How to join or merge clips in Final Cut Pro

If this shortcut to join clips works, it will change your life. Well it’ll change your editing life at least. I’ll show you how to join and merge clips in Final Cut Pro with 3 different techniques and how to split and break apart clips. At the end of the video I’ll show you how to connect clips like a pro and how to edit them without headaches. Shall we?

00:00 - Intro
00:21 - Trim, Join Clips - no shortcut 🙁
01:39 - Join audio clips
02:17 - How to split clips
03:52 - Compound clip
05:43 - Lift from storyline
07:36 - Connection points
09:23 - Outro

Happy editing! Let me know if you need any help or have any questions.

[lea-kc]

Exactly what I needed today, clearly, thoroughly, and succinctly stated and demonstrated. Love this!

[TheFinalCutBro]

Hey Dylan, stellar tutorial as always dude! Just wanted to share, for the benefit of others, you can actually select a split point and just press delete to join clips back together! Saves me countless amounts of time.

Really some awesome tips in here! Loving what you're doing. Keep going!

[imkingbez]

One of the most clutch editing videos out there!!

[PlayHookywithMe]

So useful, I was having these particular issues you mentioned at the end. The tilde key will save me so much aggravation, thank you!

[ImageMaven]

Another great tutorial. Those connected clips always mess me up. Thanks for clarifying and digging into all the ways to deal with them.

[NotYourFriend-YT]

Incredibly direct and clear instructions. This saved my editing life today – thank you Raisins!

[pandamonium]

Needed this! Couldn't figure out how to merge two different clips together for the life of me 😂 Thank you so much for the help!

[frecklefacerunner]

THANK YOU! Very helpful and straight to the point.

[EDCteam]

Спасибо большое ! Очень ценная информация !

[viames]

I can't believe there's no shortcut!

[Dollectable_Dreams]

Great video! Super helpful and rich of information!!

[daniellaguerre]

I'm a beginner on Mac. However you're starting to change my life brother. I need training please because I've barely switched windows to Mac Os. I've received your gift 🎁. Thank you so much 💗. Now, it waiting to me to know how to install them on my Mac and so on....

[majorscalemanagement]

Hi Dylan, not sure what or if I am doing something wrong but I have two video clips from the same exact media source with the correct end and start times, but "Join Clips" is greyed out. The reason there are two clips of this music performance is because the original video file became to large and the camera rolled it over to a new file and I want to remove the very quick blink that appears where it transitions from one clip to the other. Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

[gbmartinz]

Thanks for your informative channel - I like it and use it a lot. For that reason, I'm starting to get very tired of the music in the background - it gradually turns into an itchy sore. I end up paying more attention to the wound than what you want to tell.
Hope for understanding 😊

[cqadams]

how do you share your screen while showing us a tutorial in the editing program?

[Shubham]

The join option is greyed what's the problem?

[generic_official]

What would be an example use case for joining clips? Is it simply to be able to move the joined clips as one clip?

[waynelast]

7:29 SHIFT-COMMAND-G splits the audio from video and puts the audio track down below. The video stays up top and not go to the storyline. However, my left clip and right clips are connected to the storyline clips, which I do NOT want. I am trying to figure out why these connections keep happening without my intent. Im using 10.6.8 ( unintentionally, because I have automatic software updates turned on) . I wonder if it is a) my new updated software or b) the fact my two top clips are connected to the storyline or c) the fact I did not "create a storyline" above the original storyline?

[KylersStudio]

Dylan!! We should work on your audio! Hope you're well!

[waynelast]

6:57 you selected the two top clips, but when you clicked "create storyline" only the 2nd clip went into the storyline. WHY?