Fit to fill with multiple clips

Created a short stop frame animation sequence, but now I want to use "fit to fill" to have it work with the audio. When I try to use "fit to fill" I get invalid edit. So then I tried copying the sequence, putting in the timeline and used shiftZ. Still not working. Any suggestions?

Fit To Fill is a 4 point edit. This means that you must have an In & Out point set on your timeline, as well as an In & Out Point set on your source clip.

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Or how do I make the single frame subclips stretch to 3 second length clips

Ok I time remapped all 93 clips to 3 seconds and then fit to fill worked like a charm... anyway to time remap multiple clips at the same time?

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Same answer as to your other post:
Doubtful. Something else is going on.
Most likely, that's not what you're seeing.
What appear to be duplicate files and folders are actually "multi-links" (sort of like fancy aliases) that look like multiple copies of the same things.
To find out what's really going on, download the Time Machine Buddy widget from: http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/status/timemachinebuddy.html. It shows the messages from your logs for one TM backup run at a time, in a small window. The somewhat-cryptic messages will show roughly how much was copied on each backup.
Also download the TimeTracker app, from www.charlessoft.com.
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Good time of day everyone. I have beed working on the project that involves a lot of multicam syncing and editing.
At first I was very inspired with Premiere CC new multicam audio sync feature. However, I suddenly realized that there is no way to sync multiple clips from different cameras (angles, bins, etc.) the way PluralEyes does it. Only single-clip angles to a given audiom or multiple clips from one bin to audio.
So please, correct me if I'm wrong. Is there a way to sync angles with multple clips in Preliere CC?

Hi Sasha_Baych,
Check out this help article: http://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/create-multi-camera-source-sequence.html
You can place all the angles into on bin, and then select the bin.
Right-click (Windows), or Ctrl-click (Mac OS) and choose > Create Multicamera Source Sequence
In the Create Multicamera Source Sequence dialog box, click "Audio."
You are now set up with angles synched by audio, similar to the way you'd expect with PluralEyes.
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Dealing with multiple clips

I have a timeline with about 300 clips all cut of of a single 2 hour sequence. If I create a new folder in the project window and drag the clips into the folder they all revert to the original clip and there is no easily apparent way to covert all of them into subclips without doing it manually to each clip. I could be wrong but I believe that in FCP 7 you could just drag a clip to the project window (or whatever it was called) and it was a self contained clip. Any easy way to do this in PPro or am I going to have to manually select each clip and create a subclip?
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Then please don't help by just writing stuff that has no relevance or you don't understand what is being attempted - that is not help! It would seem that the simple answer is that there there is no way to drag a clip from the timeline into a bin in the project window. Making 300 manual edits to a clip in the source window would be extremely time consuming and totally impractical. Making subclips manually would be much quicker. That is all that had to be said.
I gave you a full and complete answer with complete understanding of your issue in my post #8
Everything was relevant.
Making subclips manually would be much quicker.
You were given a superior professional way to make subclips to do exactly that (manually) in the first place... including advice that using the Razor Tool was slow and inefficient by comparison.
Doubt you even tried the advice.Sorry it was not what you wanted to hear.
Also sorry to hear you cant make the program work-around ,...function as the others have confirmed does.
Wonder what the problem is? Let us know when you find out.

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I assume that your video was converted to AIC for editing in FCE ?
With all FCE projects destined for iDVD the advice is the same.
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I have burned the project 5 times = same result.
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Could not find the screen-caps. If they are JPEG or PNG, just use the little "camera" icon in the editing page to "attach" them, or post a URL for others to view them from a server. This ARTICLE will give you some tips on screen-caps.
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Now, what are the End Actions for each Timeline? If I understand what you want, the End Action for each Timeline should be to the next, and for the final Timeline, back to the beginning of Timeline 1. That will create the "looping."
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Keith,
Great news. What many do not take into account is that Encore is ONLY an authoring program and not an NLE. That is the role of PrPro. One MUST feed Encore the correct material, as it will not alter the material, beyond Transcoding for DVD/BD.
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how can I edit multiple clips with different frame rates on the same timeline

You do not want to edit material from different frame rates on one timeline. You CAN do this, but it is a very bad idea - and this is why.
Once you establish the sequence frame rate - lets say it is PAL material at 25fps, any material that you drop into the sequence other than 25 fps will have to be changed to play at 25 fps. If the material you add is NTSC (29.97), FCP will DROP 5 frames per sec to bring the frame rate down to 25 fps. Which 5 get thrown away? Every 6th one. This yields a funky cadence that becomes even more complex as as there are also interlaced fields (DV/NTSC is an interlaced format). Oh, and by the way, the image sizes are different as well. DV/PAL has 576 lines of resolution and DV/NTSC has 480. FCP has to scale up the NTSC to fit the PAL frame.
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With some further investigation, the transitions have nothing to do with my problem. In my case there was a tiny “Black gap slug” within the group that was preventing me from being able set it on top of another group of clips or gap someplace. But even with the gap removed… I can move the clips on top of another group but the transitions stay behind on the primary (Magnetic)
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I have identical real time TC for all 3 cameras, and two cams are continually recording. the third is roaming.
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