Find clip on Timeline in the Browser

Like in Premiere Pro, you simply right click on a clip in the timeline and get the program to find the clip in the browser, is there a way to do this in FCP?

if you are active in the timeline you highlight a clip and hit the "f" key. This will load the master clip in the viewer. At the top of the viewer it tells you the name of the clip and project it is in.

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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 ?

Can you find out if a clip has been used in a timeline within the browser?

i am using hundreds of clips and i don't want to use one twice - or leave one out. years ago in premiere they let you see USED CLIPS and it showed you how many times it was used and where it was within a timeline. does that feature - or something like it exist in FC?
thanks
mrC

Yep, that'll show dupe clip usage in the timeline, but to see used clips in the browser you have to specifically search for them. With the browser window active, press Cmd-F to bring up the Find window, and change the For: popup to Used Media (or Unused Media) as desired; you can limit the search to specific sequences and/or filter the search by adding multiple specific search criteria ... finally just press the Find All button.

How do I locate a clip in the timeline from the browser

I am using FCE and I know that I can locate a clip from the timeline by using shift F.
I want to check on a clip in the browser and find where it is in the timeline. How do I do that?

Open the clip from the browser into the viewer. Press the F key. If the clip is used in the timeline, the playhead will move to the clip.

Opening the Canvas window and the Timeline from the browser

I am on an Intel 2x2.66 Dual Core using OS 10.4.11 and working in FCP 6.04.
I know this is a stupid question but having been a composer all my life, I am not up to speed on FCP and I seem to be unable to find the answer in my manual.
I dragged a QuickTime movie to the browser window. It is 500x375 in dimension and uses a H.264, AAC codecs. (info I got from the Get Info window).
The video shows up and plays in the Viewer window but I cannot get the Canvas window nor the Timeline to open.
I have tried selecting the sequence from the list in the browser and then control clicking it and looking at the shortcut menu there. The manual says I should choose Open Timeline from this shortcut menu but that is not even a choice I have. I don't mean it is grayed out, I mean there is no Open Timeline choice on the menu.
As an alternate, the manual suggests selecting the sequence and then choosing View > Sequence in Editor. I tried this also. There is no Sequence in Editor choice under the View menu. There is a Clip in Editor choice but when I select that it simply opens the movie in Quicktime.
I am aware that I am probably forgetting something simple or doing something stupid but I cannot figure it out. Help would be much appreciated.
Thomas

the simple fact that is being eluded to here is that without an active sequence in the project (shown in the browser) there is no canvas or timeline. If you delete your sequence from the browser, the timeline and canvas will disappear, and you will have to create a new sequence, then open that sequence by double clicking it, to get those windows back. Canvas and Timeline display sequence content. No sequence, no c/t.

Moving a clip in timeline without the audio overwrite.

is there a way to move a clip in a busy timeline in a way that the audio will not overwrite another audio.
I'm dragging the video to a clear spot on a higher track but the audio part of the clip remains in the same track (which is occupied by another clip).
thanks
arikw

I found how to do.
you drag the video portion of the clip downward pass the bar separating video and audio track . the video will remain in video track 1 and the audio will move to a different track.
arikw

