Trying to swap clips in the timeline doing it exactly as it says in a book - not happening - I am missing something-help-thanks

Trying to swap a clip in the timeline - doing what the book says - I am missing something - help - thanks

Usual mistake is to press the option key then click, hold and drag. Click and hold the mouse then press and hold the option key. Should work then.

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Trying to move clips in the timeline and they won't drop?

I'm trying to unlock tracks and that doesn't seem to help, what's going on? When I try to drop them in the place where I want them, instead of the cursor becoming that down arrow with the line below it, it just stays being the regular arrow cursor but with a star to the right of it and a square line appears on the timeline where I'm trying to drop the clip but it won't drop.

You can open your Project file in a text editor and see what links the project expects to find.
To do this,
1. Find your project in the iMovie/iMovie Projects/ folder. Make a copy of it, and put the copy on your desktop so you don't risk harming it in step 2. The project will have the name that you gave it, and will have the file extension RCPROJECT.
2. Open the copy of the RCPROJECT file in a text editor. You can do this by right-clicking (or control-clicking) on the project file and selecting OPEN WITH...some text editor.
You can open it in Text Edit, which comes standard on your Mac, but it may be confusing because of the hexadecimal characters. If you have access to the BBEDIT text editor, it seems to handle the hex characters better, so you can tell what is going on.
3. Now look at the links in the project file, and see where iMovie thinks they should be. If necessary, move them back there.
Hope this helps.

How come F10 does not put my clip into the timeline ?

How come F10 does not put my clip into the timeline ?
When I pressed F10, the sound icon appears instead.
Am I missing out something ?
Thanks

skalicki` wrote:
Technically, to make the function keys work you don't need to change the second box to dash. I don't know why I gave that advice, but it isn't necessary. I guess I said that simply because that's what I have it set to.
The reason there are two boxes is so that you can set Exposé to using both the function keys and the mouse. For example, if I have +All Windows+ set to F9 and Secondary Mouse Button, then it will show all open windows if I click F9 or right-click. That is why you actually don't need to have the second boxes for any of these set to dashes. You could set them to your mouse buttons, or if you wanted you could set the first box of any of these to any function key, as long as it isn't set to the same one as the key you want to use for your shortcuts within FCE.
I hope this made sense, I realize that I might not have explained it very clearly.
Message was edited by: skalicki`
Thanks skalicki, I think I got it. You've been of great help !!

Can only see first and last frame of clip in the timeline HELP PLEASE

Hi, my first time and I did look for an answer, but can't find one. I have premiere elements 4 and I am trying out ver. 9. In ver. 4 the clips in the timelin shows all the frames, but in ver. 9 it only shows the first and last frame of the clips. Is there any way to make all the frames show. By "all the frames", I mean the clips fill with frames.I liked to see all the frames in the timeline, it is easier for me to select and trim the bits out.
My specs are Core 2 Duo 6750, Nvidia 8600GTS, 4G Ram, Vista Home Premium. 3 HDD 3TB.
Thank you for answering
Werner

