While moving a clip to the timeline cc puts it to the righ instead of on top

while moving a clip to the timeline cc puts it to the righ instead of on top

Maybe it can't put it on the track above it because you have the lower track set as the Source Patching destination.

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While trimming a clip in my timeline, the entire timeline moves with my trim. How can I stop that and leave a gap in-between clips?

While trimming a clip in my timeline, the entire timeline moves with my trim. How can I stop that and leave a gap in-between clips? Also when I use my blade it only leaves a dotted line in the clip. How can I make that a solid line? I do a lot of flickering in my videos and don't need that some what of a snapping effect while I edit. Please help me someone. I believe i upgraded from FCP 10.0.1 to 10.0.3 and before it never did this.

Mark an In point and an Out point (which creates a Range) and hit the forward delete key (Replace with Gap.) On a MacBook, you'll probably need to hold down the Fn key and type the Delete key (or, I think you might be able to use Shift-Delete as the same command). On an iMac/Mac Pro keyboard, it's the key just to the left of 'end' or the next key above the left arrow key.
You can use the Range tool (hold down the R key and click drag over your clip) or the Blade tool to cut at the in and out (then select the cut and replace with gap).
You can also go into Commands > Customize (command-option-K) and assign a different key to Replace with Gap.
If you need to ripple edit the ends (cut), create a small section that is Gap, and hold down the T key while you use the mouse to click drag both ends (double sided trim cursor) of the cut.
Don't worry about the dotted line blade... That just lets you know that the frames on either side of the cut are continuous, or sequential — nothing has been moved yet. Once frames from either side of the mark have been cut, it becomes a full fledged cut resembling a separate clip.

Importing a lot of video clips from a Sony camera to FCE; during the Log and Transfer process, is there a way to add multiple clips to the browser instead of one at a time?

Importing a lot of video clips from a Sony camera to FCE; during the Log and Transfer process, is there a way to add multiple clips to the browser instead of one at a time?

Select one and click cmd-A which selects them all.
Then click the import button if it hasn't started already.

Losing the audio track when moving a clip from the browser to the timeline

Today we were trying to add two clips from the browser in Final Cut Express HD to the timeline that was created yesterday. The problem is, the clips we were adding today are not moving with the audio tracks. All other clips from when we created the movie are fine but the two we added today have no sound. The audio works when viewing the clip in "viewer" but not once it is moved to the timeline. Any thoughts?

Hi(Bonjour)!
Look at the left side of the time line, there is a device (the patch panel) to set the current video and audio target tracks. (little V1 and a1 a2 icons). Swith them to desired tracks to select the target audio tracks (that's where the video and audio-or just one of them-will be inserted in timeline upon editing). There is also a contextual menu (control click) with reset panel command.
Michel Boissonneault

Why is FCPX freezing repeatedly while moving title clips?

Hello to all.
I am facing an exasperating situation. I am at the tag end of a project and I find that FCPX is freezing whenever I try to relocate a title. Have been forcrd to repeatedly force quit! Have trashed the preferences repeatedly, have restarted and even shut down the computer, have deleted thumbnail data, but, FCPX refuses to work.
Have read other posts in which one gentleman facing a similar problem was able to shift his titles with the inspector window closed. In my case, his method of surmounting the problem has not worked.
Right now I am minded to do this:
open FCPX once again, delete the existing titles, accurately place new titles and renter the text. Shall let you know the progress.
Until then, if there is some useful input in this totally frustrating matter, I would be too happy to lap it up!
Thanks in advance.

An update.
I have done this: copy the 'problematic' section of the project into a new project and have tried to edit the title clips in the new project...but this too was not of help.
I noticed that the FCPX would freeze only when a playback is attempted with the clip selected. But it would not whimper were I to move the clips, extend or shorten them.
Upon this realisation, making a 'crude' assessment based upon the audio waveforms, I did my 'rough' editing of the titles...and, the finished work appeared 'decent' enough. The flaws would be certainly noticed by seasoned viewers.
While pondering over this matter, I have this hunch that this erratic behavior of FCPX could have been triggered by my doing this: I had need of placing many titles in the project, and all of the text had to be given [almost] the same size fonts, tracking, face color, outline color and width. I had in an earlier thread asked whether there was any shortcut by which one could get all these parameters into the text without having need to edit each title individually. In that thread I learnt that one needed to do such a 'custom title' in Motion, which I do not have. In a moment of 'carelessness', acting against my better judgment, I did this 'easy' way of gettting things done: copy one title which had been editied and paste it at the required spot on the timeline; this done, I would delete the earlier text and replace it with the new one.
I guess that resorting to this 'easy shortcut' had forced me to take the 'hard long route'!
Whether this 'logic' of mine regarding the origin of the problem is correct or not, I sincerely hope that Apple would give its fans the happiness of easily adding preset parameters such as font size, face color, outline color and width etc. to one's text from within FCPX itself.
I would also like to hear from other forum members regarding this seriuos matter. From other posts I understand that I am not unique in facing this problem but others too have faced it. For those to whom videomaking is a hobby [I am not one of them], having to face or pass through this kind of problem may not affect their careers adversely, but for those who are professionals [I am not one of them!], whose livelihoods and reputations are at stake, facing this problem would be the equivalent of smelling one's goose being cooked!
I would also like the reader viewing this post to view this short video which has given me so much trouble:
http://youtu.be/9niDagLrf4I

