Roll Tool

I'm just getting to grips with the roll tool (RR key command) I have run into a problem though. I have a number of tracks working together in a composite I take it you can't move clips that belong to the composite? If you can how would you perform this because I can't seem to carry it out.
Thanks

I don't understand. What exactly do you mean by composite. Have you vertically stacked clips in the timeline and adjusted the composite mode?

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This happens to me occasionally, and I just quit out of FCP and relaunch the application. Then I get my dual windows back.
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I am trying to use the roll tool on the video track and listen to the audio on the tracks underneath as I scroll back and forth. Is this possible? Thank you.
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Message was edited by: Daeris

Yes, pretty much right at the beginning of the clip. Through experimentation, I believe I've found out that I need to have sufficient frames prefacing the IN point and following the OUT point in order to input a longer transition. Is that correct?
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The project was shot on 35mm and transfered to 1080p 23.97 10bit uncompressed. I took the file in to FCP and through media manager maid a copy of it to ProRes 422 HQ 1080p.
The Problem is when I broke the clips up for each scene and take (like I usually do) and set my IN on the clapper and my IN on the audio file for that take at the sound of the clap and go to merge clips on IN points. The clip merges but not at the points I told it to. The audio gets shifted down or up by a good few seconds.
Why is this happening?
When I take the footage with the same IN mark and put it on the time line and the Audio with he same IN mark and put it on the time line it matches up. But not when I merge clips. I cant think what Im doing wrong if anything since this is the first time I have had this issue.
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I don't think FCE has a multi-cam function like FCP does ... so here's another way to do it (if it does have a multi-cam function, disregard this).
• Place the clip you'll likely to use most on track V1 (along with the audio on A1, A2).
• Place the other clip on V2 (audio on A3, A4).
• Double click one of the clips to load it into the Viewer window.
• Play the clip until you find a good sync point (either visually or audibly).
• Place a marker at that point.
• Double-click the other clip to load it into the Viewer and find the same point on that clip.
• Place a marker at that point.
• In the Timeline, line up the two clip markers - it will help to zoom in to make sure they're perfectly lined up.
• Once you have the two clips in sync, double-click the upper clip to load it back into the Viewer.
• Click on the Motion tab and use the Scale and Center controls to get a picture-in-picture effect.
• Back in the Timeline, unlink the audio and video from both clips.
• You can delete the audio clip that you don't want to use.
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• If you want to consolidate all of V2's clips with the clip on V1, select all of V2's clips, then holding down the Shift key, drag the clips down to V1.
• At this point, you can use the Roll tool to tweak your edit points if needed.
• Add transitions as desired.
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Ripple tool is buggy

Kind of a newbie here coming from avid and final cut so maybe I'm missing something here. Is anyone else experiencing the ripple tool behaving in odd ways. It always seems to work when I need to ripple forward but whenever I need to ripple back many times it just does a normal trim creating a gap. Sometimes I'm able to get it to work correctly by switching to a roll tool, rolling the edit, hitting control z then grabbing the ripple tool again. Plenty of handles and in the example I show that by doing a roll on the cut point yet it just won't ripple backwards. Please see linked vid.
Thanks,
Tim
http://vimeo.com/35574288

Thanks for the feedback. Yes, your right I copied the clips to a new sequence without audio and it worked. Whether or not its a bug may be open to discussion but the clip I was trying to ripple wasn't linked to any audio whatsoever and the edit I was trying to perform would have no effect on any clips that do have linked audio so there shouldn't have been any conflict. After playing around some more I discovered I can't ripple any of my b-roll clips (which live on another video track) backwards only forward. If this isn't a buy it certainly should be modified to work regardless if a clip is linked to any audio or what is happening on other video tracks.
Thanks for your insight at least now I know what to look for.

Roll edit one side of clip

It has been a while since I used FCP and I forgot a short cut that I love to use. I want to roll one side of a clip so that it ads frames to the beginning of the clip. I want to make the change in the Edit window. Is this too vague or does anybody have some suggestions?

To do a roll edit in the Timeline:
1 Select the Roll tool in the Tool palette (or press the R key).
2 Select an edit point between two clips.
If linked selection is on, the edit points of linked items are also selected.
3 Do one of the following:
•Drag the edit point left or right.
As you drag, the Canvas shows a two-up display with the Out point of the outgoing clip on the left and the In point of the incoming clip on the right.
•Type + (plus) or – (minus) followed by the number of frames to add or subtract from the current edit, then press Return.
Doing Roll Edits in the Viewer
Final Cut Pro allows you to perform roll edits in the Viewer by setting In or Out points while the Roll tool is selected.
To do a roll edit in the Viewer:
1 Open a sequence clip in the Viewer.
2 Select the Roll tool in the Tool palette (or press the R key).
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•Drag the In or Out point along the Viewer’s scrubber bar to roll the edit.
•Press I or O to set a new In or Out point.
Look in the Timeline to make sure the roll edit did what you expected.