As for the GUI, PrE had one more like PrPro (the early versions), up through PrE 3. With PrE 4, they streamlined the GUI (and some of the operation), and went with the "dark look." PrPro went in that direction starting with CS3, and now, the two programs' GUI looks more alike - darker. Personally, I like PrPro 2.0's brighter GUI. Now, one can alter the brightness, but the contrast can work against doing much of that - give me the lighter GUI....
The look of PrE 4 thru PrE 9 is very similar, though things have moved about some. Still the look is similar. Same for PrPro CS 3 through CS 5.5.
As for the trial, things have changed in PrPro, as of CS 5.5. Once, the PrPro trial was very crippled, but had no watermark. No more. No crippling, and still no watermark. The trial for PrE is far less crippled, but does have the watermark. We do not know what changes might be coming with the trial of PrE10. We will just have to wait and see. One great option that Adobe offers is the 30-day, money-back guarantee. If you buy Premiere (either flavor), and use it for 29 days, but do not like it, then you return it for your money back. This is the full-paid version (both flavors) with nothing crippled, and no watermark. Not that many companies make such an offer. Basically, on can use the trial for 30 days, to see some of the powers of the program, and then buy it, and try it fully for another 29 days. If not completely satisfied, they get their money back - essentially a 59 day trial.
Were I doing AVCHD, I would definitely look at buying PrE 9, and giving it a 29 day shakedown. The only caveat is that AVCHD requires a lot of computer "horsepower," and not all computers (especially if more than a year, or so old) are up to that task. I find it amazing that a consumer format, like AVCHD, requires more computer power to process, than most professional formats, until one gets up to, say RED 2K/4K. However, that is the nature of the H.264 CODEC, and by that, I mean all H.264, not just the AVCHD version.
Good luck and happy editing,
Hunt

Problem Moving Clips in the Timeline

When I edited previously, I was able to drag one clip close to another, and it would automatically go directly next to that clip in the timeline. Also, when using the razor tool, bringing the razor close to the playhead would cause the cut to be made exactly where the playhead was in the timeline. This suddenly stopped happening--now when placing one clip next to another, it does not automatically stop where the next clip begins, and I have to be very careful so that they don't overlap in the timeline. The razor tool is likewise not drawn to the playhead.
I'm sure that I must have inadvertently hit a button that caused this, but cannot figure out what I did. I've looked around trying to find out how to fix the problem, but I haven't been able to find anything. I'm sure the answer is probably quite obvious, so I appreciate the understanding, and I would be very grateful for any help.

Welcome to the forum!
Sounds like you have inadvertently turn Snapping off. The n key toggles it off and on. There should also be a button near the upper right of the Timeline window for it.
-DH

Is there a way to quickly locate a clip on the timeline back to the bin?

Hi there,
Unfortunately I try to equate FCP with adobe premiere pro (I need to let it go), but one thing I always did find useful was right clicking on a clip in the timeline and saying "locate". It took me straight to the raw footage in the capture bin.
Is there anyway of doing something like this in FCP. I've located it using "finder" but it takes me to the folder where it's stored rather than the bin.
Hope you can help (as always)
Carol Ann

cah26 wrote:
Unfortunately I try to equate FCP with adobe premiere pro (I need to let it go), but one thing I always did find useful was right clicking on a clip in the timeline and saying "locate". It took me straight to the raw footage in the capture bin.
The functionality you're looking for is Reveal Master Clip. The shortcut for that is Shift-F.
However, this depends on your not breaking the link between the master clip (what's in the Browser, as mentioned) and the affiliate clip (what you're clicking on in your sequence). One common way (in FCP 5.x or earlier) of breaking that link was to copy a sequence over from another project, as the clips from that copied-over sequence all become Master Clips (meaning Shift-F won't work). Also, if you import sequences via XML (because you're swapping stuff with another station), there will be no Master Clips to link back to (that info is not contained in the XML).
With those caveats in mind, you should be good to go with a simple Shift-F.

Dropping A Clip into the Timeline

I just started editing with FCE, and I am very new at this video editing outside of imovie. I am trying to edit a project with multiple cameras. I have decided to drop in video to the timeline as I want to switch cameras. When I first did this today FCE seemed to delete the same amount of video as I was dropping into the timeline. This is very desirable as then I am saved the issue of having to edit out the extra footage that is created after I drop in the new video. Problem is it only worked once, and I am not sure what I did to achieve those results.
In short I would like to find out if it is possible to drop video into the timeline, and have the new video "pasted" over the old portion of the video. I hope I am making sense since it is hard to describe what I want to do while I do not know the lingo.