Moving all clips in the timeline

I have a sequence make up of all still images. I need to change and shorten the opening image. I delete the image insert the new shorter image. I select the entire time to the right of the new image (several videos tracks) using the double arrow selector. Then try to move the whole timeline as one block by holding down the mouse on the selection and sliding it to the left. However, it will not move. All I get is a down pointing arrow and can not move it left or right. I seem to be able to move the block up a track though.
What am I doing wrong

Thanks,
I selected the first image and everything to the left them deleted (event though I could not see anything in the timeline). I then had to replace the first image and could move the timeline to where it needed to be.
Could not see anything in the way but there must have been something somewhere.
Thanks

Moving Subtitle clips in the timeline

I want to select all of the clips in one subtitle stream and slide them up in time by 1 sec. I'm sure it's simple but the obvious Shift-click or Command-click doesn't get it.
Thanks.

Answer is - unfortunately - that it can't be done (at least not easily). this is why ou find most people who create subtitles a lot don't create them within DVD-SP. I know it's stupid you can't shift them en masse but that seems to be the way it works.
Suggestions...?
You really need it as an external file - usually an STL file. This is basically a file which ahs information of the time in and time out timecodes and the text of the subs. There are various other commands you can add to this file to give you Italics where needed, typesize, font etc which are shown in the manual
What you need to do is export an item description of the track with the subs
Then download Subtitler (which is free) from:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/26322
You then import your item description into Subtitler.
Make sure when you use this not to use the Auto Detect as this often doesn't work. Change the format to: DVD Studio Pro Track/Disk Info
This will open the item description and extract the subtitles then save this out as an STL file. (ie. subname.stl)
You now have several choices - you open the STL file in Text Edit and manually add the time shift you want to the file. Alternatively you can something like STL edit (which would be usueful to have in your arsenal if you are doing a lot of subs).
http://software.guishen.com/
There is a cost of $40 which isn't too drastic and this can do a timeshift for you in few seconds
Sorry this is a bit rambling but hope it helps
Steve Kirkham

Moving instances/clips around on timeline

I am finding that moving clips/instances around is quite jerky and slow. Is this normal?
Have all the latest updates etc on a MacPro heaps of ram and have Adobe Cert cuda card.
I have just migrated from FCP and moving clips around on a timeline is smooth and fast in FCP.
This is my only gripe with PP at the moment everything else fat and stable. Obviously I can use the overlay functions etc. but
I like to move things around on the timeline manually... I hope that I'm doing something wrong.
Anyone?
Cheers

Did you figure out your issue?
I'm trying to remove clips and save them, and haven't figured out how to do that yet.

Moving multiple clips simultaneously on timeline

Hi!
Is it possible to move multiple clips - lying side by side - simultaneously to a new location on timeline. I know how to move one clip at a time.
Regards.

Drag a lasso around all the clips you want, that will highlight them all. Then move to where you want.
Shane

Interesting Observation and fix for crashing while moving / trimming clips

Since day one I have been plagued by STP crashing when I tried to trim clips or move them in time. Recently I noticed this only happens on projects sent to STP from FCP. New projects have never had this horrible symptom.
So I copied all the assets of a project to the clipboard and pasted them into a new empty document and the problem went away. I needed to tweak the positions of some of the automation anchor points but that was minor.
I just thought I'd share that with you folks. After this current project is complete I install FCP Studio 3 and the new STP. Maybe the bug is fixed in the new version.

Nice workaround. Thanks for sharing it!

