When I look closely, I think the black gap between the two clips is larger than the slight black gap between normal clips, so maybe that does indicate there's something there?
Here is a shot of a time line where I have zoomed in as far as I can. At this level of zoom, a single frame can barely fit on my screen. If you maximize your zoom you should see only the thin line as shown between the partial frame on the right and the one on the left. If you see something more – either a gap or a clip with content – you should be able to select and delete it.
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Reality:
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Feature Request: Apply effects to group of clip instances

I have been trying to supply this feature request into the Adobe feedback form. But it appeared that it was too large to be posted in a single feedback form. So I had to split it into three distinct feedback forms.
I don't want this feature request to get lost just because those three parts can't be joined back into a single feature request again. So I'd like to post it here, requesting for comments, too...
This feature request is about applying effects to more than one clip:
a)
Currently, when selecting more than one clip, it's not possible to change any effects settings. The Effects Settings windows only shows a "Multiple clips selected" message.
Thus, I'd like to suggest the following:
When selecting more than one clip, the Effects Settings window should display any effects that apply to all the selected clips. Moreover, only those effect parameter values should be displayed having the same value across all selected effects. This on the other hand, of course, can only be displayed for effect parameters not having key frames/timing activated.
Editing any of the displayed effects' parameters should apply the new value to each currently selected clip instance.
b)
Then again, when using key frame/timing activated effect parameters, it is currently not possible to apply such effect to more than a clip, too. To apply such animated effects to more than one clip it is currently necessary to nest those clips into a separate sequence.
Thus, I'd like to suggest the following improvement:
It should be possible to apply effects not only to clips but also to a group of clips (Menu Clip > Group).
Activating animation/key framing to any of the effect settings of those effects being assigned to a clip group (in contrast to those effects assigned to any clip instance contained in the the group) will allow to add key frames spanning all clips of the group.
This way it will be possible to easily create, e.g., a zoom effect spanning several clips.
If there are clips in-between those belonging to the group, the group's effects won't be applied to those clips not belonging to the group. However, the effects' parameter values are continued to be calculated in the background.
So this example would be true:
- Available clips:
| a | b | c | d | e |
- Clips grouped into a Clip Group:
| a |   | c |   | e |
- Zoom video effect applied to the group, having two key frames added:
Key frame #1 = beginning of clip | a |
Key frame #2 = end of clip | e |
Zoom value of key frame #1 = 100%
Zoom value of key frame #2 = 400%
--> So this will be the approximated calculated zoom value when the timeline reaches following points in time:
Beginning of clip | a |:     100%
End of clip       | a |:     132%
Beginning of clip | b |: (100%)
End of clip       | b |: (100%)
Beginning of clip | c |:     174%
End of clip       | c |:     230%
Beginning of clip | d |: (100%)
End of clip       | d |: (100%)
Beginning of clip | e |:     303%
End of clip       | e |:     400%
(Unfortunately, this forum doesn't allow me to apply any kind of formatting to the example above. So I can't apply a monospace font or colouring )
When a group gets ungrouped (Menu Clip > Ungroup), effects that had been applied to the group will be assigned to each individual clip of the group. For effect parameters that had key frames/animation activated, key frames will be created at the beginning and end of each of the clips. The previously calculated values will now be inserted at each automatically created key frame to mimic the grouped effect behaviour. This operation then would finalize the Ungroup operation involving clip group effects.
Regards,
Axel Dahmen

You could combine the Next/Previous Edit commands with either the Apply Video Transition shortcut or with a paste command if you had copied the transition you want.
OR... much easier if all you want is a bunch of consistent fade ins/fade outs...
On a single clip, keyframe opacity to create a fade in from the in point of the clip at the duration you like, e.g. 30 frames. Right click Opacity, and select Save Preset; give it a name, e.g. Fade In 30 Frames and set it to Anchor to In Point. Reset the effect and delete the keyframes, and then repeat this to create a fade out. Go to the out point of the clip, set keyframes, and once again, right-click Opacity and Save Preset; this time call it something like Fade Out 30 Frames and set it to Anchor to Out Point.
Now, you can simply select all of your clips in the sequence, and apply these presets by dragging them to the selection. Even though you created two presets, because you can only have one instance of Opacity on a clip, the keyframes from both presets will be added to that single effect. You have to do this with two presets--if you do it with one and use Scale, the keyframes will stretch out or compress to maintain a relative duration instead of an absolute duration.

