Making an Independent Clip

I am working with still images and want to take an indivudual clip and convert it into a quicktime so that I can use the TimeReMap and have control over timing and ease in/ease out.
When I click on the clip my "Make Independent Clip" is greyed out. I have seen this done but am not getting it. I could make a new project with this one clip in it and make a QT.
Any suggestions?
~Mark

Okay, then you can do what I suggested in my previous post.
You can either take that clip and put it in a separate sequence to export it out and bring it back in (be sure to use "Current Settings" so you don't adjust the quality with compression), OR you can just set an IN at the beginning of the clip on your timeline (cmd + I) and an OUT an the end (cmd + O) and export it right from there (FCP wil only export whatever is between your In and Out point).
Make sure it's fully rendered before you export it.
Figure that'll work alright for you?

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Connect Independent Clips (Play All)

Hello,
I am new to DVD Studio -- have a fairly simple question I think:
I am making a DVD that will contain a number of short vignettes/films. Each film is independent of the other but I would like a "Play All" option so a viewer can easily watch one after the other after the other.
I know I can accomplish this by compressing all the clips into one big movie, making chapters, and having the chapters selected return to the main menu, but I don't want to have to put all the clips into a single mpeg file (I would rather do subtitles and everything independtly on a clip by clip basis as I work on them).
So, is there an easy way to make all the independent clips play back to back ? Is that the "story" feature ? I played around with it but couldn't figure it out.
Thanks,
Damon

Stories would be the easiest approach and the easiest way to do the stories would be to place them all on one track with chapter markers between each clip
The Play All Story would include all Chapter Markers
If you want just to play a section you add just the marker to the section
For instance if there are 3 clips, with Markers 1,2,3 - PLay All Story would have markers 1,2,3 - Just section 1 would have just marker 1, etc.
http://dvdstepbystep.com/passelections.php
http://dvdstepbystep.com/stories_details.php
There are also other approaches, for instance you can make two stories for each seperate track, so track 1, 2 & 3 would each have a Play All Story and a Play Sol story (each would be identical with one marker, the difference being the end jumps for the stories would be either set to the next track you want to play (Play All) or return to the Menu (Play Solo)
And the last way would be scripting.
Button action would be to a script
mov GRPM (whichever you want) SPRM 8//this sets the GRPM to the button that was pressed. Buttons are in increments of 1024 so easier to divide by 1024 to keep track
div GPRM (whatever), 1024 //makes it 1-4
//assumes button 1 is play track 1, button 2 is play track 2, button 3 is play track 3, button 4 is play all
Jump Track 1 if GPRM = 1
Jump Track 2 if GRPM = 2
Jump Track 3 if GPRM = 3
Jump Track 1 if GPRM = 4 //both selections 1 and 4 will go to track 1 to start
Then the end jumps for each track (could be rolled into one script but you can make a few may be easier to follow)
So for track 1
JUMP Menu, if GPRM = 1 //(play all was not selected so return to menu)
Jump Track 2
So for track 2
JUMP Menu, if GPRM = 3 //(play all was not selected so return to menu)
Jump Track 3
Track 3 will always return to menu since it is last in either event, so just set end jump

Undo "Make Independent Clips" ?? HELP!

Well, I had thought I made some subclips, but instead of clips they were sequences. Not sure how that happened - I did command U, but anyway..
When I was trying to figure out why that happened, I went to "Modify -> Made Independent Clips" thinking maybe that was the culprit.
I realized that wasn't it, and made my subclips from the sub-sequences that were there. So now I have all these subclips (and I deleted all the sub-sequences).
However, I go to look at the subclips and they are all distorted. In the viewer it says that they are scaled up to 225, I don't know why that would happen.. And in the Canvas they are all pixely and the resolution is messed up. When I scale them down to 100, the video is the size of a thumbnail.
I have NO idea what happened, because I'm almost positive that the only thing I did was click "Make independent clips" and then create the subclips.
Can anyone help me fix this?? I wish final cut express had an undo history..