Working with projects and albums in the browser

I have already posted a question about how to find a project or album. If you have TONS of projects and albums how do you find a specific one in the browser? I cannot see any way to sort other than alphabetically and there is no way to search project or album names.
By the same token, and this is my new question, how do you easily display in the viewer all the files in a project? (a project may contain albums with images that are not stored on the root level of that project, so highlighting the project in the browser does not display them). Or similarly, how do you display in the viwer the images contained in several albums? There eseems to be no way to simultaneaously selct albums or projects. You can have several tabs open but not see the images together in the viewer. In fact to make a slide show off all the images in one project you have to create an album and manually put in all the images.
Similarly, there is no way of making a smart album of all the images in a project or determined albums, which would have been a work around for all these issues.....
Am I missing something really obvious????????? It all seems so basic. Even iphoto lets you do these things! HELP, APPLE!!!!!!!!
several Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Hola Francisco,
Aperture is a much more powerful software than iPhoto and it's crucial to understand the way its library works to get the most of its organization capabilities.
Master images can only be placed (physically) inside projects. These are then image containers. An album only has links to images, and this links can go to any project. So even if an album is inside a project it could be displaying images that are not inside that project but somewhere else (if you drag and drop from other project previously).
On the project panel, projects are display in alphabetical order, but you can also use blue folders to organize projects. My project panel is organized as follows:
Project '1. Imports': A project created to automatically recieve all the photos when a card is inserted in my card reader. I use a hot folder with automator for this.
Blue folder '2. Smart Albums': This blue folder has all the smart albums I need to quickly find any image in the library.
Blue folder '3. Work': This folder has all the projects related to my work.
Blue folder '4. Travel': Contains projects of my travel photography divided by country.
Blue folder '5. Portrait': Contains projects of portrait sessions.
Blue folder '6. Social & Events': Contains projects of differents events I shoot.
Project '7. Templates': Contains photoshop templates to create 9 in 1 frames, etcetera.
As you can see I use numbers in front of every name to keep them in the order I want. Then the metadata does the rest, I add keywords to easily find ANY image in seconds, doesn't matter how long I did it.
A Smart album will search inside the whole Library if you create it at 'All images' level, then you can drag it to a folder to organize them if you want.
I'd recommend the book by Ben Long and Orlando Luna, it made me squeeze all the potential of Aperture, way beyond the manual that came with the program.

Drag & drop audio clip from timeline to project window ?

i no longer can drag a clip from timeline to the project window & then breakout the clip to mono by selecting clip - audio options- breakout to mono - now when i drop an audio clip from timeline into the project window it does not show up anywhere in the project window - did an update get rid of this function ? it was much better than having to go back to the unedited original source & start from scratch ...

thanx for your time Jim - i understand that would be the preferred method but that was a quick fix until recently i have noticed that i can no longer do it by just grabbing the edited clip & drop it in project window so that i can modify just that portion of the original files properties - it still functions that way on a friends machine - was just kinda weird that i can't get it to work that way any more …

Beeping sound while playing clip on timeline

Hello.
I try to edit the newly captured clip on timeline, but the beep sound requires me to render the clip first. It has never happened before. Want to know how to solve the problem.
Thanks in advance.
Ying

Ying, please check your sequence settings and compare it to your previous settings that resulted in no render "beeping.".
Dave

I'm trying to reverb an audio clip in my timeline and I can't find the effect tab in the browser to drag to my audio clip to reverb. I can reverb the clip in the viewer but can't it won't drag to the timeline. I'm using FCE

I'm trying to reverb an audio clip in my timeline and I can't find the effect tab in the browser to drag to my audio clip to reverb. I can reverb the clip in the viewer but it won't drag to the timeline. I'm using FCE

You cannot drag the effects themselves to the timeline. You add them to a clip in the Viewer, just as you have done.
If the clip was already in the timeline when you opened it in the Viewer (by double-clicking it in the timeline to open it in the Viewer) and then added the reverb effect, there is nothing further to do, you have added the effect to the clip. You don't drag it back to the timeline.
You only have to drag the clip to the timeline if the clip was not already in the timeline (for example, if you opened the clip from the FCE Browser; or set different In and Out points in a master clip to use a different portion of the master clip in a different location in your timeline).
Depending on the effect you add, you may have to render the timeline after adding the effect. But I don't think reverb requires immediate rendering. One other note, you said you were working with an audio clip ... audio clips need to be AIFF (not MP3 or something else) and preferably 16-bit stereo.

Can I link 2 superimposed clips in the timeline & save it to the browser?

