Apple Final Cut Pro X (10.0.9) - Manual (Page 257)

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Group clips with compound clips
Compound clips overview
With Final Cut Pro, you can create compound clips, which allow you to group any combination of
clips in the Timeline or the Event Browser and nest clips within other clips.
Compound clips can contain video and audio clip components, clips, and other compound clips.
Effectively, each compound clip can be considered a mini project, with its own distinct project
properties. Compound clips function just like other clips: you can add them to your project, trim
them, retime them, and add effects and transitions. Icons appear on compound clips in the Event
Browser and the Timeline.
Compound clip
icon for a clip in
the Event Browser
Compound clip
icon for a clip
in the Timeline
Compound clips have many uses. You can:
•
Simplify a complicated project by creating a separate compound clip for each major section.
•
Synchronize a video clip with one or more audio clips and then combine the clips into a
compound clip, to avoid inadvertently moving them out of sync.
•
Open any clip, edit its contents in the Timeline, and then close it.
•
Quickly create a compound clip containing the clips in an event, based on the Event Browser
sort order.
•
Use a compound clip to create a section of a project with settings different from those of the
main project.
Advanced editing
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