Thank you so much! I tried to find this in the manual, but not knowing what it is called it was obviously not easy. I am glad you were able to figure out what I was talking about despite the shortcomings of my video editing vocabulary.
I am slowly discovery that I love to edit in FCE. I have volunteered to edit the video from a children's play my church puts on each year. Each year it seems to get more difficult as we add more cameras. I finally took the plunge this year with FCE as iMovie did not seem up to the challenge.
I have audio from a professional sound board, and synced that up with the camera that has the best angle. I have locked the sound board audio, and then I delete any new audio that is added when I add video tracks....Which now that I look at my timeline it does not seem to be adding any audio when I add clips from the viewer which suits my purposes just find, but I am not sure why.

Is there a way to copy & paste a clip from the timeline in one project in to another project?

Hello Popular Premiere Pontificaters,
I am using Premiere 6 on a Windows 7 machine.
Is there a way to copy and paste a clip from the timeline in one project in to another project?... I can copy my clip, but when I open the other project, it will not allow me to paste it in there... but I am able to copy and paste a clip within a single project. I tried everything... pasting in to a new video track and pasting in to an existing video track in the second project, but the paste option simply isn't there when I open the second project.
And if Premiere itself will not allow me to do this in any way, will a copy-paste clipboard type of accessory app allow me to do this?... if so, which is the best, trustworthy copy-paste app that is malware free?
Thanks,
digi

Hi Bill Hunt,
I just read the page that you provided about "Handles"... thanks allot for that ARTICLE. In your article and the subsequent article HANDLES, "Transitions Overview: applying transitions" linked from your article, it indicates (in PrE and PrPro anyway - I'm in Premiere 6) that transitions can be applied to non-Video 1 tracks... the paragraph below is a quote from that "Transitions Overview: applying transitions" article...
"Whatever is below the transition in a Timeline panel appears in the transparent portion of the transition (the portion of the effect that would display frames from the adjacent clip in a two-sided transition). If the clip is on Video 1 or has no clips beneath it, the transparent portions display black. If the clip is on a track above another clip, the lower clip is shown through the transition, making it look like a double-sided transition."
So this indicates that transitions can be applied to non-Video 1 tracks since it is referring to content in tracks beneath a transparent fade that would show through... and only non-Video 1 tracks can be transparent and have other clips "beneath" them in the timeline, right?
In the screenshot sample in your article at this LINK, I see the handles (referred to as B and E) and I can see in my monitor window how those handles would be represented by the two little bracket symbols { } ... you can see how they appear in my monitor window in Premiere 6 in this screenshot, and below, from a different thread that isn't related to this topic.
But I'm still trying to figure out how the handles can be applied in the non-Video 1 tracks in the timeline to insert a transition (cross-dissolve) between two clips.
Can you advise me on this?... I posted a separate thread HERE on this topic, but I haven't got any further with finding an answer.
Thanks so much for your article,
digi

How do I select all instances of a clip in the timeline at once without manually shift clicking each instance?

Title says it all!
How do I select all instances of a clip in the timeline at once without manually shift+clicking each instance?
The reason I want to do this is because I have a music video with MANY quick cuts. So clips are cut up and splattered all over the place. I am colour-correcting now and so I want to be able to select one clip everywhere it exists in the timeline so I can drag the effect onto all them at once, without having to find each instance of the clip in the timeline. This "batch select" would make it so I don't miss any instances of the clip and also saves a ton of time going through the timeline and shift clicking each time the clip turns up.
I hope PP is smart enough to do this
Thanks in advance!
-- Tim

Pick one instance of the clip, maybe even the first bit ... and use the new Master Clip feature ... here's first a written explanation and then a video tutorial on doing this ... it's a great feature.
Adobe Premiere Pro Help | Master Clip Effects
How to apply effects to all instances of a clip | Adobe Premiere Pro CC tutorials
Neil

Something happened, now I can't select clips in the timeline of my current project(in Elements 4)

