Creating subclips manually, Editing with subclips – Apple Final Cut Express HD User Manual
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The duration of a subclip can also be defined by a marker with extended duration. For
more information about creating markers with duration, see “
Creating Subclips Manually
If you have long clips, you can also break them into subclips manually to help you
manage your footage.
To manually break a clip into subclips:
1
Open the clip in the Viewer.
2
Set In and Out points corresponding to the subclip you want to create.
3
Choose Modify > Make Subclip (or press Command-U).
A subclip appears in the Browser.
Editing With Subclips
You can edit with subclips in the same way as with any other clips. You can even add
markers to subclips and create subclips from those. This is no different than creating
subclips from clips.
Final Cut Express HD also allows you to edit directly with markers, turning them into
subclips when you release them in the Timeline. However, it’s usually best to not do
this. A marker is never a master clip, so subclips created by dragging a marker into a
sequence are independent clips. If you want to edit with subclips, you should convert
markers into subclips first. This maintains a master-affiliate relationship between the
affiliate subclips in a sequence and the master subclip in the Browser, which makes
media management easier.
Subclips defined by
marker boundaries
Original clip
Subclips defined by markers
with extended duration
Original clip
Marker with
extended duration
Marker with
duration of 0:00