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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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Copy All Filters From One Clip Back or To The Next Clip
As a preface to today’s shortcut (and to make remembering the keys easier), you might want to review yesterday’s shortcut article which discussed copying Color Corrector filters from a previous clip or to a subsequent clip. Today’s shortcut is very similar but instead of just copying Color Corrector settings, you will be copying all the [...]
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Copy Color Corrector Filters to Other Clips With Ease
When you are working with the 3-Way Color Corrector (as well you should be), you will find that once you have corrrected the color for a particular clip, that same correction will likely work for all the other clips on your timeline that were shot with the same camera in the session (unless the camera [...]
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Setting a “Poster Frame” for Clips and Why You Would Want To
There’s a neat functionality in the Browser that allows you to see “thumbnails” (“poster frames”) for each clip in your Browser and it has a very cool scrubbing feature to boot. To enable this, right-click on any Browser column header and toggle on the “Thumbnails” column and you will now see the thumbnails. Pretty cool, [...]
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A Powerful Set of Ninja Level Shortcuts
In honor of being linked on the venerable FCP Daily site (for which I am very appreciative and humbled), I want to toss out a full-on “ninja level” shortcut today that is worthy of the hardcore FCP Daily readership, so I’m reaching forward in my schedule to share a real gem: setting source destination for [...]
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More Audio Convenience: Setting Pan With Shortcuts
Every audio clip can be easily adjusted for pan with keyboard shortcuts. You can do this either when the clip is on the timeline or when it is open in the View. This sure beats fussing with that pan slider in the viewer, so these are definitely some valuable shortcuts to add to your repertoire.
When [...]
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Super Easy Audio Adjustments!
Whether you are working on a piece that is already laid out in the timeline OR if you have a clip opened in the Viewer, there are a couple of very powerful tools to help you get the audio levels where they need to be. The one will will discuss today is CTRL + and [...]
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Favorites Part 5: A Final Word on Using Favorites Shortcuts
All week, we have been examining the process of saving favorite effects and how keyboard shortcuts can make that process easier. By “effects,” we refer to “transitions,” “filters,” and motion tab settings. There is a whole lot going on here and you may have noticed that not all the processes and shortcuts are easy or [...]
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Favorites Part 4: A Recap of All Favorites Keyboard Shortcuts
As promised all week, I am going to round up and attempt to render much clearer, the various shortcuts related to setting up and using the various Effects Favorites which include Transitions, Filters and Favorite Motions.
Fist of all, let’s recap the shortcuts for setting up favorite transitions and favorite filters. To set a favorite transition, [...]
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The Wonderous Gadget that is the Trim Edit Window