Creating subclips manually – Apple Final Cut Express 4 User Manual
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Organizing Footage and Preparing to Edit
How Markers Determine Subclip Durations
When you drag markers out of a clip, a subclip is created for each marker. The duration
of a subclip is determined from one marker to the next. For example, a clip with four
markers produces four subclips. The last subclip created from a marker always contains
the Media End point of the clip from which it was derived.
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.
Subclip 4
Subclip 1
Subclip 2
Subclip 3
Media End
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