From the course: Final Cut Pro X Guru: Advanced Trimming

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Lifting clips from the primary storyline to overlap footage

Lifting clips from the primary storyline to overlap footage - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

From the course: Final Cut Pro X Guru: Advanced Trimming

Start my 1-month free trial

Lifting clips from the primary storyline to overlap footage

“

- Final Cut Pro X allows you to separate clips from the primary storyline to better overlap footage. For example, this could work if you're working on a documentary where you want the b-roll to be above the person being interviewed. Let's take a look at how we can move clips above and edit them. So I'm in the 1.7 keyword collection, and I'm going to double click the project just to open it. Okay, and here is just some footage of a yoga studio, and what I'd like is this third clip here. Rather than play independently, overlap some of this interview footage, so let me just playback what we have. Can see there, I'll hit L to speed that up a bit 'til we get to the interview. - You find a good teacher, they really can incorporate everything that you would want into the yoga class, and so. - [Voiceover] So what I'd like to do is rather than have this completely be silent is to actually just overlap these two clips here. So a way of doing that is to actually lift this up from the primary…

Contents