Get to Those Sequence Settings Fast

Here’s a relatively easy, but essential shortcut for a Saturday: CMD 0 (that’s a zero) to open the Sequence Settings window:

This one’s so basic that I and a couple of my regular FCP colleagues actually say “could you ‘command zero that’ for me so we can check the codec?” Since FCP 6  came out and the timeline started automatically conforming to the characteristics of the first clip added to it (which means you don’t really need to tweak things via the Sequence Settings window as much any more), most editors tend to use CMD 0 to get a quick look at the sequence settings. Kind of like a “get info” window for the timeline, really.

Hope you’re having a great weekend and tomorrow, for our Sunday entry, we will be featuring the creative work of one of the FCPShortcutter Twitter followers so stay tuned!  This is a new direction we want to take with some of the Sunday posts, so if you’re a regular Shortcutter reader and you have some work of your own you’d like us to feature on the Shorcutter blog, please drop me a line: dave at shortcutter dot com.