
EDITING
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Locating Clips in the Event Library or
on the Hard Drive
When I worked in online edit suites in the 1990s, fi lled with open-reel tape
machines, spinning in sync, with an edit controller and vision mixer to make it all
happen, we used to do a fair bit of match frame editing. This meant you would
mark the “in” point on a source tape, and the exact frame would be spooled to
on the original master tape. It was the quickest way to locate the original media
and also very useful in effects creation.
In Final Cut Pro X, you have two facilities to help you track down media and to do
a match frame edit if you wish. Control-click any clip in ...