Rearranging Clips

I'm using Premiere 9 and I'm struggling to find an efficient way to rearrange clips. It seems like in both the scene view and timeline view if you have MANY (I have about 100) clips you can't see all the clips a once. I don't want to scroll (and scroll and scroll) left and right. Is there anyway to show multiple rows (in either timeline or scene)? I don't need to see the monitor pane or the organize pane. Ideally, I like to see the entire work area filled with MULTIPLE rows of the screen view.

Press the \ key (above the Enter key on your keyboard) to see your entire project once.
Although, if you've got a hundred clips on your timeline, you're probably not going to be able to see the individual clips very clearly.

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Apologies if this is posted multiple times - I'm new here and thought I posted but can't find it now
Can I rearrange clips using Icon View in the Media window? I thought I had read about doing it this way, but it doesn't seem to allow clips to be moved using the icons. (It works in list view but not icon view) Am I overlooking something or just doesn't work that way?
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I've been editing movies for decades (and shooting them too), have been doing digital video editing for at least a decade, and was even Director of Photography on an Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Award nominated film, many, many years ago. I own many of his books, and rely on them often. Cannot make a stronger rec. Yeah, "that guy" knows his "stuff."
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I thought the purpose of the timeline at the bottom of the iMovie window was to be able to rearrange imported clips. When I option-click a clip to select the whole thing and then try to drag it to a different spot, I see a translucent filmstrip icon where I'm dragging, but when I relaease the mouse button, it pops back to where it was and nothing happens. (BTW, I'm in the timeline mode where it wraps the clips around from one row to the next, rather than showing one long scrolling timeline). How do I do this?

As you drag the clip along the timeline over the other clips they should slide out of the way and you drop the clip when the gap appears where you want the clip to go.

Question about rearranging clips in the storyline

I hope I can explain my question clearly: I have a storyline with multiple connected clips. I want to add a generator under a clip so that I have a black background. In other words (and I don't know the propery terminology), I want to put a generator in and then take what is now the "main" clip and the clips connected to it and make all of them connected clips on top of the generator. But, when I try to do this by dragging the clips around, I can't do it. The main clip and the clips connected to it that I'm dragging around just end up going on the left or right side of the generator clip.
How can I do this? Is it possible? I noticed that if I delete all of the connected clips from the main clip, I can move the main clip above the generator clip and have it become a connected clip. But that presents a problem because I need all of the clips, and I've already gone to the trouble of syncing them.
I also noticed that I can take the main clip and its connected clips and turn them into a compound clip and then connect it, but that complicates the editing for me.
Thank you for any advice.

Well, as far as why I want a black generator, I'm using a split screen effect and I want to put some titles (text) on 1/2 or 1/3 of the screen. Maybe I don't need a generator to do that. I'm still learning all of this. I'm sure that if someone like you (someone with your experience) sat down and watched what I'm doing to achieve what I want, you'd have a million tips on how to do it better. But I guess that's stuff I'll just have to pick up as I go along.
I didn't know it was possible to put clips under the primary. That certainly helps.

Rearranging clips in i movie

Is there any way of arranging your clips automatically so the go back in order after you have shuffleed them around?
Dan