I know FCE has an "undo", every program in existence does. I was referring to an undo history, ie. photoshop, which will tell you what each undo actually undoes.
I also know what "make subclip" does. What I didn't realize was that if you try to make a subclip using cmd-u with in & out points in the timeline it does NOT create a subclip, but in fact creates a sub-sequence. To make the subclip you have to be making the in & out points in the viewer, not the canvas.
When I realized that was what I had done, I created subclips from those sub-sequences, and then deleted the sub-sequences. I had also selected "Make independent clips".
I don't know how or why the frame settings of my clips got changed and scaled, because I obviously would not have scaled them. Maybe it is some quirky setting that is going on, or maybe it has something to do with my making subclips from the sub-sequences that I then deleted. I have no idea.
Thanks for trying to help, but sounds like we're both lost on this. I have 4 sequences in this project so I don't want to risk making anything worse. In addition to the 4 sequences, I have 4 original source files that are each 1 hour long. From those, I made many subclips so I could easily find footage I was looking for. If I now go back and select "Remove Subclip Limits" will this effect every subclip in my project?? I don't know if I can risk that.
I will have to just go back to the original source clip and create new subclips from that, deleting the subclips that became skewed.
Thanks anyway.
Vanessa

How can I stop iMovie from making thumbnails of clips from past projects when opening the program to digitize new clips for new project. i have looked in the preferences and couldn't figure out what to disable.

How can I stop iMovie from making thumbnails of clips from past projects when first opening the program to digitize new clips for a new project. It takes forever for it and is very annoying. I have looked in the preferences and couldn't figure out what would disable this problem.

You do not need to move your cursor much when pressing the mouse button to cause the tab to tear-off/tear-away into a new tab. No "sensitivity" setting that I am aware of. The tab in the new window can be dragged back to the original window.
To disable the feature, install this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bug489729-disable-detach-and-t/
*Read the information on the above page
*Set options for the add-on: Add-ons > Extensions, click Options next to the specific Extension (the 2 options are defined/explained in the above page).
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Subclips of Independent Clip all have the SAME audio

I have a bunch of DV streams I want to edit in FCP, but I discovered that the audio is out of sync in most of them. Each stream has multiple shots in it, each of which I want to make into a subclip. Here's how I approached the problem:
1. I gave the out-of-sync DV stream a reel name in the Browser.
2. I opened the clip in the Viewer, set In and Out points to the extremes, and dragged it into the timeline.
3. I unlinked the video and audio, shifted the video to get it in sync, cropped the ends of the video and audio to start and end at the same time, and relinked the video with the audio.
4. I selected Make Independent Clip from the context menu.
5. I dragged the synced clip back into the Browser and changed its name.
6. I opened the new clip in the Viewer, selected the individual shots with In and Out points, and made each into a subclip.
For each clip, the first subclip I created in this way worked perfectly, but for some reason the subsequent subclips all have the same audio as the first subclip. What am I doing wrong?
~ Joel

I had the sync problem when capturing DV footage until I found and deleted the FC preferences file. I found this worked for several FC problems so I found a utility that saves the prefs before a problem starts. Then you can just replace the corrupted prefs file with the saved good one and you're fixed. I posted this problem to the forum and never found an answer as to why the capture sync gets hosed so I went with what works. I would work on why the captured footage is out of sync in the first place as described above.
Sorry but I do not have an answer for your sub-clip problem, just questions. Did you capture your DV tape as one individual file? Is the audio recorded on tape 48k and captured as 48k? I know I used to do the same thing as you to correct the offset... unlink the video & audio and bump the audio track until the sync was corrected. As long as I edited the clips on the timeline, everything stayed in sync and I just worked around the problem. For me, the prefs file was the answer.

Making a separate clip from a master clip...

Hi, If I want to separate and rename clips from an original master clip and place them in separate folders, how do I do this without affecting the original master clip?
Do I need to take the cllps into the timeline, or is there a more time effective way of doing this in the viewer?
When I have tried renaming before it seems to rename all the clips including the master by the same name...
What am i doing wrong?
Thanks.

Thanks Caleb.
What I am wondering is do I need to make copy the master each time I want to make an independant clip?
Say I want to use the master to further log clips from that master clip. Do I need to duplicate the master each time?
Will the in and out points always refer to the entire clip in the viewer, or can I make the clip independent to the point that it no longer refers to the master in terms of duration?
I mean, the master clip was 3minutes, and I want 5 seconds from the clip, is there a way to open the new clip in the viewer and have the time line only represent 5 seconds total, rather than 5 seconds selected from 3 minutes?
If not, how do I zoom in on clips I am trimming in the viewer? If the clip is really long, I find it hard to cut precislely within a very short clip...
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Organization approach re: capture, logging, independent clips

