Connecting clips - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

- When music was added to the timeline, we connected it to the primary storyline. The same can be done with video clips or graphic assets we may want to overlay over our existing video. Let's see how we can work with connected clips, and how they different when it comes to trimming and rearranging tasks. In terms of editing clips into our timeline, so far we've inserted and appended them, and we actually connected an audio source, but we haven't connected video. There are several reasons for why we might want to connect video for this particular video project. One is to maybe have some B roll clips over what our subject says, and while she's playing. So let's get that set up. In fact, I'm just going to head over here to another existing clip in my timeline. This shot's seven zero one, and I'm going to press the space bar to play back. - [Man] Go. - These are our kilns, and they work pretty much 24/7. We fire two firings for each piece. Each piece needs to be bisqued, it's called. - [Instructor] So let's just say that I want to add a piece of B roll over top of what she says. I'm going to head over to my B roll keyword collection, and I have the perfect shot for this. In fact one staring straight inside of a kiln here, and I'm going to find the section which we saved earlier in a favorites collection of where the owner lifts the kiln and picks up the objects. This is a perfect shot to connect over what she says, and then we can worry about the timing. So I have that selection of the clip selected. In fact, I can also go over to my hero event, where I have the exact in and out point already referenced, and since I only want to bring in the video of this piece, I want to head down here to these buttons, choose Video Only from that little arrow menu, and then I'm going to choose this lovely Connect button. And you can see here that I've now overlaid this shot here in the Final Cut Pro timeline. Let me move my playhead before that, and I'll press the space bar to play back. - Each piece. Each piece needs to be bisqued, it's called, which is a lower firing, but makes it hard. And then you go to the glazing room, you dip the piece in a glaze, and then we put it back in the kilns for the final firing. - [Man] Go. - [Instructor] So upon looking at this piece, it's a little bit too long at the beginning, of course, but you get the idea of, that the connected clip is now just sitting over top of the interview clip. We could now trim it, and then move it into place, depending on the pacing of our project. Now there's a very important word that I want to mention about connected clips. So our owner opens the lid. - [Woman] We fire two firings for each piece. - Okay I just want to stop that clip there. So in fact, I'm just going to use the trimming tools we've used earlier. I'm on the selection tool, and I'm just clicking and dragging to my playhead to trim this clip quite a bit in terms of its length, and let me head to the B roll keyword collection, see if I can find another shot that I might want to put in here. In fact actually, I have one in my favorites, specifically this shot here of a bucket. I'm just going to grab that, and make a in and out point selection of around two seconds, and since I'm only bringing in video right now, I could just drag this clip, and actually just position it right after my playhead. This is the same thing as pressing that connect button, and notice that the same thing happens in terms of just video comes into the timeline. Why I brought in the second clip, if I play back again. - [Woman] We fire two firings for each piece. Each piece needs to be bisqued, its. - [Instructor] So saying that I want to change the order of these clips, when it comes to connected clips, the only problem is they don't respond the same way that things do on the primary storyline. In fact, I'm kind of just moving this independently, and the shot isn't getting out of the way. I'm not really rearranging these shots as you would in the primary storyline. I can move this anywhere, and a gap is left in its place. It sort of responds like the position tool. But where things get interesting, is your ability to take two connected clips that are side-by-side, head to the Clip Menu and choose Create Storyline. Notice that if I look just above here now, there's a little gray icon that is like a container for these two clips. I can now select one of them, move it earlier, and these two swap out in terms of order. Basically, if you want the same functionality that you have in the primary storyline for connected clips, create a storyline.