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Monthly Archives: May 2010
Use SHIFT L With Caution, If Much At All
You can turn off “linking” either by clicking on that little interlocking rings button in the button bar of your Timeline (right next to the Sanpping button) or by hitting SHIFT L
Since mousing over to the tiny linking button is inefficient and there are certainly many times when you want to adjust the in or [...]
Posted in FCP 101 Stuff 1 Comment
Is @rassnapp On to Something About OPTION T?
So yesterday afternoon, I saw one of my Twitter friends, rassnapp tweet the following:
Option + T is quickly gaining on Option + V as my favorite shortcut
I did a spit take and promptly responded with:
You must be doing a lot of keyframing or re-timing (ugh)! I love me some OPT-T too, but I hit OPT-V [...]
Posted in FCP Ninja Level 1 Comment
“Clip Enable” is Cool Enough. Using it to Solo Audio is Ninja-esque
Here’s an interesting pair of shortcuts indeed. As you may already be aware, the “Clip Enable” command is a great way to quickly turn off a clip (disable it) without removing it from your edit. In the case of a video clip, maybe you want to review the underlying material alone or perhaps you are [...]
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Mind The Gap!
Gaps can occur in your timeline for a number of reasons. Perhaps you have just gone through your timeline and cut numerous chunks of extraneous content. If you are in the habit of dragging your clips to the timeline instead of using shortcuts like F10, you can sometimes inadvertently create little one or two frame [...]
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Quickly Extend (or Shorten) a Clip Based on Playhead Position [UPDATED]
Sometimes, the best way to figure out exactly where you want a clip to end is by playing the content and freezing the Playhead at the the precise spot where the vibe is right. When this is the case, the Extend edit shortcut is just the ticket:
You will need to have the edit point you [...]
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Shortcutter Showcase: “Don’t Judge the B-Roll!”
We make a lot of references to B-roll around here and it’s about time we provided our readers with a good source for this essential stuff, so here’s a little message from our new sponsor (and a tip ‘o the hat to Jon Connor at the excellent Canon Fimmakers blog where I first spotted this):
This [...]
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Saturday Fundamental: Use JKL to Scrub Your Clips!
It is surprising to me how many FCP editors I meet who have not actually formed the habit of using J, K and L (known as the “Transport” or “Tape Transport” controls) to navigate backwards and forwards (scrub) in clips.
Most of these slowpokes are inclined to grasp the mouse with one hand while the index [...]
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Five F’s Week Concludes With A Superimposition
The F12 command is an interesting beast indeed. If you have a clip opened in the viewer and hit F12, it will place that clip in the track above a clip in the timeline that your playhead is parked over.
At the most basic level, this means that if you want to superimpose say, a lower [...]
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Fit to Fill is a Little Miracle Worker
Ever have a gap in the timeline that you need to fill with a cutaway shot but the cutaway content won’t quite fit? Well, this is not a situation where you should be futzing around with re-timing via the CMD J shortcut (as useful as that one often is). This is really the perfect time [...]
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Use Those Arrow Keys To Move Around!