I've been working on a project for a few days now, everything's been fine. Last night while editing, something happened when I was trying to add a transition between two clips. Now I can't select or edit any clips in the timeline anymore, and can't add new ones. When I click on the clips in the timeline, nothing happens. When I try to drag the select box around several of them, same thing. It acts like there's nothing to select. Same thing with right clicks, soundtrack mp3s, etc. The clips ARE still THERE though, and they all play fine in the preview screen in real time, and when I drag the slider back and forth along them.
All the clips are already rendered except the one transition I was adding when this started. When I hit 'Enter' to render, though, it says "Rendering 1 of 6 Audio Previews" instead of the usual x-number of video previews. I've not seen that before so it probably has something to do with all this.
It's ONLY with this one project. I can still edit and select clips in all my other projects as before.
I've already tried loading other projects and then coming back to this one, as well as closing the program and re-opening it. My current project is still stuck like this but the others are fine.
Please keep all this info in mind. This can't have anything to do with codecs or the clips being in the wrong format for the program. They're all regular AVI files and MP3s, I've been selecting and editing every single clip on this timeline dozens of times over the past few days with no problems. I'm just suddenly not able to select or edit them anymore or add anything new to the timeline, but they still play normally as previews.
I'm really hoping this is a simple thing where I've just tripped some setting and accidentally saved it that way and it can be easily changed back.

OK, then all that I suggested here:
Now, Exit from PrE, and Shutdown the computer completely. Wait a few moments, and then do a cold boot, launching PrE and Opening that Save_As Project. Do you now have the ability to edit the Clips on the Timeline?
If not, go to the location where you Copied the AutoSave folder, and view the files with Detail View ON. Then, look at the Date/Time of the files (probably will be 5 of them). Choose the last one written, Open that, and test. If no change, work backwards to the oldest.
If nothing is working, the only thing that comes to my mind would be an issue with the display driver, BUT that should affect all Projects, and not just this one. However, updating the video driver is always a good step, and should not hurt anything.
Note: many MP3's can cause all sorts of problems. I recommend always converting them to PCM/WAV @ 48KHz 16-bit, and replacing MP3's with those WAV files. One can use the great, free audio-editor, Audacity, to convert the MP3's.
If all of the above tests fail, let us know, and if you get any error, or warning messages, copy those down completely, and post those
all failed too?
If so, there is nothing that I can suggest. It seems that your Project is hosed, and is very likely not recoverable.
Sorry,
Hunt

How do I lock clips on the timeline?

Hi,
I am compiling music videos, taking the best grabs from 6 to 10 takes of a song which the band played along with the studio recording of the song.
The sound track is therefore the synch mechanism.
I am lining all the takes up above each other in synch with the master audio track.
My problem is that when I make cuts in the various takes the clips all ripple backwards and I have to constantly keep re-synching the clips.
I have used this method previously in Premiere Pro 6 which had a padlock symbol at the left hand end of the tracks which was used to lock or unlock the clips on the timeline.
Is there a control key that will do this for me in Premiere Elements and if not, could you suggest another way to get around this problem?
Thanks,
Nick
PS an unrelated question: Can I run Elements 9 on my laptop? (2 gb Ram, 1.66ghz intel centrino duo). I know that the processor speed is lower than recommended but am wondering if it will just run slowly or not at all.
Cheers

PRE does not have a lock feature. By default it ripple deletes (i.e butts the clips either side of a cut). To override this right-click and select clear or use [Shift]+[Delete].
Personally I think you would find the experience unpleasant running on that laptop, but the best thing to do is to install it and see (your licence allows you to install on two machines providing both are not in use at the same time).
Cheers,
Neale
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Multicam Clips in the Timeline and Image Stabilization

I've got a multicam clip in my timeline that I would like to use image stabilization on. What I'd like to do is:
double click on the clip which brings up the angle editor with the range and angle selected.
press cmd-B to blade the clip
turn on image stabilization.
Unfortunately, step one doesn't work. I'm forced to open up the angle editor and manually skim and search for the desired angle and time range. It would be okay if the playhead in the angle editor was slaved to the one in the timeline. Then when you went into the angle editor you'd be right at the desired source material, but no, the two seem to be independant of each other. It makes performing the task much slower and more tedious. So much so I am convinced more experienced users are going to know a quicker way to do it.
So, does anyone know an easier work-around for this?

