Final Cut Express crash course

[alphacrust]

Hi Guys,

I'm currently having to give myself a 24hr crash course in FCE.
(if anybody knows any good tutorials - suggestions would be appreciated!)

One of the things I'm up against at the moment is the process of creating a sub-clip.

I was half expecting to:

1. import video into the bin.
2. Double click the footage to transfer it into the play head
3. Set in and out points with the I/O markers under the play head
4. Click on the actual video and drag it back to the bin to create a sub-clip

When I drag the video back into the bin all I appear to get is another copy of the original master clip. No recognition of the in and out points. :-/ Am I missing something obvious ?

Thanks,

Paul.

 

[spinnerlys]

Subclip: Command+U found via Help Menu item.

Btw, have you taken a look at the manual yet?

 

[alphacrust]

Okay, point taken... looking in the help section would have been a good starting place.

So what am I doing if I drag the clip back to the bin then ? Notice if it's dragged to the timeline I get the desired effect, just don't get the copy in the bin. :-/

Cheers,

Paul.

 

[Angelo95210]

I know it might sound obvious, but the FCE manual is really well done. Take the time to read it, it helped me a lot.

 

[spinnerlys]

Okay, point taken... looking in the help section would have been a good starting place.

So what am I doing if I drag the clip back to the bin then ? Notice if it's dragged to the timeline I get the desired effect, just don't get the copy in the bin. :-/

Cheers,

Paul.

Although it may sound like the same step, a subclip is different than what you drag to the timeline. I use Avid Media Composer and I have to hold down the Option/alt key to create a subclip or subsequence, but I can just drag the selected portion into the timeline, but that is due to that being not a subclip.

 

[alphacrust]

I tend to use Edius more than anything, so it's just getting my head around a new way of working. It'll teach me to agree to tutor somebody in a package I don't know.