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FINAL CUT PRO X TUTORIAL: WORKING WITH COMPOUND CLIPS


24th
FEB 2015


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Final Cut Pro X tutorial: working with Compound Clips
Compound Clips provide the means to simplify your edit by collapsing many clips into a single clip. These can be used to take a complicated Timeline and to reduce a portion of the Timeline, or all of the Timeline, into a single clip. The Compound Clip can then be positioned and edited like any other clip.
The video tutorial above shows how to create and work with Compound Clips, how useful these are and why you would want to use these.
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