Using Ripple Tool

I am trying to use the ripple tool as ilustrated in http://www.fcpbook.com/Effects1.html to add handles for transitions. The ripple tool only hi-lites the video line and not the audio line as illustrated. When I type in -15 and press tab key, I get message ( Clip Collision on A1 ). Don't know what to do.
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Hi(Bonjour)!
That's because your roll edit has effect on other clips than outcoming and incoming one, where the cut is applied.
To solve this problem, lock all audio and video tracks but those you are working on with roll tool.
Michel Boissonneault

Help understanding workflow for best quality.

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I understand the a DVD is only SD at best, and am recording in HD since I have room for the files, and someday we might have better options for the video than we have now.
I started using iMovie, and have iMovie 11, and just love how easy and slick it is to make impressive looking stuff.
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Does FCE do this with multiple cameras? I'd want to make sure that FCS does it, before I buy it and am stuck with it, especially if FCE will do it and I already have it.
Yes and No
No - Multicamera is a function in FC Pro
Yes - but You do it in a very "Paper-clip" way. Put each Camera on one track ontop of each other
Camera 1 - v-tr 1
Camera 2 - v-tr 2
Camera 3 - v-tr 3
Then schrink the view of each track to 25% with Vireframe and put them into one corner
each (Not the same one)
Move them so that the sync. frame eg a photo flash is on the same time for all three video-tracks.
Now when playing one see the three views in paralell.
THIS demands that all Cameras has a common Sync-point (I use a photo-flash)
AND that no Camera was turned off during uptake.
IT is also important to know if any of the Cameras are sencitive to movements.
My small one is.
So I put mine on tripods !
This recording behaviour is the same if using FinalCut Pro ! Cont. recording and one sync. frame.
Then when playing in FinalCut Express - one use the transparicy tool to make the
Camera visibly that has the best picture.
When done the full movie (by adjusting transparicy - one re-size the Video tracks to 100% and let them fill view.
Now when playback - You see the edited result.
In FC Pro - You set Your Cameras as Multi Camera and set the sync frame. Now it will
in Viewer play (in 25% size) and You just point at the best view trough the movie
and it will assemble in TimeLine. You need not to be especially on target - easily adjusted
with roll-tool (I think) in after hand.
1 hour editing two Cameras takes for me (ME)
• FinalCut Express - about 10 hours
• FinalCut Pro - 2 hours to Capture - 1h15min to edit.
There is a program - CaptureMagic SD (HD) - that let's You copy directly to Your Mac
hard disk - NEED is one FW-port per Camera
(Port is something else than the connectors, My PowerBook G4 has one FW400 and one FW800 connector
BUT ONLY one FW-port - So I need to use a CMA-CIA-card with one FW-connector to get a second FW-port )
This set-up works and I get the material Captured in real-time. Resulting in editing time 1h 15min per hour movie.
Yours Bengt W

I have two videos and I would like to use parts of both videos with one audio track what is the best way to edit this?, I have two videos and I would like to use parts of both videos with one audio track what is the best way to edit this?

In Final Cut Express I have two videos I'd like to merge parts of each video into a final film. What is the best way to do this in FCE?

Hi
I use a slightly different way than Alchroma.
Same
• One video on track 1 and the other on Video.track 2
• Resize to 25% and move one to the left and the other to the right
Diff
• I don't use the blade tool
• I use the Pen tool and change the transparency - then I get fast or slow transitions in same stroke and easy to fine-tune later if needed. (But this can be done with the Roll-tool if Blade is used - so it might be as easy)
Final
• Resize to 100% and Center
Video is done
Audio - very close to this by changing the level so that best audio will dominate
• Pen tool here too
But that's me - the Alchroma way is as good as this or may be better for some
Yours Bengt W

How to extend clips after multicam editing.

I recently learned how to use multicam editing and I think it is such a fantastic tool. One of the things that I struggled with, however, is the ability to extend/shorten one of the clips because the footage was too shaky during the transition to another clip.
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The "Roll" tool. Click between 2 clips and roll the edit left or right.

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