What is fcpx composite fragment?
With Final Cut Pro, you can create compound clips so that you can group clips in any combination in the Timeline or browser and nest them in other clips.
Composite clips can contain video and audio clip components, clips, and other composite clips. In fact, each composite fragment can be regarded as a small project with its own unique project attributes. Compound clips are similar to other clips: you can add them to your project, trim them, retime them, and add effects and transitions to them. Icons will be displayed on composite clips in the Browser and Timeline.
What's the use of composite fragments?
Simplify complex projects by creating separate composite clips for each major part.
Synchronize a video clip with one or more audio clips, and then combine these clips into a composite clip to avoid accidentally setting them out of sync.
Open any clip, edit its contents in the Timeline, and then close it.
Quickly create a composite clip containing the clips in the event according to the browser sorting order.
Use compound clips to create project voices with different settings from the main project.
Tutorial for using Final Cut Pro compound clips
Tutorial for creating a new compound clip in the Timeline
We create a new project with audio, subtitles and video, as shown in the figure.
If you want to package them all into a video or put them in a folder, we will select them all and right-click to create a new composite clip. The shortcut key is option+G, as shown in the figure.
Pop up the composite fragment window, name it according to your own needs, and click OK, as shown in the figure.
You can see that it has become a video, and a composite clip icon appears on the left side of the video. This video is a composite clip, as shown in the figure.
Also in the material window will appear a composite video, as shown in figure
Double-click to open this video clip, and click the position of the arrow below to return, as shown in the figure below.
Tutorial for Creating a New Composite Clip in the Material Window
First, select a clip and right-click to create a new composite clip, as shown in the figure.
Second, right-click in the blank to create a new composite clip, as shown in the figure.
The following interface pops up, and click Use Custom Settings, as shown in the following figure.
You can set the parameters for creating a new compound clip according to your own needs, as shown in the figure.
The composite clip created by the second method is actually a project.
Similarly, we can also double-click in the material window to open the composite clip, and the clip will also have the icon of the composite clip.
Use effect of composite fragments
Summary:
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For compound clips, the outside is equivalent to a shell, and no matter how you modify it, it will not affect the content inside.
Double-click the open compound clip, which is its ontology. The modification of ontology will affect the compound clip outside.
Only when the body changes the role of the video will it have an impact on the ontology.
Specifically, let's give an example.
We found an effect of a TV set in the 1950s. Drag the effect into a composite clip, and it will become a black and white effect, as shown in the following figure:
At this point, we double-click to open the composite clip, and we find that there is no change, as shown in the figure.
If we modify the ontology, we will find that it has the same effect as the ontology when we return.
For example, we have a movie black effect on the body, as shown in the figure.
Click the arrow to return to the next level, and you will find that the outside has also become a movie black effect, as shown in the figure.
Under what circumstances will it affect the ontology? Is to change the role, which is the only place where the body can affect the ontology.
Right-click the composite clip to assign a video role, as shown in the following figure.
In the video role, which ontology we choose is which color, for example, the ontology is blue now, as shown in the figure.
We choose subtitles in the video role, and this experience turns purple, as shown in the figure.
Note: All video characters will be changed except audio.
Or we can edit the role map.
Click the color, select the desired color, and then click Apply, as shown.
Ontology effect is as follows
Composite fragment duration
The duration of the compound fragment is determined by the ontology.
We see that the duration of the composite clip is 14 seconds, so we can't pull the video, as shown in the figure.
Because our ontology duration is 14 seconds, as shown in the figure.
If we extend the ontology duration to 16 seconds, as shown in the figure.
If you go back outside, it can be extended to 16 seconds, as shown in the figure.
The same operations, such as shortening, deleting and changing the effect of ontology, will affect external editing.
How to delete
Next, let's talk about how to delete a composite clip.
Find the composite clip in the material window, right click >; If the wastebasket is moved, it cannot be deleted, and a warning will pop up, as shown in the figure.
We need to delete the video on the timeline, and then right-click in the material window >; You can delete the wastebasket by moving it.
What should I do if I don't want to delete the whole composite fragment and just want to disassemble it?
Shortcut key: command+Z to undo the operation.
Menu bar fragment > detach fragment item, as shown in the figure.
In this way, the composite fragments are disassembled by us, as shown in the figure.
This leaves only the ontology, so where is the body? You can find the body in the material window.
Composite clip usage scene
When a composite clip can be used as video material, there is a usage scene.
In some cases, some of our clips are key frames or it is limited by resolution.
We can use compound clips to break through his limitations.
For example, we will drag the composite clip in the material to the timeline, as shown.
Take the watermark of a flower with a ruler as an example. We select the watermark and click the change tool, as shown in the figure.
You can find small blue dots, as shown in the figure.
This watermark is in the lower left corner. If we want to move the watermark without affecting the key frames, we need to create a new composite clip.
Select watermark, shortcut key? Option+G creates a new composite fragment called a watermark. Click OK, as shown.
At this time, when we click the change tool, and then move the joystick, we will find that there is no restriction of key frames, and the effect is normal no matter how we move it, as shown in the figure.
Double-click to open the watermark, and you can find that the position of the ontology has not been affected.
That's all the tutorials used by fcpx composite clips. Have you learned?