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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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F9 Kicks Off “Five F’s Week”
This week we will focus on a very powerful set of editing shortcuts using the F9 through F12 keys. These keys are among the most important in your shortcut arsenal and while you may already be familiar with some or all of them, the goal this week is to be sure you are forming the [...]
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You Have The Option to Duplicate
As you know, we run the very basic tips on Saturdays, but here’s one that you may not know even if you’ve been using FCP for a while:
Select a clip, sequence or bin in the Browser and hit OPT D to duplicate it. Yes, you might think that it’s actually easier to right-click and select [...]
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An A Shortcut for A Saturday
OK, it’s time for our super-basic Saturday shortcut, so prepare to groan as I insult your intelligence with one of the most basic shortcuts of them all:
As you certainly should know, this is the shortcut for the “Selection Tool” and while I realize most readers of this blog know about this one, I am giving [...]
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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 [...]
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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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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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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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Quickly Extend (or Shorten) a Clip Based on Playhead Position [UPDATED]