- Reference 4.1 Understanding a Project
- Exercise 4.1.1 Creating a Project
- Reference 4.2 Defining the Primary Storyline
- Exercise 4.2.1 Appending the Primary Storyline
- Exercise 4.2.2 Rearranging Clips in the Primary Storyline
- Reference 4.3 Modifying Clips in the Primary Storyline
- Exercise 4.3.1 Performing Insert Edits
- Exercise 4.3.2 Rippling the Primary Storyline
- Reference 4.4 Timing the Primary Storyline
- Exercise 4.4.1 Inserting a Gap Clip
- Exercise 4.4.2 Blading and Deleting
- Exercise 4.4.3 Joining a Through Edit
- Exercise 4.4.4 Refining Some Sound Bite Edits
- Reference 4.5 Editing Above the Primary Storyline
- Exercise 4.5.1 Adding and Trimming Connected B-roll
- Exercise 4.5.2 Understanding Connected Clip Sync and Trimming Behaviors
- Reference 4.6 Creating a Connected Storyline
- Exercise 4.6.1 Converting Connected Clips into a Connected Storyline
- Exercise 4.6.2 Appending Clips to a Connected Storyline
- Reference 4.7 Editing Below the Primary Storyline
- Exercise 4.7.1 Connecting a Music Clip
- Reference 4.8 Finessing the Rough Cut
- Exercise 4.8.1 Adjusting the Edits
- Exercise 4.8.2 Adjusting Clip Volume Levels
- Exercise 4.8.3 Connecting Two Additional B-Roll Clips
- Exercise 4.8.4 Refining Edits Using Cross Dissolves and Fade Handles
- Reference 4.9 Sharing Your Progress
- Exercise 4.9.1 Sharing an iOS-Compatible File
- Lesson Review
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This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Exercise 4.5.2 Understanding Connected Clip Sync and Trimming Behaviors
Each of the three B-roll clips has a vertical connection point that synchronizes it to the primary storyline. These vertical relationships remain intact even when you alter the primary storyline. Let’s see how this works.
In the project, notice the connection points that anchor the B-roll clips to the sound bites in the primary storyline. Those are the connections you established by making a connect edit.
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If a sound bite moves within the Timeline, that movement will also be applied to any connected clips.
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Drag the middle of MVI_1042 to the right until the clip is located after MVI_1055.
Notice that DN_9390 was relocated with the sound bite, and the other two B-roll clips also slid to the left to remain synchronized with their connected sound bite.
Press Command-Z to undo the previous edit.
Connected clips are still independent clips that can be moved away from their synchronized, primary storyline clip.
Drag the middle of DN_9465 to the right until it connects after DN_9470.
DN_9465 establishes a new connection with the primary storyline.
Press Command-Z to undo the edit.
Final Cut Pro will maintain the synchronization of connected clips until you change the connection point or tell Final Cut Pro to ignore the connection.
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4.5.2-A Overriding the Connection
After connecting your B-roll clips, you may realize that you need to move a sound bite elsewhere in the primary storyline, but also need to leave the connected B-roll clips in place. The B-roll story you’ve created works great, but you’ve discovered your project is running too long. Or, you may want to experiment with a different arrangement of the sound bites without disturbing the B-roll order. You can temporarily suspend a connected clip’s sync point while adjusting the primary storyline clip.
In the project, position the mouse pointer over MVI_1055.
Hold down the ` (grave accent) key, and drag MVI_1055 after the second gap clip.
When you press the grave accent key, the pointer becomes a crossed-out connection symbol. Dragging a clip while holding down the grave accent key tells Final Cut Pro to ignore any connected clips during that edit.
The DN_9465 and the DN_9470 B-roll clips remain in place while the sound bite is moved later in the primary storyline. When the move is completed, the MVI_1055 sound bite slides to the right leaving behind one connected B-roll clip while reattaching to the other at a new connection point.
Press Command-Z to undo the edit.
Connected clips help your editing by maintaining the sync between clips you established when initially making the edit. Final Cut Pro lets you change your mind while maintaining that sync, or will sync to a different clip if you desire.
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4.5.2-B Trimming Connected Clips
Unlike the sound bites in the primary storyline, connected clips are independent of other connected clips and do not have a horizontal relationship with them. As a result, performing a trim edit on a connected clip produces results different from applying a trim edit to a clip in the primary storyline.
Place the Select tool over the end point of DN_9390.
Notice that a filmstrip does not appear on the trim icon as it would when trimming a clip in the primary storyline. You cannot ripple trim connected clips because no horizontal relationship exists between them.
Drag the end point to the left to trim the clip.
Only DN_9390 was affected by this trim edit.
Press Command-Z to undo the edit.
This default behavior gives connected clips horizontal independence. So, trimming one of two adjacent connected clips will not affect the timing of the second adjacent connected clip. However, you can establish a horizontal relationship between connected clips when necessary.
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