Final Cut Pro X: Visual QuickStart Guide

16. Compound Clips

In This Chapter

Using Compound Clips

Making Compound Clips

Viewing and Editing the Contents of a Compound Clip

Editing with Compound Clips

Advanced Uses for Compound Clips

Final Cut Pro puts great emphasis on keeping the interface clean and simplified and on trying to keep your workflow similarly streamlined. As you build bigger and more complex projects, you can take advantage of compound clips to keep your Timeline from becoming unwieldy. As you’ll see in the coming pages, compound clips offer a variety of other benefits as well.

Using Compound Clips

A compound clip is simply a single clip object that represents multiple items .

The three selected clips in the top image are replaced by the single compound clip in the ...