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Dave Hurley
CTRL K for Setting Keyframes
Here’s a very useful “must memorize” keyframing shortcut of them all: CTRL K
When the Timeline or Canvas has focus and a clip is selected, you can set keyframes for all the basic motion parameters at once by hitting CTL K. You can also use this shortcut in the Viewer.
You might also be aware that, if [...]
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Subclips are Great for Dealing With Long Source Clips
When you do a “capture now” to bring an entire tape into your system and it winds up sitting in your Browser as a single long clip (i.e., camera starts and stops have not broken it into numerous distinct clips), you may find it awkward to work with. Same thing for long source clips you [...]
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Navigate Your Keyframes Within a Clip
If you have laid out several keyframes (maybe for audio levels, opacity, a motion parameter or some filter parameters) on a clip and want to move from keyframe to keyframe in order to make some tweaks, use OPT K (to go to the previous keyframe) or SHIFT K (to go to the next keyframe)
Now before [...]
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The Gain Adjustment Window Rocks
In situations where you cannot adequately adjust the audio levels via the clip overlays–i.e., you can’t raise the levels enough–you should use the handy Gain Adjust dialogue box. (Actually, if you are serious about audio and need to perform a careful audio edit for broadcast, you should probably be working your audio with round trips [...]
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The “SHIFT-Q Lifestyle”
Consider the lowly SHIFT Q shortcut:
You probably know that it brings up the System Settings panel. Big deal, right?
Well, it really is a big deal to me and it’s the first command I hit every single time I open Final Cut Pro. In fact, using the System Settings panel effectively is, for me at least, one [...]
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My Webinar Package 20% OFF For a Very Limited Time!
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If you missed my Keyboard Shortcuts workflows webinar last week, you can now get 20% OFF on it through Tuesday, 8/17/2010 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time). The regular price for this package is $25, so the sale price will be $20 (that’s $5 off).
The package includes:
The complete HD version of the webinar [...]
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Change Duration Great for Stills
The “Duration” dialogue can be called forth by selecting a clip or transition and hitting CTRL D
This one is pretty straightforward in that you type in the new duration (preferably by using timecode entry “shorthand” with numbers and periods to replace sets of zeros, i.e, “3.” for 3 seconds or “1..” for 1 minute), hit [...]
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Gearing Down for Audio Adjustments
If you’ve ever tried making adjustments to the audio levels without knowing about the “Gear Down” modifier key, which happens to be COMMAND, here’s a little helper that’s worth remembering:
When you grab a levels clip overlay line with your Selection Tool (see below) and try to tweak an audio level by just a decibel or [...]
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The Wonderous Gadget that is the Trim Edit Window