- 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
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Exercise 4.2.1 Appending the Primary Storyline
You are ready to edit your first clips into the Lifted Vignette project. Because this project is sound bite–driven, you will edit the sound bites into the primary storyline. Let’s first alter the interface so you can see as many clips and notes as possible in the Browser.
If necessary, in the Browser, select the list view.
With the Interview collection selected in the Primary Media event, click the Hide Libraries sidebar button.
Drag the Timeline divider down to create more vertical room in the Browser.
You can drag the area dividers to vertically expand or contract the areas above and below the divider.
Mitch provided a couple of great sound bites to open with during his interview when he talked about his passion for flying. You logged those gems with a favorite rating and included the word “passion” in the notes field. Rather than opening each clip here in list view to visually scan your notes for the word “passion” and an assigned rating of favorite, you’ll use the search field.
In the Browser, click the magnifying glass, then type passion in the search field that appears.
As you begin to type, the Browser updates immediately with the matching results: MVI_1042 and MVI_1055.
In the Browser select MVI_1042, and skim the clip to review the green, marked favorite.
As you skim the clip, notice that its audio is pitch corrected, which allows you to quickly review the clip’s contents at variable speeds while maintaining the aural clarity of its contents.
Your search results include a second clip tagged with the word “passion.”
In the Browser, play MVI_1055, and review its contents.
With a little trimming later in the edit, both sound bites could fit back to back into your storyline. Let’s edit these into the project as the first two sound bites.
In the Browser, select the favorite with the “passion when kid” note listed under MVI_1042.
Click the Append button, or press E, to add this clip selection to the project.
The clip’s selection is edited into the primary storyline. The E stands for “End.” No matter where the skimmer or playhead is currently located in the project, you can press E to quickly edit the active Browser selection to the end of the storyline.
Currently, the playhead is at the end of MVI_1042. The playhead jumps to the end of the clip you append edited to the project. This default playhead behavior in Final Cut Pro anticipates your next edit. But what happens if you move the playhead before the next append edit? Let’s find out.
Move the playhead to the left by clicking the empty gray area above MVI_1042.
This cues the playhead over MVI_1042, which you can see in the Viewer. With the next clip, you will perform an append edit with the playhead placed in the middle of MVI_1042 and observe the results.
Returning to the Browser, notice the Used entry under MVI_1042.
The Used listing identifies the clip’s selection used in the open project. As that was the only favorite for that clip, you will go to the next clip for the next edit.
In the Browser, select the “really the passion is” favorite in the MVI_1055 clip, and then press E to append this clip to the end of the storyline.
That was quick. The clip was edited to the end of the storyline immediately following MVI_1042. The playhead’s position had no impact on the append edit. You are two sound bites into the edit with several more to go. You could continue with this one-at-a-time approach to editing, but Final Cut Pro offers a slightly faster edit method.
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4.2.1-A Appending a Batch Edit to the Primary Storyline
You can use the append function to edit more than one clip at a time into the primary storyline. As you are building your first edit, you will be looking for your next clip in the Browser. Append allows you to remain in the Browser and storyboard the next few clips with one edit. This batch editing technique is a fast and simple way to edit several clips into your project at once.
In the Browser, switch to filmstrip view.
Currently, you are looking at two clips that were identified in your earlier search. You’ll need to clear the search field to reveal the rest of the sound bites.
In the Browser, click the Reset button (X) in the search field to clear the previous search.
The remaining clips in the Interview collection appear. You may select multiple sound bites to append at one time, and the order in which you select the clips is the order they will be edited into the project.
If desired, you may increase the size of the filmstrips by changing the Clip Appearance’s Clip Height slider.
In the Browser’s filmstrip view, click the first green range in MVI_1043.
The favorites you marked earlier appear as green stripes that you may use to quickly select the favorited ranges.
With the first favorite in MVI_1043 selected, Command-click the previously marked favorites of the following clips in this order to add them to the selection: MVI_1046, MVI_1045, and MVI_1044.
Press E to perform an append edit.
The clips appear at the end of the project in the same order you selected them in the Browser.
To see the entire project within the Timeline, click once in the Timeline gray area, and press Shift-Z.
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How Did Final Cut Pro Know Where to Put the Clips?
If you have prior editing experience, you may have noticed that you didn’t need to assign tracks, position the playhead, or set a start point to make this edit. The append edit function efficiently takes legacy overwrite editing to the next level.
4.2.1-B Playing the Project
To play the project, you may press the Home key to cue the playhead to the beginning of the Timeline; but on Apple Wireless Keyboards and laptops, the Home key is not labeled.
With the Timeline active, press the Home key or Fn-Left Arrow to simulate pressing the Home key.
The playhead is now cued to the beginning of the project.
Press the Spacebar to start playback.
Playback will stop when the playhead reaches the end of the project.
