Tuesday
Mar022010
Tutorial - Editing B-Roll Faster
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 2:12AM
Everyone has their own workflow and technique when it comes to Final Cut Pro. I will admit that I am pretty much self taught so a lot of what I do is very non-standard but this technique of working with B-Roll works really well and has some nice advantages. You may want to check it out and there is a cool trick thrown in at the end.
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LOL ... I do EXACTLY the same thing, even using tracks of video to indicate levels of preference. Love the trick to delete multiple gaps though. That's a new one for me.
The trick to delete the gaps came out of pure frustration doing pieces where I had 100 clips that I needed to delete the gap... I had noticed the behavior when i was deleting gaps in other instances and thought it would apply here too... Glad you like it.
Wonderful video teaching... thanks for this sharable information...
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this one is simply brilliant.... this is a huge time saver and just eliminates a lot of frustration. Thanks for sharing! Excellent tutorials.
Yea, i'm not sure this is a real popular technique but for me it REALLY works, like I said, I edit pictures... NOT words...
good luck to you.
Very helpful tips, Chris. Thanks!
hi Chris.
heh!,
yeah, i work in a very similar way, with a few elaborations/simplifications that you might like.
selecting the shots:
when i'm culling the material, i go thru the timeline and mark my selected sections with in & outs.
to get that section up onto V2:
Shift i or backspace (to go to the in point)
apple c / apple v (copy paste)
return, (open into viewer),
F12 (SUPERIMPOSE EDIT)
actually i have a macro to do all these in one go.
like you i wind up with a bunch of selects with a lot of air between them.
my method of dealing with that:
1st make sure you have no in/out marks (option x)
then place your playhead at the end of the timeline, or a certain distance beyond that.
select all the V2 clips
drag them up and into the CANVAS window, and drop them into the "Overwrite" drop-zone.
bang! all selects are edited back into the timeline where the playhead is parked:
all bunched up at the end of the timeline IN ONE GO.
then they are ready to copy into a selects sequence if you like,
but more often than not i just work with them at the end of the rushes timeline.
cheers,
nick
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