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Monthly Archives: March 2010
The Universal “Select All” Shortcut
Here’s your super-basic, but essential weekend shortcut tip of the day and this one is also from the “Universal Shortcuts for Everything I Do on My Mac” department. Command A:
When you hit COMMAND A, you select everything. Particularly useful in FCP for when you want to quickly select everything on the timeline at once (and not [...]
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Setting In and Out Quickly
This set of shortcuts, which all work together, is pretty basic, but if you’re not using them for some reason, you absolutley need to start and if you’re an FCP newbie, this is probably one of the most important habits to form early on. Learn it, live it.
The proper workflow for setting up a rough [...]
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A Rather Esoteric Importing Tip
Even a raving shortcut lunatic like myself has a few bad mouse habits and here’s one I’m trying to overcome. Whenever I need to quickly add an asset to a project (maybe a client has just sent a new still photo or logo graphic and I need to pop it in), I tend to mouse [...]
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Setting Pan for Audio
NOTE: This shortcut has been updated.
Every audio clip can be easily adjusted for pan with keyboard shortcuts. Sure beats opening the clip in the Viewer and fussing with that pan slider). When you adjust “pan,” you are determining, for a single channel of audio, how much of the sound comes out of each speaker. If [...]
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Adjust Audio Levels With Ease
NOTE: This shortcut has been updated.
When you are working on a piece that is already laid out in the timeline, there are a couple of very powerful tools to help you get the audio levels where they need to be. The one will will discuss today is CTRL + and - and CTRL [ and [...]
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Switching Between Tabs
OK, so let’s say you’re a true devotee of keyboard shortcuts and you’ve assimilated the useful COMMAND 1 through 4 process for changing window focus. Good for you! It’s usually only a matter of time then, that you’ll want to learn how to switch between tabs on any of these windows (perhaps you have multiple [...]
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FCP’s Amazing Built-In Keyboard Shortcut List!
Wouldn’t it be nice if Final Cut Pro included, right inside the application, a searchable, complete list of all the keyboard shortcuts? Ideally, it would be a small window that you could pop up easily and maybe, in addition to having a search function, it would list all the menus and submenus so you could [...]
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Would You Close That Window, Please?
OK, it’s a super-basic weekend shortcut and one that most people know, but a surprising number, to my observation don’t actually use:
Yep, good old CMD W to close any window. Works universally in FCP too. If you’re not using this in FCP, I’ll bet you might not be using it in your broader Macintosh life [...]
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Easily Move Clips Up or Down From One Track to Another
Say you want to move a clip or group of clips straight up (or down) into another track while retaining timecode position. You might do what I used to do when I started out using FCP: you click and drag the clip while holding the SHIFT Key down. That works OK, but I’ve always found [...]
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