Hi,
I have created a superimposed split screen in my Timeline using two video clips. Can I link these two video clips together and save them in the Browser?
My goal is to be able to load it as one clip in the Viewer.
Thanks,
Humbucker

My timeline has many edited tracks. My browser has many clips but there is >only one item named "sequence." Nothing happens when I click on it.
The Sequence represents what's in the current Timeline, it's already open. If the Timeline/Canvas was not on the screen double clicking the icon would make it appear.
Right click in a blank area in the Browser and select *New Sequence* (make sure it matches the other one) and another Sequence appears.
Double click the new one and it will appear in the Timeline with nothing in it.
Drag your other Sequence onto the Canvas Overlay that say Insert.
You now have a Sequence with one clip that is a composite of all the bits in the original Sequence.
As mentioned, change the names to identify them or you'll end up with a bunch of Untitled 1, Untitled 2 etc. making life difficult.
You can also copy a Sequence and paste it into another Project if you like. Essentially Sequences can be used like clips.
Al

Losing the audio track when moving a clip from the browser to the timeline

Today we were trying to add two clips from the browser in Final Cut Express HD to the timeline that was created yesterday. The problem is, the clips we were adding today are not moving with the audio tracks. All other clips from when we created the movie are fine but the two we added today have no sound. The audio works when viewing the clip in "viewer" but not once it is moved to the timeline. Any thoughts?

Hi(Bonjour)!
Look at the left side of the time line, there is a device (the patch panel) to set the current video and audio target tracks. (little V1 and a1 a2 icons). Swith them to desired tracks to select the target audio tracks (that's where the video and audio-or just one of them-will be inserted in timeline upon editing). There is also a contextual menu (control click) with reset panel command.
Michel Boissonneault

Why clip speed and pitch changes when I drag it from the browser to the timeline ?

In fcpx when I play the clip in the browser it is fine but when I drag and play the same clip in the time line the audio and video clip speed plays slow....and I can hear that weird wobble sound .....why is this happening.....? Kindly help.

1)I have already done that but in that timeline also with 25 fps specified the clips are playing slow ,leave aside the hay wire going clips....
2) when I extract exactly 2 seconds of clip from the browser, almost 48 frames ...the extracted clip in the timeline shows two or three extra frames ...that is may be because of the handles ?or some other issue
3)but when I make a new project/timeline with 25 frames ....and then add clips it works fine....
definately issue is with the framerate but I will have to begin from scratch of 300 files ...so do you think this already made and copy pasted sequence should work fine in the new timeline as you said ....as it is not working....and secondly does quality of video suffer if you bring it down from 25 to 23 frames in that case I will work all over again.......just waiting for your reply ...thank you.

L do not see an orange line in the browser for clips that are in the timeline. What do I do?

How do I get the orange line to show in the brewer for clips that are in the timeline. Mine doesn't show it.

I called Apple and said it is a glitch which caused me not able to see a registration key. They sent my $30 back so I will make another order of Quicktime Pro 7 to get registration key.

Has anyone experienced this problem: I am editing in FCP 7.0.3 on a Mac 10.6.8 - I have a clip in the browser that is full frame and matched the other clips but when I drop it in the time line it becomes a fully zoomed in version of itself

has anyone experienced this problem: I am editing in FCP 7.0.3 on a Mac 10.6.8 - I have a clip in the browser that is full frame and fine and it matches the other clips in my bins but when I drop it into the time line it becomes a fully zoomed in version of itself and I can only see a small portion of the image. What's going on? I've noticed this has happened in the past randomly with other clips and it's driving me cray cray! Any help appreciated greatly and thanks in advance for taking the time

In the FCP Browser, click on the source clip that is showing up sized incorrectly to select it. Once it is selected, type Command + 9 to see the item properties for the clip. Either report those properties here, or take a screen shot of the item properties and post the screen shot here.
Next, click anywhere in your sequence timeline and then type Command + 0 {zero} to see your sequence settings. Either report those settings or take a screen shot of the sequence settings and post that screen shot here.
MtD

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