Creating subclips manually, Editing with subclips – Apple Final Cut Pro 5 User Manual

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Chapter 2

Creating Subclips

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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 “

Extending a Marker’s

Duration

” on page 67.

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 Pro 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

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