I can't view your .mp4 videos, but the "Julius Crashing" plays OK. (..My son shot something similar in South Africa ..another fellow with a hover-mower on his back..)
"Editing"? ..What editing? ..It's just jump-cuts ..and the final edit cuts off the sound of the hover-mower too: one moment it's buzzing full pelt, then the video cuts to a different shot, and there's just sweet meadow silence. Is that really "editing".
Maybe what you want to ask is "How do I blend one shot into another without sudden jerks in picture and sound, which might be off-putting to people watching?"
So when he's hit the ground, halfway through the movie, I'd use a suitable "transition" to change to the shot of people surrounding him. There's not much of a selection which comes with the 'bare' iMovie HD (..I've got a selection which I've bought and downloaded from Slick/GeeThree..) so I'd suggest that the simplest and least draw-attention-to-itself-ish is a simple ..and quick, because we're watching action here.. Cross Dissolve.
Then for the next cut (..where the man with the trousers gets in the way of the camera..) another, slightly slower, Cross Dissolve.
Then, in place of the final straight cut, 'Extract' the audio from that next-to-last shot of the pilot undoing his helmet, so that you can slowly fade that audio down (..quite separately from any cut or video transition..) and then use another Cross Dissolve to the people around him.
A slowish audio fade lets the audience 'calm down' after the fright of the crash, and lets our heartbeat slow down for the final standing 'static' shot.
Sorry I can't comment on the others ..ahh: just Saved the linked file for number three, changed its suffix to be just .mp4 and now I can view it:
I like the shot from the moving vehicle, with the hover-mower flying behind (..wouldn't it have been nice to put a camera ON the hover-mower, so that you had some shots from the air?..) but all your cutting is still just straight cuts. The thing which provides some continuity between the shots, to 'smoo-oo-ooth' the transition between them, or to paste them together, is someone else's music (..and they don't get any credit.)
Like Dan's shots of helicopters, the sky's perfectly exposed, but the flyers are dark; too dark to see their faces. You really needed to have pointed the camera at a flyer, zoomed in, then set the camcorder's manual exposure to that setting, so then ..even if the sky came out a bit bleached.. you'd be able to see the people, their kites, the machines, etc, properly. Never just leave the exposure on "automatic" when you're going to have lots of sky in the picture! ..Everything else will come out too dark!
If you look for and download some other transitions, you could do with a "spin around" or "360-degree Twirl" or some such, which would go with those shots of flyers, especially with that kind of insistent music: spin one shot into another from time to time!
Or you could do a similar thing with a very fast "Twirl" that comes with iMovie. Then select all three clips: the part before the Twirl, the applied Twirl transition, and the part after the Twirl, choose File and Export, choose QuickTime and 'Full Quality' and tick the box 'Share selected clips only' and give that chunk a new name, such as "Twirl".
Then use File and Import, and import that same "Twirl" (..it'll have the suffix .dv..) back into iMovie. Then, back in the Timeline, delete the original Twirl transition which you applied between the two clips, and drag the two original clips to the Clips Pane on the side. Drag into the Timeline, in their place, the newly-imported "Twirl" sequence, which includes the transition.
You can now cut that sequence - complete with the Twirl transition - in the middle, after the 1st part has Twirled out to black. [..You couldn't cut the original transition; you can only cut it after it's been "baked" into a solid piece along with its intro and outro halves ..hence the Exporting and reimporting..]
Having cut it, Save everything. Now chop equal amounts off the end of the first half - as the picture's twirling away into the distance - and off the start of the second half - where it's twirling In from the distance. Drag those offcuts to the Clips Pane.
Now apply a short Cross Dissolve between those two remaining halves. That superimposes some of the Twirl OUT onto the Twirl IN, making a snappier transition between the clips, and in keeping with the feeling, or theme, of people whizzing about in the sky at mad angles.
[..I haven't watched the first one, as it's time to go out now (..to TollWood, if Karsten's lurking!)..]

Rearranging clips in Event

When I import new video clips into my Event that I have named May 2013, the clips are not put in order. Sometimes it seems like they are randomly put in the Event section.
How can I have my videos put in chronological order like iPhoto puts my pictures in order? I know about "adjust time and date" under File, but that is a hassle to do for every clip. Can I just drag a clip into a different place with the other clips?

I import pictures and video with my Canon camera software. And then I import them into iPhoto and iMovie.
iPhoto seems to have no problem, it reads the camera's time stamp and arranges the pictures in order, but not iMovie? It seems the clips are added at the end in the Events. When you import a clip, is when it adds it at the end no matter the date. Maybe it's because of how I import through my Canon software first?
The problem is when I import several clips from a day or a few days, they are not put in chronological order. They are put in order of when you import the clips.

Rearranging clips in the timeline

Sorry, I am new a FCP.
If I have several clips in the timeline (e.g. 10 clips) and I need clip $7 & 9 to be in between clip #3 and 4 how do I move them? I want to be able to place them between clip number 3 and have everything else move forward in the timeline.
Thank you!

Click and start dragging a clip to it's new position with snapping turned on (it's the button in the top right of the timeline window that doesn't look like a figure 8... which also should be turned on if you're taking sync sound with it.
Before you let go though and drop it in the new position, hold down the option key and you'll see the little arrow that your cursor has become change to a curved arrow. With snapping on you'll snap to each edit point, and when this clip is between the clips you want it to be in, simply let go of the mouse button.
Jerry

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HI - I'm working on a vacation video and I have 100+ clips in a project at least half the clips have bad time stamps ( ugh ) everything now out of order...is there a way I can reorder the clips manually to get everything cronilogical to contunie the project? Thanks

Jerry,
Yes, if you select a clip in an event and select Modify - Adjust Clip Date and Time you get a window where you can change this information. If you have View - Sort by Date selected for the event, the clips will then appear in chronological order according to the date-times you have given them.
Geoff.

Making Music Videos - rearranging clips

Hi everyone, I'm new to the forums, so I hope you'll be patient if I don't show the proper netiquette!
I'm trying to make a music video with my iMovie (version 4.0.1), so obviously the timing of the clips with the music is very important. The problem is this: I have two clips (Clip 1 and Clip 2), either in the timeline or clip viewer, and I want to place Clip 2 BEFORE Clip 1. But I've already matched Clip 1 up to the music that I want, so I don't want its position to change. But iMovie doesn't seem to want to let me do that - whenever Clip 2 is put before Clip 1, it pushes Clip 1 farther down the timeline and screws up the musical timing.
I've tried everything I can think of: copy-and-paste has the same effect, using the clip viewer instead of the timeline will still "push aside" one of the already-set-clips on either side of the black placeholder, and pinning (locking) the audio only works with one video clip.
I'm probably missing something very obvious - but if someone would help and point that out, I'd be very grateful. Or let me know if iMovie simply doesn't have this capability so I can look into buying some new software.
Thank you,
LilRicki
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

welcome LilRicki to the  boards ....
... I'm afraid, that is a little beyond the skills of iM...
imagine the timeline made of LEGObricks... you can not place a 8pin brick in a 4pin hole, without pushing other bricks aside...
iM is a consumer toyol ... concepted for simplicity..
iM handles clips differently then professional edit tools... FinalCut Express/Pro allows to place clips in any "hole" in the timeline - too much material "vanishes under" the other, fixed clip...
painstaking workaround:
before inserting the clip, "measure" the length (switch to clip view, there's a "black" clip, showing you the precise length), insert clip, then shorten it to desired timing....