Thank you Tom and Luis, but I'm not with any of this. I can add a clip to the timeline or insert a clip into it via the "arrow tools". If I attempt to shorten the clip IN the timeline there is a blank space representing the amount trimmed from the clip.
I want the next clip along to that I've trimmed to automatically move along the timeline albeit shortening the total project duration.
Pressing "A" on the keyboard doesn't achieve this.
I simply click on the clip in the timeline to highlight it with the yellow margin. I then click on one "edge" with the arrows symbol and drag the edge inwards. This then leaves the space I do not want.
As for "Preferences" when I click this under "Final Cut Pro" i see nothing either relevant to this problem or that I could trash.

How do I see every frame of a clip on the timeline in Premier ?

There are of course times when I need to see every frame of a clip to synchronize two clips. Imagine for example that you have a two camera shoot and both cameras were looking at a clapstick, or at a strobe. I want to put both clips on the timeline and zoom in to see every frame. Now I can align the two clips fo that one specific frame of each clip is over/under each other. However, when I have zoomed into the timeline it seems I can never zoom quite enough to see every frame What do I do to be able to zoome all the way in to the timeline so I can see every frame of the clips ? I haven't actually tried this yet with CC, but did with CS6 and it wouldn't do it.

I'm not knocking the idea of using the program monitor to place markers on sync points and using that to synchronize clips. It should be a very good solution.
What I am saying is that there are times when it would be advantageous to be able to see every frame of multiple clips on the timeline. When i first tried to do that I zoomed in and it looked as if it would display all the frames. I was dissappointed to find it wouldn't. As an editor who has done a lot of resynchronizing multiple camera shoots where there is no intentional visual sync cue, i can tell you it can be a big help to be able to see the frames as if we had a strip of film on each timeline. Sometimes we need to see several frames of each clip at the same time to make a decision about which frame represents the sync point, or to make the quickest possible decision about where to start and end a dissolve, or to chose which camera to use. In a scene shot with only one camera, there is no actual sync point. The action may have progressed slightly differently between shots. Being able to see 10 or 15 frames from each shot can help to make the quickest decision about how to line up the shots and where to do the transition. Would anyone out there say it would be a bad thing if Premier Pro could display every frame when we zoom all the way in ? It seems to me that it could only help. So i request Adobe consider it as a possible future improvement.
Here is an example, the last time i tried to see every frame in Premier. I had a scene I used Maya to create, series of Tiffs. This scene shows an object appearing as if arriving through a time or dimensional portal. The scene includes plasma popping and flashing. There are two different shots of the same moment in time. The shots are frame numbered. So if I could see the frame numbers from the original tiffs on the timeline I could align the shots that way. But of course I lose the frame numbers. The overall scene is too long, and rendering time too long, especially for 3-D 1080, to render each shot from the beginning of the scene, which would make synchronizing very easy. So i needed to sync to the flashing plasma in the scene. I though I had the shots lined up using a flash. It turned out they were not the same flash. So if i did a slow dissolve between shots, the flashes form each shot would not line up in time. What I needed to do is line up several flashes happening over a couple of seconds, so I coud verify the flashes were the same flashes. There are different numbers of frames between each flash, so if I got three to line up they would have to be the same flashes. I spent a lot of time trying to get these shots lined up. If I could zoom into the time line and see evry frame I could synchronize several clips by lining up the flashes, in just a couple of minutes. To do this with markers, marking say five flashes from each of four shots, it would take several minutes to do it before being ready to do the synchronizing. It's a workable solution, but is not ideal, a compromise.

