Monthly Archives: June 2010

Why Yes, You Certainly Can Nudge Clips in FCP

By Shortcutter | Published: Friday, June 4, 2010
Here’s one of my personal favorites and I use it all the time: When you have a clip selected on the Timeline and you want to nudge it forward or backward just a frame at a time, use the Comma and Period keys. To nudge one second at a time, simply add the SHIFT modifier key [...]
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Control-V for Victory

By Shortcutter | Published: Thursday, June 3, 2010
Perhaps this is a familiar scene in your editing life: You position the playhead at exactly the right spot on the timeline for a cut, then you switch to the Razor Blade tool (hopefully you do that by typing B and not by using the mouse, for God’s sake), then you bring the blade [...]
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Shift-A to Quickly Set In and Out to a Selection

By Shortcutter | Published: Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Have a clip or clips selected on the timeline and want to quickly set in and out-points on the timeline to match? Well, here’s one of my favorite simple shortcuts: SHIFT A This is handy when you need to quickly mark a portion of your timeline for for export or layoff (and is an alternative to [...]
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Play In-to-Out or Just Play-to-Out And Save Time

By Shortcutter | Published: Tuesday, June 1, 2010
When you’re trimming a clip in the Viewer in preparation for dropping it down to the timeline (with F9 or F10, of course), you often want to see how the head (first frames of clip) or tail (last frames of clip) will play. You’ve set in and out-points, but want to see if you’ve found [...]
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