How can I select multiple clips in the event browser?

I can't seem to figure out how to do something that should be pretty simple. I want to select multiple clips in the event browser that aren't next to each other. Right now it's only letting me select the two clips with every other clip in between. Is there a keyboard function that will allow me to deselect the clips in between while leaving the two on the outside selected? In Apple's finder you can do this with files by holding down shift-command while clicking on the ones you want. Or is there away to rearrange clips in the event browswer?
I'd like to be able to create a multicam clip, but there is always going to be other media in between the clips I want to combine, so how can I select only the clips I want?
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Trimming multiple clips

I have a project of an already edited tv program with various cameras and only one audio source. one of the cameras is 2 frames out of sync so if I select all this clips named BIA, as it's Bia's camera, and move these clips 2 frames back I will have an overlap at the beginnig of each of BIA's clips and a gap at the end of Bia's clips. is there a more inteligent way to resolve my problem then rearranging clip by clip?
thank you

Yeah, if you have handles this should work:
Select the clips that are out of sync. You might want to try to do a Command-F with the Timeline active, input BIA, then select Find All which should highlight all the clips that need adjusting.
With all the clips selected, press S to activate the Slip tool
With your keyboard type -2 then hit Return. The affected clips should be slipped two frames forward.
Let us know if this doesn't work. Or if you issue goes beyond simply a sync issue...

Cannot arrange clips

First time posting here, since I could not find the answer in the manual (I usually use FCP but waiting for a Binary version - first time using iMovie HD)...
I imported a bunch of clips and they went straight into the timeline (bottom panel) when I thought they'd go into the Clip panel (right-side of interface).
I am now trying to move / rearrange the clips in the timeline but they are not budging. If I try to drag and drop them (even if I use cut and paste) the clip I select just vanishes...
What should I do now?

The timeline at the bottom of the iMovie window has two modes: Clip View mode and Timeline View mode. Click one of the small icons above the left end of the timeline to pick one.
When arranging clips, it's usually best to use Clip View mode. It lets you select the clip(s) you want to move and drag them. Other clips move over to accept the clips.
When trimming clips or adjusting audio, use Timeline View mode.
Rearranging clips in Timeline View mode is possible too, but trickier, for most mouse actions there are for other kinds of editing. For iMovie to understand you want to move the clip, drag it up above the timeline, then left or right. As you drag other clips will move over.
While iMovie is quite simple to use once you see how it works, the user interface aren't particularly intuitive. Watching the iMovie on-line Tutorial helps discover how things work.
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/imovie/
If none of that helps, it may be that there's a more fundamental problem. iMovie requires that the disk the project resides on use the Mac OS Extended disk format. If it's not that format, iMovie can't save edits to disk, sometimes causing behaviors as you describe.
Karl

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I'm sure there is a very simple fix to this problem, but I can't figure it out. I've edited numerous videos in fcp and was about halfway through one when the right arrow stopped showing up when I wanted to move clips around that were already in the timeline. Only the down arrow shows up when I drag a clip to a different point in the timeline so it overwrites my other footage instead of moving it over. I've tried cutting and pasting, but that also overwrites the footage. Please help! Thanks!

sorry Jim, gotta disagree with you on this. Rearranging clips IN the timeline (not editing from the viewer or browser) is a very basic and useful tool in fcp. Learn to use it and your editing speed will increase.

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Hi, anyone experienced the following:
When double clicking on a nested sequence in the timeline to edit that sequence, any edits or changes you make to that sequence do not update back in the parent timeline. For instance if you cut a clip out or rearrange clips in the nested sequence then go back to the parent timeline you see the sequence as it was before you made those changes. Then go back to the nested sequence timeline and see all your edits/changes have been lost!!
The only workaround I see is to remove the nested sequence from the parent timeline, make your edits/changes then drop the sequence back into the parent timeline.
Am I missing something? I thought it would be a case of the nested sequence auto-updating itself in the parent timelline after any changes made, as for example in after effects.
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Hello Chris...
Did your nested sequence need rendering when you created it? If so, the problem is caused by FCP referencing the origonal render files, which themselves act as little QT clips.
After you have made your changes in the 'open' nested sequence, back in your main sequence, you need to force the nested seq to render again. You can do this by quickly moving the opacity overlay line up and down, or disabling - re-anabling the clip. The changes will now be recognised.
J

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Hi lyndafromkingston,
I see that you would like more information about editing files in QuickTime. Here is an article for you that can give you some steps to help you accomplish this:
Mac Basics: QuickTime Player creates, plays, edits, and shares video and audio files - Apple Support
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201066
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Thanks for coming to the Apple Support Communities!
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