Gaps between clips on the timeline

I wonder if there is a way to gain control of moving clips on the timeline. If I grab a video clip on the timeline and drag it left, it bumps the adjacent clip and moves it left. If I haven't let go of the mouse and move the held clip back towards the right, the clip I bumped doesn't go back to its original position. If I leave the held clip where I dropped it, there is now a gap, which looks bad and can mess with the playback in iMovie.
I would like a way to drag clips so that they butted up to the adjacent clip without moving it. I would also like a way to remove any gaps in one fell swoop.
I am relatively new to the app: but to remove a gap, the only (lame) way I can see to fix it is to manually move each clip to the right of the gap. But because the clips that I would bump can move, that screws up everything. There must be a better way.
thanks,
Jim

Catspaw's solution is a good way to remove all the gaps. Note that to see the gaps represented as "Black" clips (instead of gaps) you must view the Timeline in Clips mode. Click on the little rectangle icon above the left end of the Timeline.
Gaps disappear as you describe when you've previously added a gap by dragging a clip to the right. Creating that gap was probably a mistake, so losing it isn't usually a problem. If the gap appeared when you moved a clip right, the Edit > Undo Move command lets you undo that move.
If you created the gap intentionally -- to serve as a placeholder for a clip you want to add later -- you can make it "permanent" by changing its color from black to some other color. (With the timeline in Clip mode, double-click on the "Black" clip to change its color.) Now the gap won't disappear as you drag clips towards it.
All dragging functions are made easier by turning on these two features in iMovie preferences: 1) Snap to items in Timeline and 2) Play sound effects when snapping. When you drag a clip it's a lot more likely to land where you want it.
Karl

Is there a keyboard shortcut to duplicate a clip on the timeline?

Is there a key I can hold down while selecting a clip on the timeline and immediately duplicate it?

No. But you can use the standard Copy/Paste shortcuts.

FCE freezes when moving between clips! Help?

Not with all transitions, but with some, sometimes even moving between clips from the same batch of film(!) FCE will stop playing through in the timeline, sound will jerk to a halt, and I'll then see what I call the "Colorful wheel of death" as FCE tries to deal with it and stops responding, making me Force Quit, which is a Jedi ability I now have much use in, btw... I have tried to Trash Prefs but still no good, and as I am fairly new to this software, with less than a year's experience, I need help!
I have three major projects to do before year's end!
What do I do?

First be sure you've correctly trashed your preferences. Follow the advice here: http://www.fcpbook.com/Misc1.html
Be sure everything is rendered before you playback. Be sure none of the windows (particularly Canvas) are overlapping.
Move your RT playback quality to low.
Sometimes it helps to reduce the opacity of an offending clip to 99% (via the motion tab in the viewer)before playing your sequence in the timeline. I can't explain why this works but its saved me alot.

Timeline Bug while dragging, trimming, moving a clip

Hello,
I have a huge problem with Adobe Premiere Elements 11 on a Mac, OSX Lion - only in the expert mode:
If I want to drag a clip in my timeline or reposition it or trimm it, the normal background of the timeline is replace with a copy of the preview-part above. So I could not see where to place my clip exactly. I see only the duplicated preview area - see my screenshots:
Insert a clip:
Remove a clip:
Normal view, while doing nothing:
How can I fix this problem? Has anyone the same bug?
Best regards
Tom

Bob
No I am not affiliated with Adobe in any way. Just an Elements user, and an Elements Windows user at that. But I have an over active troubleshooting gene.
The issue symptoms that you present surely do fit the profile intended for that Adobe issue and its fix. Since Adobe did offer the fix, I assumed that it had insider information on cause and its relationship to the fix.
Even if you do not act on updating display driver for your new computer, for troubleshooting purposes, I would identify the display driver that you have, go to the web site of the display driver card's manufacturer, and verify that the display driver is up to date to rule that factor in or out. In troubleshooting,take nothing for granted. If you verify that the display driver is up to date, then I would go back to Adobe Technical Service, update it on your details, and then learn "what next".
Several months ago elsewhere I was working with a Premiere Elements 11 Mac user, dealing with this same issue. Last I heard from him, nothing worked.
We will be watching for your progress.
Thanks.
ATR

I am moving clips to the timeline and they arrive zoomed in. how can I stop this?

need some help. I'm moving clips to the timeline and they arrive zoomed in. I don't want this effect. How can I stop it?

To expand a little on John's questions and link, every clip and every sequence has its own frame dimensions (and pixel aspect ratio & frame rate). By default, Premiere preserves the dimensions (or "resolution") of a clip when you add it to a sequence. That means that if a clip's resolution is greater than that of the sequence, it will appear to be zoomed in on the frame. Conversely, if the clip is lower res than the sequence, it will appear shrunk, with black borders.
If all of your content is the same resolution (which is the ideal case), then you should use a sequence that matches. The easiest way to do so is the "New Item" method that John refers to--dragging a clip to the Project Panel's New Item button--or, in later releases of PPro CC, dragging it into an empty Timeline panel. If you're working with content of mixed resolution, then you have to pick your poison and scale smaller clips up or larger clips down. The latter option is generally preferred because the former--scaling clips up--often results in unacceptable pixelation.

While moving a clip to the timeline cc puts it to the righ instead of on top

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