Final Cut Pro HD | H•O•T Hands-On Training [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

1.

To get started, open Chapter 05 Project and load Seq Markers to the Timeline. The sequence may be empty, which is perfectly OK. Double-click MS Brown coat to load it from the Browser to the Viewer. If there are any Ins or Outs, delete them (press Option+X). Notice that the clip has a total duration of 13:01.

Imagine that this clip, instead of being 13 seconds long, is actually 13 minutes long. Further, imagine that you want to work only with a small portion of the clip, and you want to pull multiple shots from that small section. One technique that works really well is to turn just the portion of the clip you want into a subclip. A subclip acts like it's a real, stand-alone clip. But, in point of fact, it's just "pointing" into a small section of the much larger media file on your hard disk.

Subclips make working with large files much easier, without requiring any changes to your master media files or even any additional disk space for new media.

2.

Using the MS Brown coat in the Viewer, set an In at 01:01:30:24. Then, set an Out at 01:01:39:15. Notice that the clip has a new duration of 8:22. So far, this is nothing new.

3.

Choose Modify > Make Subclip and watch what happens. The shot in the Viewer remains unchanged. But, in the Browser a new icon appears with the name MS Brown coat Subclip.

4.

Double-click this new subclip and look at it in the Viewer. Notice that where the Out was is now the end of the clip, indicated by the sprocket holes on the right edge.

What you've done is create a new version of this clip, where the old In and Out have been replaced by the new clip's Media Start and Media End. It's as though you had just captured this clip directly from tape. But you didn't; you just pointed to the original media file and created a new clip from itnot by duplicating the actual media files, but by creating a new pointer file that just points to a small section of the media file.

Subclips are a great way to make large, lengthy media files usable within Final Cut.

5.

You edit with subclips exactly as you would a regular clip. Set an In and Out, and edit it to the Timeline. Trim it. Move it around. It acts just like a regular clip. With one added feature: Double-click the subclip to load it back into the Viewer. Then, choose Modify > Remove Subclip Limits.

The Viewer goes black, indicating the subclip is no longer a separate entity from the master clip it came from.

6.

Double-click MS Brown coat Subclip in the Browser to load it back into the Viewer. With the subclip limits removed, this clip is an exact duplicate of MS Brown coat.

7.

That ends this exercise, so you can close this project. You don't need to save your work; you won't be coming back to this sequence.

There's another really useful feature of Final Cut Pro that involves a combination of markers and subclips. But to use it, you need to understand DV Start/Stop Detect.

NOTE | Using DV Start/Stop Detect

When you are shooting DV video, every time you press the Record button, your camera records a special, invisible signal on the tape saying, essentially, "Hey! Somebody pushed the Record button!!" (Or, you know, something reasonably close to that, anyway.)

These record flags, as they are called, are transferred when you capture your DV footage into Final Cut as part of the metadata that's transferred along with the audio, video, and timecode. (Metadata is data that describes other data, similar to the way you would use words like height, weight, and hair color to describe a person.) These record flags, by the way, exist only in DV. If you are capturing SD or HD footage, this technique won't work.

When you run Mark > DV Start/Stop Detect, you are telling Final Cut to put a clip marker in the clip everywhere it finds one of those record flags. When this process is done, a marker indicates every time you pushed the record button on your camera during production.

I don't have any long clips with record flags, so rather than create an exercise, I'll just show you how this works, so you can practice on your own tapes. For the sake of this explanation, pretend that MS Brown coat is a long DV clip with record flags indicating the start of multiple different shots.

To run DV Start/Stop Detect, load the clip into the Viewer. Then, choose Mark > DV Start/Stop Detect. In just a few seconds, your entire tape is scanned and every record flag has a marker.

Notice, also, that in the Browser, a small, right-pointing triangle now indicates that the MS Brown coat clip has markers. Twirl down the triangle to view the list of markers.

Here's the neat part: Create a new bin in the Browser and name it, say, MS Brown subclips. Then, drag just the markers from MS Brown coat in the Browser into the MS Brown subclips folder.

Twirl open the folder. Every marker has been converted into a subclip that starts at the marker and ends the frame before the next marker. In other words, you've just created subclips that start when the Record button was pushed and end the frame before the Record button was pushed, again. You've just divided your whole video in separate scenes, where each subclip is a scene.

This is a very powerful way to locate and organize your shotsall using markers, subclips, and DV Start/Stop Detect.

You can test this for yourself by capturing a long tape, containing multiple shots, into Final Cut, loading it into the Viewer, and running Mark > DV Start/Stop Detect.

Very cool. Very fast. Very slick.

Up arrow

Moves playhead back to In of previous clip

Down arrow

Moves playhead forward to In of next clip

Shift+Left arrow

Moves playhead back 1 second

Shift+Right arrow

Moves playhead forward 1 second

Left arrow

Moves playhead back one frame

Right arrow

Moves playhead forward one frame

A

Selects the Arrow tool

Z

Selects the Zoom In tool

ZZ

Selects the Zoom Out tool

Option+click with Zoom tool

Zooms in opposite direction

Shift+click a clip

Selects a range of clips in the sequence

G

Selects the Edit Selection tool

GG

Selects the Group Selection tool

GGG

Selects the Range Selection tool

Cmd+Z

Undos a change

Shift+Cmd+Z

Redos an Undo

Delete

Deletes a selected clip(s) and leaves a gap

Shift+Delete

Deletes a selected clip(s) and removes the gap

Shift+G

Moves playhead to next gap in Timeline

Option+G

Moves playhead to previous gap in Timeline

Option+drag clip

Creates a new video or audio track

Cmd+X

Cuts selected clip(s) to the clipboard

Cmd+C

Copies selected clip(s) to the clipboard

Cmd+V

Creates an Overwrite edit at the playhead from the clipboard

Shift+V

Creates an Insert edit at the playhead from the clipboard

F

Opens a match frame clip in the Viewer to match the Timeline (or vice versa)

Shift+F

Displays the source clip in the Browser for the clip in the Timeline that contains the playhead

X

Marks an In and an Out for the clip on the Timeline that contains the playhead

Option+X

Removes both the In and the Out

HH

Selects the scrolling Hand toolused for viewing thumbnails

M

Creates a marker at the position of playhead

MM

Opens Edit Marker dialog (playhead must be sitting on top of marker)

Shift+M

Goes to next marker

Option+M

Goes to previous marker

Cmd+`

Deletes a marker

Shift+`

Repositions marker (moves downstream only)

Ctrl+`

Deletes all markers

Cmd+U

Creates subclip based on In and Out of a clip