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The subclip becomes a normal clip, and now references the entire source media file. The
subclip in the Browser no longer has a subclip icon, but instead a normal clip icon.
Important: When you remove a subclip’s limits, all affiliated subclips also become normal
clips.
Techniques for Breaking Large Clips into Subclips
There are a few ways you can create subclips in Final Cut Pro:
• Create markers in a clip, and then turn them into subclips.
• Create subclips manually, one at a time, by setting In and Out points in the original
clip and choosing Modify > Make Subclip.
With some kinds of video footage (mainly DV), you can also create subclips from the
start/stop data that is created by the camcorder and embedded in the video data. See
“Capturing Video from Tape.”
Turning Markers into Subclips
Once a clip has markers, you can easily turn the markers into subclips. Subclips are defined
from one marker to the next. If there is only one marker, the Out point of the subclip is
determined by the clip Out point. If you double-click a marker in the Browser, it opens a
subclip in the Viewer. For more information, see “Using Markers.”
To turn a clip’s markers into subclips
1 Click a clip’s disclosure triangle in the Browser to reveal its markers.
2 Select the markers in the clip by dragging across all of them at once, or by clicking the
first marker and then Shift-clicking the last marker.
3 Do one of the following:
• Choose Modify > Make Subclip.
• Drag the markers outside of the clip and into the Browser.
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