I'm learning FCE to edit my showreel from DVcam source tapes via a deck with device control. The media sources are existing montages, individual commercials and VFX shots/scenes. Ultimately, the edited montages or exerpts will become distinct chapters of a DVD, some clips or sequences showing up in different montages (ultimately DVD chapters).
Based on what I read in FCE Help and Lisa Brenneis' manual, I'm beginning to think I should use either "capture now" or "capture project" to import, then convert all to independent clips and subdivide/rename & log after the fact. (I'd back up on DVD-ROM.) Two reasons this seems to be the way to go...
1.) The capture session is at a facility and I need to minimize time spent there in capture. And 2.) The master/affiliate clip relationship seems to bring a level of complication I'm not sure I'm ready to handle yet.
I'd appreciate any advice, given the nature of the source media and eventual use, regarding the best capture method and any drawbacks to working with independent clips. Thank you.
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Changing the name of a master clip after the capture is sort of a no no in FCP. There's other columns for information if you need to add it to the clip.
You can rename subclips all you want but not master clips, because FCP uses this captured QT media file name for reconnection (must match name of clip in browser if it's a master clip).
You can reimport all the master clips in a flash... would that help?
If you select a sequence, with the clips, it will still reconnect BTW.
Jerry

Capture Now - Making New Master Clips ???

Now i really have a strange thing going on... I am using Capture Now to start an edit session with HDV Footage and it is making NEW Master Clips when there is a stopdown/startup recording on the tape... (a change in setup for a shot)...
I have gone in the User Settings and unclicked all of the stuff dealing with dropframe or timecode breaks with no luck...
Any Help ???
-Brian

It will make life harder to keep the bin's organized... because i am going to have to view each clip separately -vs- scanning one clip that has all of my b-roll or my uppers / interviews to find the story...
yea i did restart the whole computer and had to reset the capture preferences and such...
I do know about the grief that is associated with timecode breaks in the middle of a shot... dealt with stuff like that in school 7 years ago...
I do appreciate the help...thanks again...

Save independent clips from main capture

Hello there,
I have just captured all of my video with Final Cut Pro, but now I would like to go through the material and select the "best off". I would like to create independent clips, that I can use later on for my project, which will allow me to get reed of garbage. How can I save independent clips, from my main 2 hour captured file?
Thank you

I am able to export it by setting my cursor at the end and beggining of the clip, selecting the clip, to then export it as a Quick Time Movie, on a folder so I can use it later on.
Bad idea. Doing this you lose all vital clip information, including source timecode and reel name. If you lost your media drives (not uncommon) then re-building the cut would be VERY time consuming...if you could even do it. With reel number and timecode, simply recapturing the footage would rebuild the cut, if you kept the project file.
What you should do is subclip your captured file, make those subclips independent clips, then either use the MM to copy them as separate files, or manage them as separate clips so that you can recapture them properly.
Shane

Correct way to create a small independent clip from a larger clip

In a recent post:
Tara Easley replied to: How to export a short clip from within a larger scene?
With:
"After you make your in and out points, highlight the one minute segment and go to Modify. Then click "Make Independent Clip". It should save just the 1 minute clip in your bins section. You will need to change it's name, but that should work."
My question is whether this process will make an exact "stand alone file" with duplicate quality as the original clip or is there another method that must be used to maintain the original quality of the original clip and get a new independent file?
TIA,
Ken

MartinR wrote:File > Export > QuickTime Movie.
Okay, that is as I thought. FCE cannot help me 'chop' out a portion of the original file as it came from the camera (because it is in the wrong codec to work in FCE.)
Would Final Cut Pro be able to work with more file formats? Or does it also need to have cuts converted to AIC?
I think, because I am a beginner, that I am barking up the wrong tree about editing original footage since it really would also have to be converted to AIC before it would be useable in FCE. I"ll just be sure to save all of my original files from the camera and then 'crop out' what I need as separate files for archive by the method you named above.
Thank You,
Ken

Make Independent Clip is greyed out

With many of my clips, Make Independent Clip is greyed out, and I can't figure out why. Please help, and thank you!

select a clip in the timeline or the browser and hit command-9 and tell us what codec (also called compressor) , frame rate etc If you're material is not in a fcp friendly format, that may be the problem. I also know that you can only use this command in certain circumstances. Had to do it a week or so ago and it took a little fooling til the option was available.

Independent clips

Hi everyone. How do you make independent clips so that they stay permanent in the sequence without re-rendering/ asking for the sources when you move or open the project?

