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Monthly Archives: April 2010
Change Clip Speed With Ease
If you have a clip on the timeline and you want to reverse it or change it’s speed, you can easily bring up the “Change Speed” dialogue with CMD J:
I used to find this dialogue a bit clumsy, but with FCP 7, improvements were made that allow you to ripple the edit (handy if you [...]
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A Shining Example of Superb Editing
Not sure if he used FCP or not, but this is one heck of a great piece of editing! Starting only with the existing footage from Kubrick’s classic “The Shining” (link to the actual trailer here), this ingenious editor created a spoof trailer that very effectively depicts the Shining as a light romantic comedy. To [...]
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Create a New Bin
Here’s a super-easy Saturday FCP 101 shortcut that won’t challenge your brain or force you to go to the edit bay to try it out. Create a new bin in the browser with CMD B:
Notice that, once you crate a new bin with CMD B, the name field is highlighted so can name it without [...]
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Remove Those Attributes and Start Over!
You know how to use a shortcut to paste attributes (OPT V), so here’s one for removing attributes: CMD OPT V
As with OPT V, this shortcut is a particular timesaver when you apply it to a group of clips.
Suppose you have color correction in place on all clips in a timeline that is destined for [...]
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Paste Attributes Saves You 3 Precious Seconds Every Time You Use It!
Building on yesterday’s discussion of pasting options, you should be aware that you can also just “paste attributes.”
This means that you can copy (CMD C) a clip and then apply its attributes (filters and motion tab settings) to another clip or clips. Much easier way to bring up the Paste Attributes dialogue box than doing [...]
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The Handy “Paste Insert” Command
When I am working on multiple sequences at the same time–usually preparing different versions of the same basic material, I find that I frequently use copy and paste to move a clip or set of clips from one timeline to another. Another copying scenario might arise when you are adding an overlay or graphic “bug” [...]
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Batch Capture
Following on the heels of a shortcut we discussed earlier (about the Batch Export Queue), you should be aware of the Batch Capture shortcut, CTRL C:
This is the command that brings up the window that allows you capture a series of offline clips which you have selected in the browser. This is handy in two [...]
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Get to the Text Generator Fast
Here’s a quick and dirty, but very useful shortcut for a Monday. Use the basic Text Generator a lot and get tired of accessing it from that pop-up menu in the Viewer? Just hit CTRL X:
Brings it right up. If you want fancy stuff like the scrolling text, you’re still mousing it. By the way, [...]
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Create a New Sequence
Here’s your Saturday basic shortcut: creating a new sequence in the Browser. Make sure your browser has focus (CMD 4) then hit CMD N
This is, of course, the universal Macintosh “create new” command, so nothing too surprising here except that it does not create a new project as you might expect, but a new sequence [...]
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Is This the Most Obscure Keyboard Shortcut?