How do you move a sound clip in the timeline?

I have not had this problem before. I have put many songs into the timeline, and repositioned them. Today I pulled up a project and attempted to reposition a song to fit in better with the clip, and I'm unable to do so. I can't select the song, or anything else. Obviously I have set or locked up this track, and I can't figure out how to unlock if that is what I have done. I have 6 songs on that track, Audio track 2, and I can't reposition any of them. I can't even remove them from that track. What am I doing wrong?

Hunt, most of my music files, over 9000 songs, are mostly mp3 files and a few are wma, and because of copyright laws I wouldn't use them in a commercial project I'm working on anyway. When I am working on a project for a client I will generally use higher quality WAV files. This project was being done just to learn some new techniques, gain some more experience with PPCS4, and expand my knowledge with the program. I have this huge number of music files and styles to work with, so I can do a great deal of experimentation to see what different songs can do to the mood of the video.
As a test, I did put the exact same songs into the timeline on a different audio track. The problem track is audio 2, and I duplicated those songs on audio 3. I did the exact same editing. I faded them in and out the same as before. Split one song into 3 sections had parts of it come in and out over a video section of 9 minutes duration. They are working perfectly. I was just working on one section of that project a half hour ago, and I was still able to select and move each of the four songs on that track any way that I wanted to. However, the track just above it in that same timeline, Track 2, is still frozen.
Hunt, just a moment ago I solved my problem. Still not being that familiar with the program, two days ago I know that I was playing with all of the controls, and I obviously hit one of them without knowing one of its side effects. I hit the show "show track keyframes". I'm sure that you know it, but I didn't realize that when that function is selected, you can't do much else with the track but play with those keyframe. Even though I didn't have the track locked, in the traditional way, it was still, for all practicall reasons, locked. I unchecked that function and now everything is back to normal again on that track.
Something very simple, as many things turn out to be when you understand it. However, maybe someone else will make the same mistake, and my posting here will help them.
I will use your suggestions for using .WAV files. Thank you again.
Terry Lee Martin
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 14:29:37 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: How do you move a sound clip in the timeline?
Terry,
What is the purpose of using the .WMA files? I'm sure that you have a good reason, but they can be problematic, at best. I only use them as a trasfer medium, when I need to get a DD 5.1 SS soundtrack into Audition for editing. There, I break them out into 6 discrete .WAV files, edit in Multi-track Mode and then usually Export as the 6 discrete WAV's to be encoded to DTS, or similar.
If you do not have a compelling reason for using the .WMA, try PCM/WAV @ 48KHz 16-bit and see if the issues go away.
Good luck, and let us know how it goes please,
Hunt
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How do I hide a clip in the timeline?

How do I hide a clip in the timeline? In the old version, at the far left of the timeline, there was a green button with a filmstrip icon. Clicking that toggled the clip on and off to let me see the clip below it. Where is that button now?
FCP X 10.1.1
Mac OS 10.9.1
iMac 3.2 Ghz Intel Core i5
shoe size 10.5

I have the full version of FCP-X on a new Mac. I still have my old FCP-6 on my old Mac.
I have something in FCP-X that looks like rows (tracks) in the timeline. I have several clips that form a horizontal line and directly under that is another horizontal row of clips. I call them rows or tracks. Maybe that is not the correct term. I just tried to create additional rows, and created six tracks (horizontal rows) each containing multiple clips. FCP plays only the top clip, which is the same as the old version.
I have found a way to disable a single clip, but what I want to do, and it was as easy as pressing the green button in FCP-6, is to temporarily disable the entire row of clips.
Often I have multiple cameras shooting the same event. I want to quickly disable one camera view and see the one below it. If the video is chopped up into small segments, then It would take too long to disable each clip individually.
I wish they would have kept the old features when they upgrade the software.

Trying to swap clips in the timeline doing it exactly as it says in a book - not happening - I am missing something-help-thanks

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