Don't think so, although I spent a bunch of time rearranging media and graphic files yesterday (keeping them on the same drive, but moving around in folders) and when I reopened the project, fcp had maintained the connection between the clips and the media (which surprised me).
First, fcp uses the term "independent" in a different way so perhaps you might avoid using this term.
At the moment, this is the way fcp works. Fooling with elements of an ongoing fcp project at the finder level is dangerous if you don't know what you're doing (and sometimes even if you do) and is not recommended.
Now occasionally there can be a problem and fcp will lose the "connection" with some of the media when it shouldn't (when you haven't moved or renamed it at the finder level). If there is happening to you, post back with more specifics and will try and troubleshoot.
You can always export a selfcontained quicktime with item settings of clips or sequences which you can then import back into fcp. Perhaps this method will work for you.
Also, nesting material can sometimes help you avoid excessive rerendering.
Hope this is of some help.

Making a sound clip sync with rest of movie.

So I solved this problem and realized I posted it under AS3 and it should have been here. So I figured it may help somone. All I did was change the setting to "Stream" under the properties panel for each sound clip!
Making sound sync with my controls
Hello all,
This is one of my first flash movies so bear with my inexperience!
I've made a slide show with three pieces of audio that are set up to play with certain images. So you can imagine when the video is paused but the sound continues playing everything gets a bit messed up.
I have each audio on a different layer and none of them overlap, just fade in/out to one another.
EDIT: Almost forgot, so how can I get the audio to stop/play along with the rest of the flash file when play/pause is clicked on. And can I skip forword/backward 15frames in the audio clip as I am doing with the images?
Here is the AS3 for the back button (gtmf) and foreword button (gtpf)
stop();
mc_content.stop();
gtmf.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, gtmfs);
function gtmfs(event:MouseEvent) :void {
gotoAndStop(this.currentFrame-15)
mc_content.gotoAndStop(this.currentFrame-15)
pp.gotoAndStop(1);
gtpf.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, gtpfs);
function gtpfs(event:MouseEvent) :void {
gotoAndStop(this.currentFrame+15)
mc_content.gotoAndStop(this.currentFrame+15)
pp.gotoAndStop(1);
The play/pause button is a movieclip symbol (pp) with two frames, each with their own AS3.
Play button (gogo)
stop();
gogo.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, goplaying);
function goplaying(event:MouseEvent) :void {
MovieClip(root).play();
MovieClip(root).mc_content.play();
gotoAndStop(2);
Pause button (halthalt)
stop();
halthalt.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, haltplaying);
function haltplaying(event:MouseEvent) :void {
MovieClip(root).stop();
MovieClip(root).mc_content.stop();
gotoAndStop(1);

Yep, ain't that the truth....
Along with the randomness of the HTML elements in general, the relationship between the Flash and HTML are similarly 'independent'.
I was just wondering if there were some little tricks or methods used by web guys these days, as it seems like clever new techniques or new capabilities in CSS or Flash pop up from time to time.
Very odd, though... The interface graphics are very light, yet sometimes the page takes a few seconds to show, and the Flash appears right away (the opposite of what I'd normally expect, when things 'go wrong').
I still don't get why the SWF shows up (when the rest of the table doesn't), if the rule is true that a table won't show up unless all the content is available.
Is there some sort of weird exception if the content of a cell is Flash?

Making a movie clip play beyond keyframe

Hi,
I have a movie clip that is about 30 frames long. I've placed an instance of it on the main timeline and it follows a motion path. My motion path ends after about 20 frames. At this time, I've inserted a keyframe which is preventing my movie clip from playing the remaining 10 frames.
I tried adding an ActionScript layer where the last keyframe is and it reads:
instance.gotoAndPlay (20)
Doesn't seem to work. Just a note that this is around frame 292 of the main timeline. Also note, a new keyframe begins on another layer with a different movie clip.
Any ideas? Much appreciated.

I think I may understand now, and your first approach to solving it should work. What you need to be sure to do is to assign the instance name at every keyframe. If you did not name it in its first frame of the main timeline, it will inherit that lack of a name in the keyframe at the end of the tween, regardless of your assigning it there... just a quirk of Flash.
Another option, if this is a straight line tween of the object on the main timeline is to use actionscript to animate it rather than a timeline tween.

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Hello, Suzq13.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
I understand that you are unable to import a video taken with your iPad. Try importing this video via Image Capture as an alternative. Depending on the size, you may also be able email this video to yourself. Here is some information the will help you with this process.
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