Posting Feature Requests for others to Copy/Paste

I recently posted a Feature Request I sent to Adobe for another member to copy/paste as his own FR since he liked the suggestion (see the FR below).
After doing so, I got the idea that we could all do this: copy/paste FRs we send to Adobe into threads on this forum to help each other support the idea with similar requests, or even copy/paste the FR as our own. With limited resources and time, there's only so many requests Adobe can implement in every new version. That why it's so important that new features the Premiere Pro team invests their hard work and time on be the tools that would benefit the greatest number of editors. The more people back up certain ideas, the more likely they'll be implemented sooner than later.
There's power in numbers, so how about using this forum to share our best ideas and make it easier for others to add their voice of support? It's great that Adobe provides us with a way to send them feedback, but it's too bad that it's a one-way conversation with very little, if any, dialogue back and forth between the submitter and Adobe. That's why I thought it would be great to bring more of that potential dialogue here, where we can share ideas and support the creation of an ever better Premiere Pro!
If you've never posted a FR or BR (Bug Report) before, you can easily join the effort to make Premiere Pro become all that it can be, here: www.adobe.com/go/wish
Comments? Ideas? Please share!
Here's the FR I pasted in another thread, as an example.
*******Enhancement / FMR*********
Brief title for your desired feature: Drag&Drop Modified clips into Project Window
How would you like the feature to work?
Ability to Drag&Drop clips with effects, motion settings, keyframes and/or markers back into the Project Window from the Timeline for later use.
Why is this feature important to you?
The Project Window is far better than Sequences for storing/organizing modified clips for future use, since it is:
Searchable
Sortable
Viewable in Icon and List views
Full of helpful metadata columns such as 'Video/Audio Usage'
Foolproof in that the original sequence can be deleted without losing any created subclips
Given these advantages, why only allow us to store modified clips in Sequences? Please fix this by allowing users to Drag&Drop clips from the Timeline to the Project Window while preserving all of their modifications (effects, keyframes, motion settings and/or markers).

Comments? Ideas? Please share!
As it has already been discussed in this thread (and duplicated threads are not allowed in Adobe Forums), the aforementioned feature request is mainly based on the false statement that an editor can either store raw clips in the Project panel or modified clip in the timeline. That's false because an editor can nest modified clip right in the timeline and the nested sequence will be automatically stored in the Project panel, turning into a regular reusable asset.
Unfortunately, the OP, as was also outlined in the duplicated thread, carefully avoids any mentioning this ability, which becomes your second nature if you use After Effects (which is unlike FCP is a part of Adobe Suite).
However, since the OP asks for sharing ideas, I do not hesitate to do this once again. Here is the feature request intended to improve the usability of such PrPro assets as 'Sequences' without breaking existing workflow:
*******Managing Sequences*******
It would be nice if managing capabilities for such assets as 'Sequences' were extended with the following features:
- similar live thumbnail view, which was introduced for footages in CS6. A small 'Sequence' badge in the top left corner of the thumbnail would allow to differentiate between sequences and clips;
- enabled metadata and ability to handle them like for any other regular asset;
- ability to remove empty audio or video tracks completely, i.e. get a sequence as an Audio or Video asset only;
- pop-up dialog box on hitting 'Nest' command, which would allow to give meaning name instead of default 'Nested Sequence XXX', contain 'Delete All Empty Tracks' checkbox and a button for advanced dialog for logging metadata right on a brand new asset creation.
These features would improve an ability to exploit sequences as reusable assets and preserve consistent applications behaviour throughout the Suite instead of breaking existing workflow by inventing new FCP style 'subclip with effects' type of asset. See this discussion in PrPro Forum for some more details:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1204107?tstart=0

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